Saul Bellow Quotes

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

You don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today you will do what you did yesterday, and tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually you will get somewhere.

Consistency is always the best teacher.

I can't leave anywhere without making my bed; it's ingrained.

Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best night cap.

If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.

Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.

It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.

Chyerti—that’s us, demons and devils, small and big—are compulsive. We obsess. It’s our nature. We turn on a track, around and around; we march in step; we act out the same tales, over and over, the same sets of motions, while time piles up like yarn under a wheel. We like patterns. They’re comforting. Sometimes little things change—a car instead of a house, a girl not named Yelena. But it’s no different, not really. Not ever.

We know there's going to be nothing but pain, but we go back again and again.

The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You're going to be dreaming soon.

Habit is, of all the plants of human growth, the one that has the least need of nutritious soil in order to live, and is the first to appear on the most seemingly barren rock.

Consistency is what counts; you have to be able to do things over and over again.

Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there. Make motivation a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip.

Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you.

habit is our idea of eternity.

I play every day. It's like a habit for me now. I just, if I don't play, I kind of miss - something's off.

...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit.

People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.

To succeed, find the right rut and stay with it.

What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.