"Like, love; but do not make the person an indispensable part of your habits, routines, and daily affairs. It can be relatively easy to forget an individual, but breaking a habit is exceedingly difficult."

"Consuetudo natura potentior est."

"Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny."

"Frangas enim citius quam corrigas quæ in pravum induerunt."

"Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas."

"Morem fecerat usus."

"Abeunt studia in mores."

"Nil consuetudine majus."

"Sow an action, reap a habit."

"Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes."

"Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur."

"Habits form character and character is destiny."

"A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected."

"Clavus clavo pellitur, consuetudo consuetudine vincitur."

"We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions, and we reap our habits; we sow our habits, and we reap our characters; we sow our characters, and we reap our destiny."

"Habit with him was all the test of truth; "It must be right: I've done it from my youth.""

"Consuetude quasi altera natura effici."

"A civil habit Oft covers a good man."

"Being lifted out of your normal routine completely changes your perception of everything. I often think that this time twist is like taking a drug, it alters your consciousness."

"Habits are largely absent from modern social and personality psychology. This is due to outdated perspectives that placed habits in conflict with goals. In modern theorizing, habits are represented in memory as implicit context–response associations, and they guide responding in conjunction with goals. Habits thus have important implications for our field. Emerging research shows that habits are an important mechanism by which people self-regulate and achieve long-term goals. Also, habits change through specific interventions, such as changes in context cues."

"To uproot an old habit is sometimes a more painful thing, and vastly more difficult, than to wrench out a tooth."

"How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns."

"Unwinding a habit that you have allowed to entangle you can be difficult. But the power is in you. Do not despair."

"Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy."

"Addictions come from shortages in infancy. People try to compensate this way. Alcoholism is generally produced from a shortage in mother's milk. And heroin addiction is usually due to a lack of being, the absence of recognition; the drug fills the emptiness of not being loved."

"You get used to everything. No human force, not even fear, is stronger than habit."

"Each year one vicious habit rooted out, In time might make the worst Man good throughout."

"Whereas some ascetics and Brahmins remain addicted to such unedifying conversation as about kings, robbers, ministers, armies, dangers, wars, food, drink, clothes, beds, garlands, perfumes, relatives, carriages, villages, towns and cities, countries, women, heroes, street- and well-gossip, talk of the departed, desultory chat, speculations about land and sea, talk about being and non-being, the ascetic Gotama refrains from such conversation."

"Monks, these two extremes ought not to be practiced by one who has gone forth from the household life. (What are the two?) There is addiction to indulgence of sense-pleasures, which is low, coarse, the way of ordinary people, unworthy, and unprofitable; and there is addiction to self-mortification, which is painful, unworthy, and unprofitable. Avoiding both these extremes, the Tathagata (the Perfect One) has realized the Middle Path; it gives vision, gives knowledge, and leads to calm, to insight, to enlightenment and to Nibbana. And what is that Middle Path realized by the Tathagata...? It is the Noble Eightfold path, and nothing else, namely: right understanding, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness and right concentration."

"HABIT, n. A shackle for the free."

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

"Not for nothing is habit called a second and a kind of manufactured nature."

"Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds."

"Fatetur facinus is qui judicium fugit."

"Multa trepidus solet Detegere vultus."

"How like a mounting devil in the heart Rules the unreined ambition!"

"Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame, A grave to rest in, and a fading name!"

"And mad ambition trumpeteth to all."

"The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition."

"Ambition destroys its possessor."

"Si vis ad summum progredi ab infimo ordire."

"I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, And falls on the other."

"The noble Brutus Hath told you Cæsar was ambitious; If it were so, it was a grievous fault; And grievously hath Cæsar answered it."

"Ambition's debt is paid."

"'Tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend."

"Mark but my fall, and that that ruin'd me. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels; how can man then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by it?"

"Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now, two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough."

"The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream."