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Old habits are strong and jealous.
Old habits are strong and jealous.
 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. 
 Pursuits become habits.
 [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]  
 Pursuits become habits.
 [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.] 
 We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions, 
and we reap our habits; we read more 
 We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions, 
and we reap our habits; we sow our habits, and we reap our 
characters; we sow our characters, and we reap our destiny. 
Good habits result from resisting temptation.
Good habits result from resisting temptation.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.
 A civil habit
 Oft covers a good man.  
 A civil habit
 Oft covers a good man. 
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits.
Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits.