Quotes about habit

"Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into."

Unknown, Source on habit   

"Practice in time becomes second nature."

Unknown, Source on habit   

"Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually."

Unknown, Source on habit   

"There is an old saying that, you can't kill a frog by dropping him into hot water. As you drop him into the hot water, he reacts so quickly that he immediately jumps out unharmed. But if you put him in cold water and gradually warm it up until it is scalding hot, you have him cooked before he knows it. The encroachment of bad habits in our lives is very much like this."

Unknown, Source on habit   

"There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit."

Unknown, Source on habit   

"It's just as easy to form the habit of succeeding as it is to succumb to the habit of failure. Habits aren't instincts; they're acquired reactions. They don't just happen; they are caused. Once you determine the original cause of a habit, it is within your power either to accept or reject it."

Unknown, Source on habit   

"Trivial things do matter... more people are killed each year by the bite of mosquitoes than are stepped upon by charging elephants."

Unknown, Source on habit   

"As a twig is bent the tree inclines."

Virgil on habit   

"A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune."

Whately, Richard on habit   

"In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit."

Whitehead, Alfred North on habit   

"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."

Woolf, Virginia on habit