Quotes about Habits
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of." Bruce Barton said, "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
— Joyce Meyer
Since Jesus went through everything you're going through and more, learn to think like him. Think of your sufferings as a weaning from that old sinful habit of always expecting to get your own way. Then you'll be able to live out your days free to pursue what God wants instead of being tyrannized by what you want. 1 Peter 4:1—2, THE MESSAGE
— Darlene Zschech
The great opposition to reading is what I allow to fill my time instead of reading. To say we have no time to read is not really true; we simply have chosen to use our time for other things, or have allowed our time to be filled to the exclusion of reading. So don't add reading to your to-do list. Just stop doing the things that keep you from doing it. But read.
— James Emery White
Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.
— Victor Hugo
Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.
— GK Chesterton
Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.
— Joyce Meyer
We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models - most specifically by observing how our parents express love for each other day in and day out.
— Josh McDowell
It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.
— Ann Voskamp
As God took me through the journey that became the Bible study Breaking Free, He taught me to look for a common denominator among the things that triggered my destructive habits.
— Beth Moore
God desires to change us from the inside out. Renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new habits.
— Beth Moore
Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
— John Ortberg