Quotes About Habits

Don't be handcuffed by bad habits when you hold the key to unlock the greatness inside of you.

Jealousy in any form will cloud thinking and form bad habits. Jealousy is an addiction.

Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

Davison has well stated this point when he rightly warns against the attempt to secure a spiritual end by the adoption of habits, the multiplication of rules, and the observance of external standards, excellent in themselves, but useful only as means subordinate to the Spirit. 1

Tell me what you eat, I'll tell you who you are.

Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are.

Tell me what you eat, and I shall tell you what you are.

Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.

Habits form a second nature.

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Viteza se strecur? pretutindeni, în c?l?torii, în obiceiuri, în mersul istoriei, care dup? cum repeta fiecare, se accelera, în ?tiin??, în mod?, ?i pân? ?i în literatur?.

In the savage horde the most vagabond, as well as in the most civilized nations of Europe, man is only what he is made to be by external circumstances; he is necessarily elevated by his equals; he contracts from them his habits and his wants; his ideas are no longer his own; he enjoys, from the enviable prerogative of his species, a capacity of developing his understanding bu the power of initiation, and the influence of society.

Americans have no past, while Europeans are loaded down by ancient customs, habits, and prejudices that shape their behaviour.

We have stressful habits that stand in the way of our desire for change and leave us feeling empty. We have fast-paced lifestyles filled with technological distractions and oversimplified solutions to complex problems that keep us from what we really need.

I had the worst study habits in the history of college, until I found out what I was doing wrong: highlighting with black magic marker.

And isn't taking a pill much easier than reengineering the way you lead your life?

Our daily words and actions lead to decisions, our decisions create habits, and our habits create our future selves.

The truth is, what you do matters. What you do today matters. What you do every day matters. Successful people just do the things that seem to make no difference in the act of doing them and they do them over and over and over until the compound effect kicks in.

There are two kinds of habits: those that serve you, and those that don't.

You know what you're supposed to eat. We all do. Fresh fruits and vegetables, complex carbs, salads, whole grains, lean meats, more fish and poultry and less beef.… You know it, I know it, we all know it. So why do so many of us still go out and chow down cheeseburgers and fries every day? I'll tell you why: because it won't kill us. Not today.

The single most important thing I can tell you about the Slight Edge is this: it's already working, right now, either for you or against you. So don't wait.

The same activities that take us from failure to survival would also take us from survival to success—if we would just keep doing them.