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Quotes About Routine

Habits form a second nature.
~ Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.
~ Krista Tippett
Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.
~ Edward Coke
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
~ Marcel Proust
We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.
~ Plutarch
Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.
~ Aristotle
Habit is the deepest law of human nature
~ Thomas Carlyle
Habit is a second nature.
~ Michel de Montaigne
We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.
~ Mark Twain
Custom is almost a second nature.
~ Plutarch
What we call human nature, is actually human habit.
~ Jewel
Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupations is exhilarating and life-giving.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Nobody sane loves working in an office, It's against human nature to be locked up in a cubicle all day long.
~ Peter Clines, 14
A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don't later fray.
~ Marcia Carrington
Only what is seen, appreciated, and loved will be missed in its absence which makes humans creatures of habit
~ Aloysius Jnr
Thank God ever morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.
~ Charles Kingsley
Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. Its about being there at big moments, but its also just the consistency of decision making. And its routine.
~ Sebastian Coe
(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
~ Anne Tyler
I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.
~ Debbie Reynolds
Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day.
~ Florynce Kennedy
The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.
~ Theodosia Garrison
It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings.
~ John Steinbeck, The Pearl