Quotes about Habit

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.

All evils to which so many become addicted begin in the mind and in the way one thinks.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

If you want to break the sin habit, you'd better establish a prayer habit.

I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.

It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.

He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.

It is a hard thing to break through a habit and a yet harder thing to go contrary to our own will. Yet if thou overcome not slight and easy obstacles how wilt thou overcome greater ones Withstand thy will at the beginning and unlearn an evil habit lest it lead thee little by little into worse difficulties. Oh if thou knewest what peace to thyself thy holy life should bring ...and what joy to others methinketh thou wouldst be more zealous for spiritual profit.

Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.