Breaking Bad Habits Quotes

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.

It's unfortunate, you know, that you can't change people's - habits, their personal habits.

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

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

Nothing needs reforming more than someone else’s habit.

I realized that I got problems bigger than anything that can happen in prison. So I started reading books, talking to people who had a head on their shoulders, sold my TV and just got a whole bunch of books.

I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.

Everybody has some kind of addiction. It's about how you get around that addiction. First, you have to break the habit like anything. You have to define the hurdle or the objective.

You can't teach others if you are living the same way.

A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.

A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them fully developed in someone else.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

Once you break a habit into its components, you can fiddle with the gears.

The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit.

Many men and women in the world demonstrate great willpower and self-discipline in overcoming bad habits and the weaknesses of the flesh.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.