“One gets a bad habit of being unhappy.”

“So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

“To want your own way is a very bad habit, for you will never get it.”

E. W. Howe (1853–1937) Novelist, magazine and newspaper editor

“Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.”

René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist

“Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.”

Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things

“It's a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break.”

Douglas Preston (1956) American author

“It is by being content that one chooses to live unhappy.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

“People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.”

Richard Russo book Mohawk

“Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.”

Harvey Mackay (1932) American businessman and journalist

“Our habits are our friends. Even our bad habits.”

Georges Bernanos book The Diary of a Country Priest