Inspirational Quotes on Habits

“It is not really a small thing when in small things we resist self.”

“We may feel that a particular habit 'isn't too bad,'but continually giving in to that habit weakens our wills against the onslaughts of temptation from other directions.”

“All habits are bad habits. (...) Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.”

“Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.”

“Habits of thought are not less tyrannical than other habits, and a time comes when return is impossible, even to the strongest will.”

“It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.”

“Lord, make me chaste - but not yet. Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.”

“Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.”

“We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. ”

“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.”

“In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.”

“Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.”

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

“Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.”

“Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.”

“An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons - marriage, or meat, or beer, or cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.”

“Perhaps you have been ensnared by a sinful habit that you will not abandon, and your guilt is so overwhelming you are ashamed to approach Christ. Whatever the reason for your broken intimacy with God, there is good news. Jesus waits to embrace you now in the arms of unconditional, divine love.”

“Manners - the habits of the people - are bred in family and church. Therefore, it isn't an issue of laws but of habits and manners.”

“The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you've made up your mind-jump in.”

“A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.”