Quotes about Habits

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.

To change a vocabulary is easy; to change external circumstances or our own ingrained habits is hard and tiresome.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day...

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

America is the first great experiment in Protestant social formation. Protestantism in Europe always assumed and depended on the cultural habits that had been created by Catholic Christianity.

Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.

How you start your day is how you live your day. How you live your day is how you live your life.

Rooting out bad habits is not enough. If we merely attack what is wrong, we create a vacuum that will inevitably be filled by some new behavior or addiction that does not shape our worldview according to the gospel. The solution, I believe, is discipleship, the process of becoming more like Christ.

The answer for Christians in the age of outrage is not some silver-bullet study that will give a new piece of knowledge. Rather, it begins with looking at our habits, the things that we love every day through our choices and actions.

90 percent of heart patients who are told to change their lifestyle habits or die, choose death over change.

Humans live on one-quarter of what they eat; on the other three-quarters lives their doctor.

Know the law of human nature: acts produce habits, habits breed dispositions, dispositions form the will, and the rightly-formed will is character.