Quotes about Habits

It is through our failure to endure the tests that come to us in little things that the habits are molded, the character misshaped; and when the greater tests.

Your wrong habits of eating have so educated your moral powers that you have not the spirit of a Christian. Your temper is perverse, and your treatment of dumb [voiceless] animals is wrong.

Bad habits are more easily formed than good habits, and the bad habits are given up with more difficulty. The natural depravity of the heart accounts for this well-known fact—that it takes far less labor to demoralize the youth, to corrupt their ideas of moral and religious character, than to engraft upon their character the enduring, pure, and uncorrupted habits of righteousness and truth.

Breaking old habits and forming new ones always takes time, but it is worth it in the end.

What you do off the job plays a major role in how far you go on the job. How many good books, do you read each year? How often do you attend workshops? Who do you spend must of your time with?

Anything else?" "He was a man of untidy habits—very untidy and careless. He was left with

Culture drives expectations and beliefs; expectations and beliefs drive behavior; behavior drives habits; and habits create the future. It all starts with culture.

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

What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.

Menschen, die keine Laster haben, haben auch nur wenige Tugenden.

In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.

We can develop the habit of thinking thoughts that are pure, true, and good. We can develop the habits of prayer and meditating on the Scriptures. But these habits will only be developed through frequent repetition.