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

Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.
Henry Adams

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry B. Adams

Character is long-standing habit.
Plutarch

Character is simply habit long continued.
Plutarch

Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.
Charles Wilson

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Francis Bacon

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.
Joe Eszterhas

Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.
Tallulah Bankhead

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
Rene Descartes

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
William Ralph Inge

Cuban cigars is a big expense because I do smoke a lot of them, eight to 12 a day, so that would be almost as bad as a cocaine habit, a hundred bucks a day.
Kinky Friedman

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
Henry Van Dyke

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
Salvador Dali

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
Gary Ryan Blair

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin Franklin

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
Ernest Dimnet

Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.
Kin Hubbard

Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
Nana Mouskouri

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle