Providentially, learned habits can be unlearned, especially in the context of moral groups.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries.
The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.
In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born.
Good habits are worth being fanatical about.
That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.
In a sense, habits never really disappear. Once formed, they always remain in our neurology.
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.