Habit Quote by Francois Rabelais Download Open image “A habit does not a monk make.” — Francois Rabelais ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Habit Habits Monk
First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
If you become a monk because it's an easy life, because you're going to be fed, and sheltered and people will respect you, then… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
If a monk can overcome two things, he can become free from the world. Bodily ease and vain-glory. — Poemen Copy Share Image
Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he clings neither… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Being a monk was the strangest and most perverted way of life imaginable. Monks spent half their lives putting themselves through pain and discomfort… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
I think it's a meritorious action to become a monk, provided that your motivation is pure. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands. — Benedict of Nursia Copy Share Image
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never take anything… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else.… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions.... Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Habits form and habits grow, Then some time later, habits go.” — Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay Copy Share Image
It is a good practice to write at least on page of mantra daily. Many people get better concentration by writing than by chanting.… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
Thirty days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit - like watching the news… — Matt Cutts Copy Share Image
Working at home is hard. It tends to give you bad habits. It feels more like you're going to work when you get up… — Kate Beaton Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
The DMK and the Communists may have the habit of lying, but I don't come from a family that lies. — Tamilisai Soundararajan Copy Share Image