To fall into a habit is to beg...

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

~Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life~

The unfortunate thing about th...

The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.

~Somerset Maugham~

The second half of a man's lif...

The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.

~Feodor Dostoevski~

The satisfied, the happy, do n...

The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.

~Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life, 1913~

The phrases that men hear or r...

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~

The hard must become habit.&#1...

The hard must become habit.  The habit must become easy.  The easy must become beautiful.

~Doug Henning~

The hard must become habit.&#1...

The hard must become habit.  The habit must become easy.  The easy must become beautiful.

~Doug Henning~

The fox changes his skin but n...

The fox changes his skin but not his habits.

~Suetonius~

The easier it is to do, the ha...

The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.

~Eng's Principle~

The chains of habit are genera...

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

~Samuel Johnson~

The best way to break a bad ha...

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.

~Leo Aikman~

Small habits well pursued beti...

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes

~ Hannah More~

Nothing so needs reforming as ...

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar for 1894~

Motivation is what gets you st...

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

~Jim Ryuh~

Men's natures are alike; it is...

Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.

~Confucius, Analects~

Habits are safer than rules; y...

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either; they keep you.

~Dr. Frank Crane~

Habits are formed by the repet...

Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.

~Mortimer J. Adler~

Habits are at first cobwebs, t...

Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.

~Spanish proverb~

Habit, if not resisted, soon b...

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

~St. Augustine~

Habit with it's iron sinews, c...

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

~Alphonse De Lamartine~