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Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life.
You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life.
Good habits result from resisting temptation.
Good habits result from resisting temptation.
Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.
Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.
Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much read more
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will read more
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.