Blaise Pascal Quotes

Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them.

Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.

Habit is second nature.

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

How use doth breed a habit in a man.

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

Habits are more powerful than fears.

Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.

Nothing is stronger than habit.

I'm doing a lot of speaking and talking about habits, which is this subject that obsesses me. That's a lot of fun.

One study says that 90 percent of our everyday behavior is based on our habits. . . That means how we treat people, how we spend our money, what we watch, what we listen to - 90 percent of the time, we're on autopilot. We do what we've always done.

Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.

Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.

Custom is second nature.

Habit is a second nature.

I am less interested in your chain-smoking; I am more interested in your habit. Any habit that becomes a force, a dominating force over you, is a sin. One should live more in freedom. One should be able to do things not according to habits but according to the situations.

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.

Habit in most cases hardens and encrusts by taking away the keener edge of our sensations: but does it not in others quicken and refine, by giving a mechanical facility and by engrafting an acquired sense?

Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.

Good or bad, habits always deliver results.

Once one habit peels away the others follow it. You have to hold on, or the next thing you'll find yourself parading down the street in your nightdress. Habit is everything.