Quotes about habits
Roy Bennett -
Cultivate the habit of setting clearly-defined written goals they are the road maps that guide you to your destination.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
You can live in the body you wish exercise daily.
T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Old habits for old people reinvent yourself while you still can!
Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes
We change when circumstances necessitate it we adapt because we have to. The real challenge is to change when circumstances don’t demand it at all.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Two basic principles reading God’s word and praying regularly.
Maggie Stiefvater - The Raven Boys
Ronan did not smoke he preferred his habits with hangovers.
Frank Crane -
Habits are safer than rules you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.
Charles J. Givens -
Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
Ian K. Smith -
People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.
Alfred Hitchcock -
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
Jenny Craig -
A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.
Ovid -
Habits change into character.
Raymond Loewy -
The American automobile has changed the habits of every member of modern society.
David W. Earle -
It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.
David W. Earle -
Sitting on the hot seat of change requires much courage, patience, and persistence.
Erik Pevernagie -
If our mind remains freeze-framed by inhibiting and hampering habits, in an ever-changing world, we won’t be able to get rid of that weird feeling of not belonging anywhere and not taking part in authentic life challenges. ("Not on the shortlist")
David Amerland - and Make Better Decisions
We cannot learn something new and stick to it without a modular approach to application, positive reinforcement and a real change of environment.
Criss Jami - Healology
I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out.
Charles Eisenstein - The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
From our immersion in scarcity arise the habits of scarcity. From the scarcity of time arises the habit of hurrying. From the scarcity of money comes the habit of greed. From the scarcity of attention comes the habit of showing off. From the scarcity of meaningful labor comes the habit of laziness. From the scarcity of unconditional acceptance comes the habit of manipulation.
Robert M. Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
You can’t really think hard about what you’re doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe they didn’t see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
You must resist negative thoughts, negative criticism and negative influences.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Positive mindset, positive self-image and positive attitude are the best-habits to nurture.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Self-love is self-care.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Dancing daily is a good physical activity.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Relax and rejuvenate your sacred-spirit.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
I can write three hundred and sixty-five grateful thanks. Cultivate the habit to write gratitude daily.
Lukasz Laniecki - You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes
They (parents) have been doing this (imposing their beliefs about life on you) since you were born. That’s more than enough to establish a habit.
Brandon Sanderson - Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens
I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!
Debasish Mridha -
To make it a habit, do it again and again until it becomes a ritual.
Elizabeth George -
Your little choices become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life.
Harrison Ford -
The force is within you, force yourself.
Radin Erus -
When stuck in middle of a choice, we always do what we must. Do things we think is right. We are actually never get stuck. We just love to feel stuck.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Good well-being leads to good working performance.
Erin M. Straza - Comfort Detox: Finding Freedom from Habits That Bind You
Those very habits promoting emotional distance keep us from experiencing the love we so desperately long for and the love we are meant to give away.
Sam Owen - 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
Implementing good relationship habits consistently over time elicits good relationships which in turn feed our thoughts about our own self-worth and capabilities.
Radin Erus -
Get matured or call yourself a grandparent. Age never revised. Childish is not an excuse.
Ngina Otiende - The Wedding Night: Embracing Sexual Intimacy as New Bride
Always remember: marriage is a gift. Allow the revelation to direct your thoughts and habits in marriage.
– Dr Jordan B Peterson -
Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.
Shaun Hick -
It shouldn't take a life-changing event for you to change your life.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
You will find the reality of life by reading.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
The more you read, the more you will love to read.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
I love reading.
Silvica Rosca - Champion's Planner
Habits are tools. They can either propel you toward success or drag you down.
Farshad Asl - and Clarity
Once you accept your circumstances and decide to take action, you can welcome change. Change is an opportunity to form new habits and become who you are meant to be.
Veronica Roth - Divergent
It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
Some kleptomaniacs do not steal things only; they also, while some only, steal lovers.
Christopher Hitchens -
Bad habits have brought me this far: why change such a tried-and-true formula?
Richelle E. Goodrich - Slaying Dragons
Bad habits are demons that often push us into isolation because they know that in our loneliness they stand little chance of being overcome.
Richelle E. Goodrich - Slaying Dragons
Habits grow like dragons if you feed them.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
The state of our surroundings, tells the conditions of our soul.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
The greatest adventure is reading!
Mortimer J. Adler - How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
You will find that your comprehension of any book will be enormously increased if you only go to the trouble of finding its important words, identifying their shifting meanings, and coming to terms. Seldom does such a small change in habit have such a large effect.
Warren Buffett -
I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.
Lucas Remmerswaal - The A-Z of 13 Habits: Inspired by Warren Buffett
Assiduity, it means sit down until you do it. Commit yourself to your work and study.
Danny Dover - The Minimalist Mindset
Habits, not ideas, are the programming language of human beings
Elizabeth Gaskell - Ruth
The traditions of . . . bygone times, even to the smallest social particular, enable one to understand more clearly the circumstances with contributed to the formation of character. The daily life into which people are born, and into which they are absorbed before they are well aware, forms chains which only one in a hundred has moral strength enough to despise, and to break when the right time comes - when an inward necessity for independent individual action arises, which is superior to all ou
Charles Duhigg - The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Reform is usually possible only once a sense of crisis takes hold.... In fact, crises are such valuable opportunities that a wise leader often prolongs a sense of emergency on purpose.
Amber Hurdle - and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Customer service has everything to do with consistency, systems, training, and the habits you and your team create.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Do not use either harsh words or negative words. They only bring sadness and weaken the soul.
Katherine McIntyre - By the Sea
Because if I fell any deeper for the way his eyes crinkled with his smile or his habit of tapping on his nose to emphasize a point, my ship would be sunk.
Donald Pillai -
In order to improve our life for good always remember that regardless of what anyone else says and does, we are ultimately responsible for our own actions. This is the only way to experience victory, joy, and satisfaction every day of our lives.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
A book is a treasure of life.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Be youthful.
Lucas Remmerswaal - 13 Habits.com the Tale of Tortoise Buffett and Trader Hare
Warren Buffett is one of the best learning machines on this earth. The turtles which outrun the hares are learning machines. If you stop learning in this world, the world rushes right by you.
Charles Duhigg - The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits - practical, emotional, and intellectual - systematically organized for our weal or woe, and bearing us irresistibly toward our destiny, whatever the latter may be." - William James
Twyla Tharp - The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
You don’t get lucky without preparation, and there’s no sense in being prepared if you’re not open to the possibility of a glorious accident.
Max McKeown - The Innovation Book: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results
As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.
Elizabeth George -
Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.
Ilchi Lee - Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential
It's a wonderful paradox: only when you have a changeless sense of who you are, can real changes take place. It is the ground of your absolute value and everything that is truly worthwhile.
Erik Pevernagie -
When words have vanished, when daily habits have extinguished emotional exchange, only killing silence remains and indifference takes over. ( "Words had disappeared" )
Edward O. Sisson - The Essentials of Character
In one sense the whole process of development consists of the formation of habits; for knowledge itself, and the powers of thought, as well as the higher elements in the will, all depend upon the establishment of fixed ways of reacting to given stimuli. Consequently, the general laws of habituation underlie the whole of education. But the term habit is more commonly restricted to those established reactions that act with little or no participation of consciousness, or, in other words, mechanical
Charlotte Eriksson - You're Doing Just Fine
I am not sad anymore. I am not weak or tender or quiet like you remember because the second you said those words and closed that door, I sold my soul to the part of myself I had buried in order to love you, to let you touch every inch of my rotten body, for I wanted to be touchable and not so strange. Not so sad and tender, like I’ve always been, they say, so I changed. And then your glances and words throwing knives with no return about my change of habits and ways of living, being, and I nodde
William James -
Now, my dear little girl, you have come to an age when the inward life develops and when some people (and on the whole those who have most of a destiny) find that all is not a bed of roses. Among other things there will be waves of terrible sadness, which last sometimes for days; irritation, insensibility, etc., etc., which taken together form a melancholy. Now, painful as it is, this is sent to us for an enlightenment. It always passes off, and we learn about life from it, and we ought to learn
Jim George -
Eventually your little choices are going to become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
If you do not write the thoughts of the moments, it is lost forever.
Kate Douglas Wiggin - Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful words and deeds, that moment a new standard of conduct is established, and your eager neighbors look to you for a continuous manifestation of the good cheer, the sympathy, the ready wit, the comradeship, or the inspiration, you once showed yourself capable of. Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
You must make time daily to care for your mental, physical, spiritual and emotional health.
Dorothy Dunnett - The Game of Kings
And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.
Alexander Pushkin - Eugene Onegin
Thus heaven's gift to us is this: That habit takes the place of bliss.
Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365
They may not change your skins colour; they may not change your body odour; but once they can change your daily thoughts, they can influence your habits! Beware of evil companions!
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Health is the greatest strength.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Keep your heart always warm.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
You ought to write down the glow of thoughts as it’s ignites.
John Manning - The Disciplined Leader: Keeping the Focus on What Really Matters
Courage is a requirement for facing your fears, doing things differently, and applying any new habits that align with and support your goals.
Stephen R. Covey - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Where westand depends on where we sit.
Constance Chuks Friday -
Despise your weakness, not yourself.
Stephen R. Covey - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
I nurture daily wellness.
Amit Ray -
Cultivate the habit of making aware choice. Your choice makes your destiny. Do not be carried away by the unconscious choices.
Charles F. Glassman - Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Thoughts close more doors then they open. This causes limitation. Action opens more doors then it closes. This results in liberation. I suggest spending less time on trying to change thoughts and more time on the action steps you will take to prove your current thoughts wrong. Once you take consistent, habitual action the thoughts change, spontaneously.
Samuel Smiles - Happy Homes and the Hearts That Make Them
Sow a thought, and you reap an act;Sow an act, and you reap a habit;Sow a habit, and you reap a character;Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
Shannon L. Alder -
We are all a little schizophrenic. Each of us has three different people living inside us every day—who you were, who you are and who you will become. The road to sanity is to recognize those identities, in order to know who you are today.
Beth Garrod - Super Awkward
The majority of boys think the highest form of creativity is weeing a pattern into snow.
Shiv Khera - You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
Our thoughts are causes. You sow a thought, you reap an action. You sow an action, you reap a habit. You sow a habit, you reap a character. You sow a character, you reap a destiny. It all starts with a thought.
Lao Tzu -
Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Michael Bassey Johnson -
When i was a child, i liked tasting any candy i happened to see, but as i grew older, i realized those are a great meal to the worms in my innards. Will you shun old habits or nay? That's the question.
Amit Kalantri -
As you grow old, if you don't earn some money or inspiration out of your hobby, you will stop pursuing your hobby.
Amit Kalantri -
Emotions manipulates the man more than habits do.
Roald Dahl - The Witches
Children should never have baths,’ my grandmother said. ‘It's a dangerous habit.’‘I agree, Grandmamma.