Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.

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.

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.

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.

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

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

Pursuits become habits.
[Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]

Pursuits become habits.
[Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]

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.