I am your greatest helper or your heaviest burden.
I will push you upward or I will drag you down to failure.
I am completely at your command.
Half the things you do, you might as well turn over to me and I will do them quickly and correctly.
I am easily managed. You must merely be firm with me.
Show me exactly how you want something done and after a few lessons I will do it automatically.
I am the servant of all great people.
Alas, I am the servant of all failures as well.
Those who are great, I have made great.
Those who are failures, I have made failures.
I am not a machine though I work with the precision of a machine, plus the intelligence of a human being.
You may run me for a profit or turn me for ruin, it makes no difference to me.
Take me, train me, be firm with me and I will place the world at your feet.
Be easy with me and I will destroy you.
Who am I?
The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. ~Samuel Johnson
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
A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them. ~Frank A. Clark
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees -
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
~John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, 1681
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~Jim Ryun