Habit Quote by Francois Rabelais

I certainly haven't lived the life of a Buddhist monk.

— Burton Cummings

I would not be happy if I had not become a monk.

— Nhat Hanh

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

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

Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

If a monk can overcome two things, he can become free from the world. Bodily ease and vain-glory.

— Poemen

Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.

— Jose Saramago

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

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

“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

I think it's a meritorious action to become a monk, provided that your motivation is pure.

— Tenzin Palmo

Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands.

— Benedict of Nursia