“You'd think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit!”
Scott Westerfeld (1963) American science fiction writer
“Fight like a man. Habit is overcome by habit.”
Source: The Imitation of Christ
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George Lois (1931) American art director, designer and author
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Variant: Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs one step at a time.
Sarada Devi (1853–1920) Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna
[Swami Aseshananda, Glimpses of a Great Soul; a Portrait of Swami Saradananda, 43]
Nikos Kazantzakis book The Saviors of God
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: Someone within me is struggling to lift a great weight, to cast off the mind and flesh by overcoming habit, laziness, necessity.
I do not know from where he comes or where he goes. I clutch at his onward march in my ephemeral breast, I listen to his panting struggle, I shudder when I touch him.
Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
“How use doth breed a habit in a man!”
William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Valentine, Act V, scene iv.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590–1)
“Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.”
Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein
Act I, sc. iv
Wallenstein (1798), Part II - Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein)
“Only a habit can subdue another habit.”
Og Mandino book The Greatest Salesman in the World
Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World
“It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.”
Raymond Chandler book The Big Sleep
Source: The Big Sleep (1939), Chapter 6
Context: The registration read: Carmen Sternwood, 3765 Alta Brea Crescent, West Hollywood. I went back to my car again and sat and sat. The top dripped on my knees and my stomach burned from the whiskey. No more cars came up the hill. No lights went on in the house before which I was parked. It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.