Habit is everything.

“We are what we repeatedly do.”

- Aristotle

“Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.”

- Nathaniel Emmons

“Men form habits and habits form futures. If you do not deliberately form good habits, then unconsciously you will form bad ones.”

- Albert Gray

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

- Aristotle

“Character is long-standing habit.”

- Plutarch

“Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.”

- Edith Wharton

“Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.”

- Mark Twain

“Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.”

- Yidish proverb

“Habit is more powerful than will. If you get in the habit of painting every day, nothing will keep you from painting.”

-Irwin Greenberg

“The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.”

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either. They keep you.”

- Frank Crane

“Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.”

- Confucius

“If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.”

- Andre Maurois

“Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.”

- Horace Mann

“The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.”

- Leo Aikman

“I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.”

- Pablo Picasso