There is an old saying that, you can't kill a frog by dropping him into hot water. As you drop him into the hot water, he reacts so quickly that he immediately jumps out unharmed. But if you put him in cold water and gradually warm it up until it is scalding hot, you have him cooked before he knows it. The encroachment of bad habits in our lives is very much like this.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Habit is a shackle for the free.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.

Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.

The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

The chains of habit are generally too weak to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.

The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.