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Habit is overcome by habit.
[Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]
Habit is overcome by habit.
[Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit.
[Lat., Quam multa injusta ac prava fiunt moribus!]
How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit.
[Lat., Quam multa injusta ac prava fiunt moribus!]
Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits
Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits
Habits form character and character is destiny.
Habits form character and character is destiny.
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.
Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.