Quotes about Routine

I used to think I could never bear life if it kept on being the same every day, and I must always be doing things of no consequence and never know anything greater.

Habit is a great deadener.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.

Holy habits are that: the disciplines, the routines by which we stay alive and focused on Him. At first we choose them and carry them out; after a while they are part of who we are. And they carry us.

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ~ Aristotle Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ~ Aristotle

Excellence is not an act, but habit.

I had no friends who would call upon me and break the monotony of my daily existence.

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

The discipline to rise early is not as difficult as the discipline of going to bed. This did not used to be so. Before electricity and radio and television and the Internet, going to bed soon after dark was not so difficult. There was not much to do. Today the strongest allurements to stay up and be entertained are against us. Therefore, the battle against weariness, which makes us drowsy as soon as we open our Bible in the morning, has to be fought in the evening, not just in the morning.