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Quotes About Habits

loving and unselfish thoughts crystallize into habits of self-forgetfulness for others, which solidify into circumstances of sure and abiding prosperity and true riches.
~ James Allen
Habits. It's the 5x5 rule. You are not just the average of the five people around you. You're the average of the five habits you do, the things you eat, the ideas you have, the content you consume, etc.
~ James Altucher
Improving (or not improving) 1% a day is not even noticeable. That's why it's so easy for people to say, "Nothing is happening," and inadvertently cost their lives 1% a day. Focus on that 1% improvement and everything changes.
~ James Altucher
For now, the Simple Daily Practice means doing ONE thing every day. Try any one of these things each day: A) Sleep eight hours. B) Eat two meals instead of three. C) No TV. D) No junk food. E) No complaining for one whole day. F) No gossip. G) Return an e-mail from five years ago. H) Express thanks to a friend.
~ James Altucher
You are the average of the 5 things you are reading today.
~ James Altucher
1) Read two hours a day. 2) Write ten ideas a day. By the end of a year, you will have read for almost one thousand hours and written down 3,600 ideas.
~ James Altucher
But the only way to take advantage of that abundance is to learn the skills, the habits, the hacks, the techniques, the tricks, the wonders of how to succeed and accomplish in this new world of innovation and freedom.
~ James Altucher
Coming up with ten ideas a day is like exercise. And exercise makes the idea muscle stronger.
~ James Altucher
The only thing you have control over is your mindset, your habits, and the choices you make internally about how you're going to deal with a situation.
~ James Altucher
I don't know any writers who don't drink.
~ James Baldwin
The white racist has ruled the world for a long time, and the crises we are undergoing now are involved with the fact that the habits of power are not only extremely hard to lose; they are as tenacious as some incurable disease.
~ James Baldwin
Everything in life is miraculous. It rests within the power of each of us to awaken from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness.
~ James Branch Cabell
The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices.
~ Geoff Mulgan
Typically, when there are corporate habits that undermine individuals, it has emerged without any sort of central planning. Nobody sits down and says, 'I'm going to create an evil habit for this corporation.'
~ Charles Duhigg
I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
~ Zach Johnson
There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
It's unfortunate, you know, that you can't change people's - habits, their personal habits.
~ Linda McMahon
Emotions can become habits - she said haltingly as she wiped her eyes. But habits can be changed".
~ Debbie Macomber, Twenty Wishes
Ninety-five per cent of your success or failure will come from your daily habits.
~ Mensah Oteh
Consistency in action is easy once you convert your daily disciplines and activities into habits.
~ Mensah Oteh
Routine ruins the life, variety vitalise the life.
~ Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Knowledge is learning something new everyday. Wisdom is letting go of some bad habits everyday.
~ Farshad Asl
Develop distinct habits of wreaking havoc on any stinking thinking addicted to launching mental missiles aimed at sinking your unique magic.
~ Curtis Tyrone Jones
Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue.
~ Julian Baggini