habits Quotes

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

The difficult part was getting the people to change their habits so that they behaved more like first world citizens, not like third world citizens spitting and littering all over the place.

I'm reaching 87, trying to keep fit, presenting a vigorous figure, and it's an effort, and is it worth the effort? I laugh at myself trying to keep a bold front. It's become my habit. I just carry on.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

I get a lot of credit for comb-overs. But it's not really a comb-over. It's sort of a little bit forward and back. I've combed it the same way for years. Same thing, every time.