457 Quotes About Habit

The power of attention is much greater than the force of self-restraint.

Life has the habit of throwing curve balls to determine if you are paying attention.

We naturally like what we have been accustomed to, and are attracted towards it. [...] The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.

Willpower is the art of replacing one habit for another.

The foundation of a strong self comes from small acts of daily discipline.

Spontaneities offer one kind of pleasure and taste of sanctity, repetitions another equally pleasurable and holy.

There is something in human pride that can stand big troubles, but we need the supernatural grace and power of God to stand by us in the little things. The tiniest detail in which we obey has all the omnipotent power of the grace of God behind it. When we do our duty, not for duty’s sake, but because we believe that God is engineering our circumstances in that way, then at the very point of our obedience the whole superb grace of God is ours.

Break everything, but don’t break a strengthening habit; develop a strengthening habit and never break it.

He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.