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.
So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.
Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
There is no influence like the influence of habit.
Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
Habit is ten times nature.
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Habit is stronger than reason.
Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction.
Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them.