Quotes about Habits

Our task in ourselves and in others is to transform right answers into automatic responses to real-life situations.

We automatically remember what makes a real difference in our life. The secret of the great teacher is to speak words, to foster experiences, that impact the active flow of the hearer's life. That is what Jesus did by the way he taught. He tied his teachings to concrete events that make up the hearers' lives. He aimed his sayings at their hearts and habits as these were revealed in their daily lives.

Disciplines are activities that are in our power and that enable us to do what we cannot do by direct effort.

This is the true situation: nothing has power to tempt me or move me to wrong action that I have not given power by what I permit to be in me. And the most spiritually dangerous things in me are the little habits of thought, feeling, and action that I regard as "normal" because "everyone is like that" and it is "only human.

We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.

Our actions determine our dispositions.

Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.

It's so easy to get caught up in the demands of life. And we all take refuge at times in routines and recliners and 'usual' anything!

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.

Failure always is a blessing when it forces one to acquire knowledge or to build habits that lead to the achievement of one's major purpose in life.