Bad habit Quote by Hosea Ballou

Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.

— Anonymous

In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form…

— Frank Miller

Character is inured habit.

— Plutarch

And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of…

— Dorothy Dunnett

Habits change into character.

— Ovid

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

— W. Somerset Maugham

A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success…

— E. L. Doctorow

Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

— Mason Cooley

One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones.

— Napoleon Hill

Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material.

— Garrison Keillor

Habits are formed, not at one stroke, but gradually and insensibly; so that, unless vigilant care be employed, a great change may come over…

— Richard Whately

Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of…

— Hannah More