habit quotes

A. E. Houseman: 

A tail behind, a trunk in front,
Complete the usual elephant.
The tail in front, the trunk behind,
Is what you very seldom find.

If you for specimens should hunt
With trunks behind and tails in front,
That hunt would occupy you long
The force of habit is so strong.

Annie Dillard: 

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Aristotle: 

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Charles Kettering: 

If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: 

Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to feel the same sentiments formerly associated with that doctrine.

Mark Twain: 

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.

Spanish proverb: 

Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.

Thomas Jefferson: 

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual.