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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken
than mended.
[Lat., Frangas enim, citius quam read more
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken
than mended.
[Lat., Frangas enim, citius quam corrigas quae in pravum
induerunt.]
Habits are the shorthand of behavior.
Habits are the shorthand of behavior.
In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong,
Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.
In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong,
Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook read more
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook than flourishing peopled towns.
Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits.
Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits.
I perceive that the things that we do are silly; but what can one
do? According to men's habits read more
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.]
Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your actions, for they become habits.Watch your read more
Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your actions, for they become habits.Watch your habits, for they become character.Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
