Quotes About Habit

For those who have the habit of prayer, thought is too often a mere alibi, a sly way of deciding to do what one wants to do.  Reason will always obscure what we wish to keep in the shadows.

It is precisely resemblance that reconciles habit and novelty, balancing them out, fusing them at some indefinite point, acting as their horizon line.

They often keep turning the handle of the grinder after the coffee is ground.

Power makes slaves of us all." & "A habit unchecked, becomes a necessity." - Ed and Luran Warren

Modesty is not a bad habit, after all,' the priest commented. 'Alhough humility would be better.

Of course it was still odd, but when everyone does the same odd thing, it seems almost normal.

Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed.

The first thing each morning, and the last thing each night, suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to yourself, silently or aloud, until they are deeply impressed upon your mind.

A writer who takes up journalism abandons the slow tempo of literature for a faster one and the change will do him harm. By degrees the flippancy of journalism will become a habit and the pleasure of being paid on the nail and more especially of being praised on the nail, grow indispensable.

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up the rest.

Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

The moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine.

It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.

Most of life is routine-dull and grubby, but routine is the mountain that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Quality is not an act. It is a habit.

It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.

Habit is stronger than reason.

Character is simply habit long enough continued.

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best.

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.