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Custom, then is the great guide of human life.
David Hume (1711-1776) Scottish Philosopher, historian.
Habit with him was all the test of truth, “ It must be right: I’ve done it from my youth.”
George Crabbe (1754-1832) English. Clergyman, poet.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer
The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
Feodor Dostoievski (1821-1881) Russian novelist.
Choose the best life, habit will make it pleasant.
Epictetus (c.55-c.135) Stoic philosopher.
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
How use doth breed a habit in a man.
Shakespeare.
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and half allowed, steadily gains in strength. At first it may be but as the spider’s web, easily brokens through. But if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
Tryon Edwards.
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
All habits gather, by unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Dryden.
Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.
H.Mann.
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing him.
Burke.
Habit is the deepest law of human nature.
Carlyle.
Habit is either the best of servants, or the worst of masters.
Emmons.
The habit of virtue cannot be formed in the closet; good habits are formed by acts of reason in a preserving struggle with temptation.
B.Gilpin.
In a majority of things habit is a greater plague than ever afflicted Egypt. In religious character it is a grand felicity.
John Foster.
Charity should be the habit of our estimates; kindness of our feelings; benevolence of our affections; cheerfulness of our social intercourse; generosity of our living; improvement of our progress; prayer of our desires; fidelity of our self-examination; being and doing good of our entire life.
When we have practiced good actions awhile, they become easy; when they are easy; we take pleasure in them; when they please us, we do them frequently; and then, by frequency of act, they grow into a habit.
Tillotson.
The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Johnson.
As character to be used for eternity must be formed in time and in good time, so good habits to be used for happiness in this life must be formed early; and then they will be a treasure to be desired in the house of the wise, and an oil of life in their dwellings.
G.B.Cheever.
We are all the time following the influences which will presently be our rulers; we are making our own destiny, we are choosing our habits, our associates, our traits, our homes. In time these acquire a power over us which enslaves our will, and from then we neither will nor can break loose.
H.L. Wayland.
Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.
Horace Bushnell.
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Augustine.
The phrases that man hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
Goethe.
David Hume (1711-1776) Scottish Philosopher, historian.
Habit with him was all the test of truth, “ It must be right: I’ve done it from my youth.”
George Crabbe (1754-1832) English. Clergyman, poet.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer
The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
Feodor Dostoievski (1821-1881) Russian novelist.
Choose the best life, habit will make it pleasant.
Epictetus (c.55-c.135) Stoic philosopher.
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
How use doth breed a habit in a man.
Shakespeare.
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and half allowed, steadily gains in strength. At first it may be but as the spider’s web, easily brokens through. But if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
Tryon Edwards.
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
All habits gather, by unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Dryden.
Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.
H.Mann.
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing him.
Burke.
Habit is the deepest law of human nature.
Carlyle.
Habit is either the best of servants, or the worst of masters.
Emmons.
The habit of virtue cannot be formed in the closet; good habits are formed by acts of reason in a preserving struggle with temptation.
B.Gilpin.
In a majority of things habit is a greater plague than ever afflicted Egypt. In religious character it is a grand felicity.
John Foster.
Charity should be the habit of our estimates; kindness of our feelings; benevolence of our affections; cheerfulness of our social intercourse; generosity of our living; improvement of our progress; prayer of our desires; fidelity of our self-examination; being and doing good of our entire life.
When we have practiced good actions awhile, they become easy; when they are easy; we take pleasure in them; when they please us, we do them frequently; and then, by frequency of act, they grow into a habit.
Tillotson.
The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Johnson.
As character to be used for eternity must be formed in time and in good time, so good habits to be used for happiness in this life must be formed early; and then they will be a treasure to be desired in the house of the wise, and an oil of life in their dwellings.
G.B.Cheever.
We are all the time following the influences which will presently be our rulers; we are making our own destiny, we are choosing our habits, our associates, our traits, our homes. In time these acquire a power over us which enslaves our will, and from then we neither will nor can break loose.
H.L. Wayland.
Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.
Horace Bushnell.
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Augustine.
The phrases that man hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
Goethe.
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