Quotes About Habits

Successful people have good habits; unsuccessful people have losery habits.

One of the main reasons we fail to stick to new good habits and ditch negative ones is that we focus on changing what we're doing (or not doing) without also making sure that we embrace this habit as a new and valuable part of our identity.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

Man is a mental being, and to know this is the first step on the road to freedom and prosperity, for as long as you believe yourself to be primarily physical, a superior kind of animal, you will remain in bondage—in bondage, that is to say, to your own habits of thought, for there is no other bondage.

Don't be an old dirty leaf, be a neat new leaf if you are an old dirty leaf you can't feed the plant and the plant will throw you from it if you are a neat new leaf you can feed the plant and the plant will keep you with it. The old dirty leaf means bad habits. The neat new leaf means good habits. The plant means every one around you.

Adopt new habits yourself: consolidate your principles by putting them into practice.

Proper preparation for the future consists of forming good personal habits.

We are what we do.

For example, the neurochemicals produced by healthy relationships can help melt pathways for bad habits and solidify new pathways that are more desirable.)

The three S's: shower, shit, and shave—every man could do that in his sleep.

The Christian state," said St. Cornelius, "is not without serious inconveniences for a penguin. In it the birds are obliged to work out their own salvation. How can they succeed? The habits of birds are, in many points, contrary to the commandments of the Church, and the penguins have no reason for changing theirs. I mean that they are not intelligent enough to give up their present habits and assume better.

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

Fai attenzione ai tuoi pensieri, diventano parole. Fai attenzione alle tue parole, diventano azioni. Fai attenzione alle tue azioni, diventano abitudini. Fai attenzione alle tue abitudini, diventano carattere. Fai attenzioni al tuo carattere, diventa il tuo destino.

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

Maintaining a routine with my sleeping habits, even on weekends, has been a constant even when other aspects of life are hectic.

I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.

I think I'm fairly good with money, but I've developed some strange tics - in shops I don't like to go to the counter unless I've got at least two things to buy. If I'm walking around with just one thing in my hand I'll put it back and wait a few weeks because that doesn't seem like a proper purchase.

Cancer is caused by what you do for many, many years, not what you do for a few weeks or months.

You can quit smoking and lose weight at the same time.

I don't think diets work - when you stop, you just put the weight back on.

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.

In TV, I did scripts that were not well-written, and I learned how to make bad material okay. That's a hard thing to do; you can learn bad habits, but you can also learn to find something in anything.

Some of the elements of sleep hygiene are basically the same as good health practices. Nicotine, caffeine, and alcohol all negatively impact sleep, the more so the closer they're consumed to bedtime.

Habits are learned. And children learn their habits by watching what we do, not by listening to what we say. So we have to stop talking and teaching and preaching and just go do.