Quotes About Habits

I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre... It's funny - I don't have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week.

Clean up a pigsty," she commented one evening, "and if the creatures in it still have pig-minds and pig-desires, soon it will be the same old pigsty again.

Almost everything is easier to get into than it is to get out of.

best way to judge what a man will do is by looking at what he's

Nearly everything is easier to get into than it is to get out of.

Temperament, you'll find, is highly dependent on time of day, weather, frequency of naps, and whether one has had enough to eat. The

Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines

She thought of herself wondering how he was going to breathe in the coffin and marveled at the stubbornness of mental habits.

People often say to a boy when he eats between meals: "It will spoil your dinner." But, piecing between meals never spoils your meals until after you pass forty.

Good Habits are mentors, guardian angels, and servants that regulate your sleep, your work, your thought.

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

But the unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to get out of than bad ones.

Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.

To have nothing the matter with you and no habits is pretty tame, pretty colorless. It is just the way a saint feels, I reckon; it is at least the way he looks. I never could stand a saint.

Thoughts of fear, doubt, and indecision crystallise into weak, unmanly, and irresolute habits, which solidify into circumstances of failure, indigence and slavish dependence.

Change of diet will not help a man who will not change his thoughts. When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food. Clean thoughts make clean habits.

lazy thoughts crystallize into habits of uncleanliness and dishonesty, which solidify into circumstances of foulness and beggary: hateful and condemnatory thoughts crystallize into habits of accusation and violence

selfish thoughts of all kinds crystallize into habits of self-seeking, which solidify into circumstances more or less distressing.

beautiful thoughts of all kinds crystallize into habits of grace and kindliness, which solidify into genial and sunny circumstances: pure thoughts crystallize into habits of temperance and self-control, which solidify into circumstances of repose and peace:

energetic thoughts crystallize into habits of cleanliness and industry, which solidify into circumstances of pleasantness:

gentle and forgiving thoughts crystallize into habits of gentleness, which solidify into protective and preservative circumstances: loving and unselfish thoughts crystallize into habits of self-forgetfulness for others, which solidify into circumstances of sure and abiding prosperity and true riches.

Healthy thoughts become healthy habits. Hold a vision of yourself glowing with energy and vitality, act in harmony with that vision, and you will grow to embody it.

The body is a delicate and plastic instrument, which responds readily to the thoughts by which it is impressed, and habits of thought will produce their own effects, good or bad, upon it.