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

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

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.

Habit is overcome by habit.
[Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]

Habit is overcome by habit.
[Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]

A civil habit
Oft covers a good man.

A civil habit
Oft covers a good man.

First we make our habits, then our habits make us.

First we make our habits, then our habits make us.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

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.]