Agents Quote by William James

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of…

— William James

Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of…

— William James

Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment.

— Samuel Beckett

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

— Maria Edgeworth

Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.

— Arthur Koestler

Habit is overcome by habit.

— Thomas a Kempis

Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if…

— Edith Wharton

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of…

— William James

It takes a habit to replace a habit.

— Napoleon Hill

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if…

— Edith Wharton