Pursuits become habits. [ Ovid ]

Small habits well pursued betimes
May reach the dignity of crimes. [ Hannah More ]

Beware of fixing habits in a child. [ Robert Hall ]

All habits gather by unseen degrees. [ Dryden ]

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees;
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. [ Ovid ]

Vices are often habits rather than passions. [ Rivarol ]

Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables. [ Proverb ]

Pursuits assiduously prosecuted become habits.

It is easier to prevent ill habits than to break them. [ Proverb ]

A large part of Christian virtue consists in right habits. [ Paley ]

Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty. [ Montesquieu ]

Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits. [ Alfred de Musset ]

We underpin our houses with granite; what of our habits and our lives? [ Thoreau ]

Habits leave their impress upon the mind, even after they are given up. [ Spurgeon ]

Youth is eminently the fittest season for establishing habits of industry. [ Dr. Farr ]

Hunger makes everything sweet except itself, for want is the teacher of habits. [ Antiphanes ]

Habits formed in early life and early education press upon us as we grow older. [ U. S. Grant ]

Cultivate habits of neatness, and let your attire be simple, modest, and becoming. [ Mrs. Willard ]

We are never so ridiculous from the habits we have as from those we affect to have. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

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

A poor man who aspires to ape the manners and habits of the rich, is sure to be ruined. [ Phaedrus ]

In the power of fixing the attention, lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. [ Bishop Hall ]

Nature never made an unkind creature; ill-usage and bad habits have deformed a fair and lovely creation. [ Sterne ]

We can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life, but they would assassinate you. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits. [ Amiel ]

Now-a-days friends are no longer found; good faith is dead, envy reigns supreme; and evil habits are ever more extending. [ Sannazaro ]

In modern England the ordinary habits of life and modes of education produce great plainness of mind in middle-aged women. [ John Ruskin ]

Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, and cheerful mind, and active habits, I place early rising, as a means of health and happiness. [ Timothy Flint ]

Be as careful of the books you read as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter. [ Paxton Hood ]

He only is great who has the habits of greatness; who, after performing what none in ten thousand could accomplish, passes on like Samson, and tells neither father nor mother of it. [ Lavater ]

Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them. [ De Quincey ]

Make a point never so clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination. [ Bishop Berkeley ]

We proudly say we are equal. In the largest sense before God we are, but in every other sense we are not. No two persons have the same gifts, the same tastes, the same habits. One must complement the other. It is a mutual life we lead in a mutual world. [ Caroline Hazard ]

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours; and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves, - the creature of habits and infirmities. [ Isaac Disraeli ]

To behold, is not necessary to observe, and the power of comparing and combining is only to be obtained by education. It is much to be regretted that habits of exact observation are not cultivated in our schools; to this deficiency may be traced much of the fallacious reasoning, the false philosophy which prevails. [ Humboldt ]

Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labor. It argues, indeed, no small strength of mind to persevere in the habits of industry, without the pleasure of perceiving those advantages which, like the bands of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation. [ Sir Joshua Reynolds ]

There is no one passion which all mankind so naturally give in to as pride, nor any other passion which appears in such different disguises. It is to be found in all habits and all complexions. Is it not a question whether it does more harm or good in the world, and if there be not such a thing as what we may call a virtuous and laudable pride? [ Steele ]

We have no permanent habits until we are forty. Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business begins. Since forty I have been regular about going to bed and getting up - and that is one of the main things. I have made it a rule to go to bed when there wasn't anybody left to sit up with; and I have made it a rule to get up when I had to. This has resulted in an unswerving regularity of irregularity. It has saved me sound, but it would injure another person. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

I smoke in bed until I have to go to sleep; I wake up in the night, sometimes once, sometimes twice; sometimes three times, and I never waste any of these opportunities to smoke. This habit is so old and dear and precious to me that I would feel as you, sir, would feel if you should lose the only moral you've got - meaning the chairman - if you've got one: I am making no charges: I will grant, here, that I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]