How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook read more

How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook than flourishing peopled towns.

In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong,
Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.

In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong,
Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.

We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions,
and we reap our habits; we read more

We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions,
and we reap our habits; we sow our habits, and we reap our
characters; we sow our characters, and we reap our destiny.

Pursuits become habits.
[Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]

Pursuits become habits.
[Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]

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

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

First we make our habits, then our habits make us.

First we make our habits, then our habits make us.

The fox changes his skin but not his habits.
[Lat., Vulpem pilum mutare, non mores.]

The fox changes his skin but not his habits.
[Lat., Vulpem pilum mutare, non mores.]

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.

Habit is, as it were, a second nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

Habit is, as it were, a second nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]