Quotes About Habits

Juliet and Romeo be damned, you can't be in love until you've flossed your teeth next to the person at least three hundred times...

When we look back on the decades of our life we see that the seemingly insignificant things we do over and over actually weave the pattern of our lives.

The life of a monk ought to be a continuous Lent. . . . This we can do in a fitting manner by refusing to indulge evil habits and by devoting ourselves to prayer with tears, to reading, to compunction of heart and self-denial" (71). A life of prayer, however, was not to be artificially divorced from a life of service.

We have a natural tendency to remember what we should forget and forget what we should remember. That's where mantras come in. They serve as

God can deliver in a day, no doubt. But you've got to back up that deliverance with daily habits that fortify your newfound freedom. If you don't, it'll be short lived. You'll end up right back where you started

Listen to your body: Are you losing weight, feeling fine, getting results that makee you and your doctor happy? Keep it up. Are you not getting the results you want? Cut back on treats, and eat more plants.

But I really can't stand it when blokes feel the need to comment on your drinking habits. It's rampant, all that malarkey: New Labour trying to keep people alive for ever. I don't see them berating the royals or their backbenchers about having a cig or a large gin at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. If you put it in the context of the current climate, having a few pints and a Benson after work is hardly the worst crime on earth.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?

You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.

Your future is found in your daily routine. Successful people do daily what others do occasionally!

Every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon anything else, future character and conduct depend.

You don't create your future. You create your daily habits, and they create your future.

You can predict a person?s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.

Our Futures are Formed by the Thoughts we Hold Most Often.

There is only one goal. That's to keep working and keep flossing.

Goals are harmful unless they guide you to make specific behaviors easier to do. Don't focus your motivation on doing Behavior X. Instead, focus on making Behavior X easier to do.

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true object of juvenile education, is to provide, against the age of five and twenty, a mind well regulated, active, and prepared to learn. Whatever will inspire habits of industry and observation, will sufficiently answer this purpose.

We can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life but they would assassinate you.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

So many things to think about, so many words to say. So many deeds to be done, so many habits to create. So much character to show, so much love to give. In all of this there is transformation and in all of this I live.