Quote by Jane Austen

“Habits, if not resisted, soon become necessity.”

— Augustine of Hippo

Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.”

— Julia Glass

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

— Saint Augustine

“even reluctant curiosity would give way to habit, and habit to dependency.”

— Edwin G. Burrows

“A habit is something easy to develop. But it takes years to overcome.”

— Wilfred Bostwick

“Without realizing it, I had slowly built a habit: a steady resistance to and dread of boredom.”

— Tish Harrison Warren

“You continue making the gestures commanded by existence for many reasons, the first of which is habit.”

— Albert Camus

Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.

— Ken Blanchard

“Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative, of imagination.”

— Dorothy Dunnett

“Looking back at a repetition of empty days, one sees that monuments have sprung up. Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“The secret is to persist in the method until ‘reasoned, accurate, clear and beneficial’ behaviour becomes habitual.”

— Michael Foley