habits Quotes

I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books. While I'm writing a book, which I probably do two out of every three years, it's like having a second job. I squeeze in the hours when I can.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest - but suffer from a constant strain.

What is once well done is done forever.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.