We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.

Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.

Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.

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

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

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They read more

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.

Good habits result from resisting temptation.

Good habits result from resisting temptation.

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will read more

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 by the latter.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the read more

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.