Berthold Auerbach Quotes

Experience is the mother of custom.

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

Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

Habit is ten times nature.

I think I was raised by a really good mother.

Change is strong, but habit is strong too; and you cannot change the old for new, like a garment.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

I'm creature of habit.

Pursuits become habits.

Habit has a kind of poetry.

Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.

Habit had made the custom.

Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.

Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life.

Nothing is stronger than habit.

Sometimes I apologize. It started that way and we never did change it.

Habit is formed out of memory... We often shape our present situation according to those habitual memories. Instead of starting fresh, we go back to what we've done in the past... easier for us than fighting our way through foreign territory.

Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom our minds are none the less only too happy to discover at last, for without it, reduced to their own devices, they would be powerless to make any room seem habitable.

The power of habit is very strong.

We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.

Custom is almost a second nature.

Habit is the strongest thing in life.

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.