Habit

richard-g-scott-large“We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.”
– Richard G. Scott

 
 
 
 
 

448px-Aristotle_Altemps_Inv8575“We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
– Aristotle*

 

 

 

 

Carlos_E__Asay“I would remind you “walking bundles of habits” that there is a relationship between thoughts, actions, habits, and characters. After the language of the Bible we might well say: ‘Thought begat Action; and Action took unto himself Habit; and Character was born of Habit; and Character was expressed through Personality. And, Character and Personality lived after the manner of their parents.'”
– Carlos E. Asay

 

 

 

“We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions, and we reap our habits; we sow our habits, and we reap our characters; we sow our characters, and we reap our destiny.”
– C.A. Hill*

david-a-bednar-large“Knowing that the gospel is true is the essence of a testimony.  Consistently being true to the gospel is the essence of conversion.”
– David A. Bednar

 
 
 
 
 

“Consistency creates a strong work habit and leads to a happy lifestyle.”
– Unknown

 

“The chains of habit are too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken”
– Samuel Johnson*

 

“The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way. Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. The drunken Rip Van Winkle, in Jefferson’s play, excuses himself for every fresh dereliction by saying, “I won’t count this time!” Well! He may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it; but it is being counted none the less. Down among his nerve-cells and fibers the molecules are counting it, registering and storing it up to be used against him when the next temptation comes. Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out. Of course this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so many separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work. Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keeps faithfully busy each hour of the working-day, he may safely leave the final result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning, to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation, in whatever pursuit he may have singled out.”
– William James*