A Quote by Samuel Johnson

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

Samuel Johnson

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Broken Chains Felt Habit Strong Too Until Weak

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Samuel Johnson
English - Writer
September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

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

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

Warren Buffett

It was the peculiar artifice of Habit not to suffer her power to be felt at first. Those whom she led, she had the address of appearing only to attend, but was continually doubling her chains upon her companions; which were so slender in themselves, and so silently fastened, that while the attention was engaged by other objects, they were not easily perceived. Each link grew tighter as it had been longer worn; and when by continual additions they became so heavy as to be felt, they were very frequently too strong to be broken.

Samuel Johnson

But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

Milan Kundera

It’s just like when you’ve got some coffee that’s too black, which means it’s too strong. What you do? You integrate it with cream; you make it weak. If you pour too much cream in, you won’t even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it’ll put you to sleep.

Malcolm X

Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.

C. S. Lewis

I tell myself, 'You're too fast, you're too strong, you're too quick. You can't be broken, you can't be beat. If you can't be broken, you can't be beat.' And I just beat it into my head.

Aljamain Sterling

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination. When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is collapse.

Sun Tzu

There is no sin too great for God's grace. There is no habit too big for his healing. There is no label too strong for his love.

Craig Groeschel

I was too weak to walk. At least, I thought I was too weak. But in truth, I was too weak to try.

Jay Asher

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Abraham Lincoln

God had no children too weak, but a great many too strong to make use of.

Dwight L. Moody

Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.

Roberto Cavalli

Women are all so far Machiavellians that they are never either good or bad by halves; their passions are too strong, and their reason too weak, to do anything with moderation.