William Shakespeare Quotes

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

Nothing is stronger than habit.

They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.

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.

Habits are more powerful than fears.

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

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

Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.

The power of habit is very strong.

Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

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

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Habit has a kind of poetry.

It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.

Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits.

Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.

Old habits die hard, I guess. If you dont kick them, they kick you.

Habit hath so vast a prevalence over the human mind that there is scarce anything too strange or too strong to be asserted of it. The story of the miser who, from long accustoming to cheat others, came at last to cheat himself, and with great delight and triumph picked his own pocket of a guinea to convey to his hoard, is not impossible or improbable.

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

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?

Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.

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

For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.