Quotes about Habit

As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

But every time you yield to the temptation, the easier it becomes to yield again and the more difficult it becomes to resist the next time.

The person who forms the habit of directing his attention to the important facts out of which he is constructing his Temple of Success, thereby provides himself with a power which may be likened to a triphammer which strikes a ten-ton blow as compared to a tack-hammer which strikes a one-pound blow!

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

We substituted good grammar for intellect; we switched habits to simulate maturity; we rearranged lies and called it truth, seeing in the new pattern of an old idea the Revelation and the Word.

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.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

Vice can be learnt, even without a teacher.

You'll break the worry habit the day you decide you can meet and master the worse that can happen to you.

Eating is a ritual, and rituals make things easier.

The words are clear as in the reflection of the world on the water. Therefore write the Word at once, everywhere, from now till your hand is paralyzed, for THERE will be your work for GOD, since you can not work for God in other ways, and would not, & don't know how, or bend that way, from habit, & from talent in the use & signification & arrangement of the Word.