Quotes about Habit

That we ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of GOD, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed. That we should not wonder if, in the beginning, we often failed in our endeavors, but that at last we should gain a habit, which will naturally produce its acts in us, without our care, and to our exceeding great delight.

That in order to form a habit of conversing with GOD continually, and referring all we do to Him, we must at first apply to Him with some diligence: but that after a little care we should find His love inwardly excite us to it without any difficulty.

For, like his nose, his short, black little pipe was one of the regular features of his face. You would almost as soon have expected him to turn out of his bunk without his nose as without his pipe.

Such, gentlemen, is the inflexibility of sea-usages and the instinctive love of neatness in seamen; some of whom would not willingly drown without first washing their faces.

For, when Stubb dressed, instead of first putting his legs into his trowsers, he put his pipe into his mouth.

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.

Reinforce what you want to see repeated.What gets rewarded gets done.

Consistency is not a habit of mind which it is wise to practice or to expect of the human race.

Forgive me, Dellarobia. It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself.

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ARISTOTLE Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits. "Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny," the maxim goes.