The Chains Of Habit Quotes

#1. Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#2. They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.

Warren Buffett

#3. The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Samuel Johnson

#4. Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

Tryon Edwards

#5. A habit leads a man so gently in the beginning that he does not perceive he is led - with what silken threads and down what pleasant avenues it leads him! By and by, the soft silk threads become iron chains, and the pleasant avenues Avernus!

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#6. Stripped of the diadem and purple, clothed in a vile habit, and loaded with chains, he was transported in a small boat to the Imperial galley of Heraclius, who reproached him with the crimes of his abominable reign. "Wilt thou govern better?" were the last words of the despair of Phocas.

Edward Gibbon

#7. Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.

Samuel Beckett

#8. The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.

William Hazlitt

#9. Chains of habit are too light to be felt, until they are too heavy to be broken

Anonymous

#10. You can never go wrong betting on Americans' bad eating habits. So I've made a ton investing in all fast food chains, while at the same time investing in Dockers, spandex, Spanx, and sweatpants. Basically, anything with an elastic waistband is a goldmine.

Carol Leifer

#11. He ... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break
chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.

Emily Bronte