Quotes About Habits

The simple things that lead to success are all easy to do. But they're also just as easy not to do.

successful people do: simple things that are easy to do.

Simple daily disciplines—little productive actions, repeated consistently over time—add up to the difference between failure and success.

All you have to do is keep doing the things that got you this far. Which is exactly what 99.9 percent of people don't do.

Every decision you make is a slight edge decision. What you're going to do, how you're going to act, what you're going to read, who you're going to chat with on the phone, what you're going to eat for lunch, who you're going to associate with. How you're going to treat your fellow workers. What you're going to get done today.

But you know what usually happens when you take a vacation to a place that galvanizes you and makes you feel like you're going to change your life. You come home and get right back into your old habits. Meanwhile, a slow fire burns. A

Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.

When it comes to yourself, follow God's formula- deny yourself of overindulgence (Proverbs 23:2 and 30:8), examine yourself for any sinful habits (1 Corinthians 11:28), % exercise yourself to godliness (1 Timothy 4:7), and IK- develop self-control (Galatians 5:23).

the problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure there going to have some pretty annoying virtues

Such a little difference in Susie's ways and ideas would make them all so happy; such a little change in Peter's habits would make his wife's life radiant. But they all lived blindly, on, each day a day of emptiness, each of those precious days, so crowded with opportunities, and possibilities, and unheeded blessings, and presently life would be behind them, and their chances gone for ever.

doctors are like bad habits—once you have shaken them off you discover how much better you are without them; and as for the babies, since they inhabit a garden, prompt bed and the above-mentioned simple remedy have been all that is necessary to keep them robust.

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

A person of her class. A person whose habits and manners stamped out the development of desire and predilection.

One dies the way he lives.

Yet we're so weary of living with the ongoing crisis that we return to the same behaviors and habits—and our adult children have us pegged.

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.

Impulse decisions can often be our downfall when it comes to sticking to good habits. Do something to buy yourself some time when you're experiencing those 'moments' of weakness, and often, the urge will pass. If you keep the cookies in a box in the basement, you might find it's not worth the effort to go get them.

If you know cookies are your weakness, don't even bring them in the house because, like me, you will eat them.

Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.

Style isn't just about what you wear, it's about how you live.

I rarely step on sidewalk cracks. I don't wear a watch. I touch my favorite tree before going on long trips.

I'd always vaguely expected to outgrow my limitations. One day, I'd stop twisting my hair, and wearing running shoes all the time, and eating exactly the same food every day. I'd remember my friends' birthdays, I'd learn Photoshop, I wouldn't let my daughter watch TV during breakfast. I'd read Shakespeare.

I once had a boyfriend who couldn't write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird, because this was a long time ago, and no one I knew ever wore dress shirts, let alone neckties; it was like he was a grown-up reenacter or something.

It's well documented that stop-and-go traffic wears more on a vehicle than consistent-speed highway driving. No matter our driving habits, we all know we must regularly maintain our car's vitals - oil, tires, brakes, etc. Similarly, our brains and bodies perform best with a mindful focus on tasks and a routine maintenance of healthy habits.