863 Quotes About Habits

Good tradecraft keeps espionage routine and boring.

According to Maximus the Confessor in "One Hundred Chapters of Love", the key to directing and increasing one's desire for God is the acquisition of the virtues-which, you'll recall, we described above as noncognitive "dispositions" acquired through practices. So how does one acquire such virtues, such dispositions of desire? Through participation in concrete Christian practices like confession.

Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself.

If you continue to dig the same hole in the same place in your life, eventually you will be standing in a grave.

I guess we always find excuses to keep on with our bad habits, don't we?

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.

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

The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.

Habits form and habits grow, Then some time later, habits go.