"A quick and easy tip for building habits that last: Pick a standard time and place to do it. It’s easier to wake up knowing you exercise at 4pm, than to decide each time when to fit a habit into your day. If it’s already decided, all you need to do is show up."
"Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits."
"You can eat any dessert you want if you take only 3 bites."
"Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits."
"The purpose of a habit is to remove that action from self-negotiation. You no longer expend energy deciding whether to do it. You just do it. Good habits can range from telling the truth, to flossing."
"Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state."
"Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life."
"The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones."
"Your current habits are perfectly designed to deliver your current results."
"Habits change into character."
"Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character."
"If you are looking for something in your house, and you finally find it, when you're done with it, don't put it back where you found it. Put it back where you first looked for it."
"The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits."
"Most people don’t have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims."
"The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones."
"Building habits in the present helps you to do more of what you want in the future."
"Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit."
"Your actions are a consequence of your thoughts. Your thoughts are a consequence of what you consume. And in the modern age, what you consume is largely a consequence of how you select and refine your social media feed. Choose better inputs. Get better outputs."
"One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living."
"Your habits are often a byproduct of convenience. Humans are wired to seek the path of least resistance, which means the most convenient option is often the one that wins. Make good choices more convenient and bad choices less so. Behavior will improve naturally."
"Times of transition are strenuous, but I love them. They are an opportunity to purge, rethink priorities, and be intentional about new habits. We can make our new normal any way we want."
"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
"Sow a thought and you reap an action; Sow an act and you reap a habit; Sow a habit and you reap a character; Sow a character and you reap a destiny."
"I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life."
"It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a person's life is made up of nothing but the habits they accumulated during the first half. Novel: Demons"
"Avoid hitting the snooze button. That's just training you to oversleep."
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
"Parents should plant deeply the seed of the work ethic into the hearts and habits of their children."
"Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success."
"It is much easier to change how you think by changing your behavior, than it is to change your behavior by changing how you think. Act out the change you seek."
"Fast food chains spend a large amount of marketing to get the attention of children. People form their eating habits as children so they try to nurture clients as youngsters."
"Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being."
"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them."
"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones."