Good habits result from resisting temptation.
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
Curious things, habits. People themselves never know they have them.
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
The fixity of habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
Old habits are strong and jealous.
Habits are the shorthand of behavior.
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good.
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Good habits result from resisting temptation.
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.