Quotes about Routine

We are all swept on by the torrent of things grown so familiar that they cast no shade...

Habits gradually change the face of one's life as time changes one's physical face; & one does not know it.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Little Dorrit was late on the Monday morning, for her father slept late, and afterwards there was his breakfast to prepare and his room to arrange. She had no engagement to go out to work, however, and therefore stayed with him until, with Maggy's help, she had put everything right about him, and had seen him off upon his morning walk (of twenty yards or so) to the coffee-house to read the paper.

E. W. Ansted hasn't forgot how to laugh and how to play. His is the heart that never grows old... You must get just enough play-spell mixed up in the work every day, so nothing becomes monotonous.

Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is genuinely personal.

Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is genuinely personal.

The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

I will form good habits and become their slave.