Inspirational Quotes on Habits

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

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

“Spiritual strongholds begin with a thought. One thought becomes a consideration. A consideration develops into an attitude, which leads then to action. Action repeated becomes a habit, and a habit establishes a "power base for the enemy," that is, a stronghold.”

“Look upon pleasures not upon that side that is next the sun, or where they look beauteously, that is, as they come toward you to be enjoyed, for then they paint and smile, and dress themselves up in tinsel, and glass gems, and counterfeit imagery.”

“Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world.”

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

“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.”

“Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.”

“Habit is overcome by habit.”

“Give diligence if you would get assurance.”

“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.”

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

“Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.”

“So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.”

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

“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.”

“It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.”

“Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.”