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.

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.

Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits

Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits

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.

A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.

A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

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.]

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never know they have them.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never know they have them.