Quotes
Quotes about Habit
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
A civil habit Oft covers a good man.
Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]
Habit with him was all the test of truth; "It must be right: I've done it from my youth."
A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Clavus clavo pellitur, consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]
We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions, and we reap our habits; we sow our habits, and we reap our characters; we sow our characters, and we reap our destiny.
Habits form character and character is destiny.
Habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]
Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes.
Sow an action, reap a habit.
Nothing is stronger than habit. [Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.]
Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Habit had made the custom. [Lat., Morem fecerat usus.]
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended. [Lat., Frangas enim, citius quam corrigas quae in pravum induerunt.]
Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
Habit is stronger than nature. [Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]
How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns.
The fox changes his skin but not his habits. [Lat., Vulpem pilum mutare, non mores.]
Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
I perceive that the things that we do are silly; but what can one do? According to men's habits and dispositions, so one must yield to them. [Lat., Inepta haec esse, nos quae facimus sentio; Verum quid facias? ut homo est, ita morem geras.]
How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit. [Lat., Quam multa injusta ac prava fiunt moribus!]
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.
Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
