Favorite Quotations Habit, 2 What You Think of Me Is None of My Business

"Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last."~ Chinese Proverb

Judith Levin

Habit has a kind of poetry. ~ Simone de Beauvoir

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. ~ Warren Buffet

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Habit is the deepest law of human nature. ~ Thomas Carlyle

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. ~ St Augustine of Hippo

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. ~ Samuel Johnson

The skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. ~ Virginia Woolf

Bad habits are like chains that are too light to feel until they are too heavy to carry. ~ Warren Buffet

You cannot make a crab walk straight. ~ Aristophanes, The Acharnians

Habits are funny things. What's funny, or rather tragic, is that bad habits are so predictable and avoidable. Despite this, there are people by the millions who insist on acquiring habits that are bad, expensive, and create problems. The habit they weren't going to get, got them! ~ Zig Ziglar

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it. ~ Horace Mann

Get punctual, bring energy and creativity to your work, and stay with a project until it's completed (and then double-check the results). These habits will make you indispensable. ~ Bill O’Reilly, O'Reilly Factor

Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love. ~ Elizabeth Bowen

No matter who you are, we're creatures of habit. The better your habits are, the better they will be in pressure situations. ~ Wayne Gretzky

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. ~ Francis Bacon

This is not something we do once or twice. Interrupting our destructive habits and awakening our heart is the work of a lifetime. ~ Pema Chödrön

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