Quotes about Routine

Discipline is most important, and without it no serious meditation will ever be possible. But it should be one's own discipline, not a routine mechanically imposed from the outside.

The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary everyday routine.

The whole business was so completely unthinkable that my mind, like almost all the other minds that were in the same situation, simply stopped trying to cope with it, and refixed its focus on the ordinary routine of life.

Ironically, it seems that it is by the means of seemingly perfunctory daily rituals and routines that we enhance the personal relationships that nourish and sustain us.

The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.

As Billy Graham has often said regarding early mornings, "No Bread, no bread." In my life, it is my goal to have a daily quiet time, exercise physically every day (even when traveling) and to read something to refresh my mind and help me to grow in knowledge.

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

I like fabrics, colors, makeup, and the routine of putting myself together every morning, even though I spend most of my time locked away in the attic writing. "No one sees me, but I see myself," my mother would comment philosophically

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

Habit is habit, and not to be thrown out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.