Top 100 Change Habits Quotes
#2. Something dies in us every time we change. To make space for the true, familiar well-worn habits must give way.
Arthur Zajonc
#3. Change was incessant, and change perhaps would never cease. High battlements of thought, habits that had seemed as durable as stone, went down like shadows at the touch of another mind and left a naked sky and fresh stars twinkling in it.
Virginia Woolf
#4. I am a type-2 diabetic, and they took me off medication simply because I ate right and exercised. Diabetes is not like a cancer, where you go in for chemo and radiation. You can change a lot through a basic changing of habits.
Sherri Shepherd
#5. A rhythm becomes a habit when we can no longer hear the music.
Sharon Weil
#6. Many of the habits of dysfunctional families use are not from the lack of love but are the result of fear. Knowing the love-limiting habits and behaviors of dysfunctional families is a wonderful beginning to lower the fear, allowing us to be real, allowing us all to learn how to love better.
David W. Earle
#7. I would rather ride on the far distant coattails of established authors than to follow the inexperienced whose whims change with the direction of the wind.
Peggy Randall-Martin
#8. Bad habits are easy to develop but difficult to live with. Good habits are difficult to develop, but easy to live with. If you are willing to be uncomfortable for little while, so you can press past the initial pain of change, in the long run, your life will be much better.
Joel Osteen
#9. The game had to be played the same way every day or the pieces would fall to the floor, the board would collapse, and the illusion that you were shaping your own life, that you were in control, would break.
Kevin Brockmeier
#10. Convincing a leader of the value of front-line ideas alone is rarely enough for that person to overcome years of entrenched bad habits and to change his management style.
Dean M. Schroeder
#11. If you expect the best, you will be the best. Learn to use one of the most powerful laws in this world; change your mental habits to belief instead of disbelief. Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility.
Norman Vincent Peale
#12. What I've learned from fatherhood is that having a son cannot, did not, change my love for The Bachelor! I thought that having a son would make me grow up when it came to my TV viewing habits, but I love The Bachelor even more after having a child.
Jason Biggs
#13. If price spikes don't change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will gradually encourage the simple daily act of eating more plants and fewer animals.
Mark Bittman
#14. Bad habits have brought me this far: why change such a tried-and-true formula?
Christopher Hitchens
#15. Changing deeply entrenched habits invariably requires help, information, and real support from others. Get a coach, and you'll make change far more likely.
Kerry Patterson
#16. By changing our mindset and habits, we can actually dramatically change the course of life, improve intelligence, productivity, improve the quality of our lives, and improve every single education and business outcome.
Shawn Achor
#17. You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.
Abdul Kalam
#18. Change comes by substituting good habits for less desirable ones. You mold your character and future by good thoughts and acts.
Spencer W. Kimball
#19. We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.
Winston Churchill
#20. People will change their habits quickly IF they have a strong reason for doing so.
Thomas L. Friedman
#21. To change any behavior we have to slow down and act intentionally rather than from habit and impulse.
Henna Inam
#22. As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.
Max McKeown
#23. I think habits and behaviors are very hard to change. And they're even harder when you're back home.
Joseph Dougherty
#24. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.
Arthur M. Schlesinger
#25. How long shall we blunder along without the aid of unpartisan and authoritative scientific assistance in the administration of justice, no one knows; but all fair persons not conventionalized by provincial legal habits of mind ought, I should think, unite to effect some change.
Learned Hand
#26. In the last twenty-five years a change has come over the visual habits of Americans ... From being a wordminded people we are becoming an eyeminded people.
John Dos Passos
#27. Society in general maintains such a vested interested in its cozy habits and solidified belief systems that it had rather die - or kill - than entertain change. Consider how threatened religious fundamentalists of all faiths remain to this day by science in general and Darwin in particular.
Tom Robbins
#28. This was an away-day for the deputy prime minister's staff, who've had a change of responsibilities [on John Prescott's scandalous playing habits ... on the croquet lawn]
Paul Clark
#29. And as long as you're making choices unconsciously, you can't consciously choose to change that ineffective behavior and turn it into productive habits.
Darren Hardy
#30. Virtually everything we do in life is a matter of habit. Habits make us who we are. Why not change your habits to better your life?
Jack LaLanne
#31. Develop the habit of initiating change. You'll be better prepared for whatever comes your way.
Gina Greenlee
#32. To change bad habits, we must study the habits of successful role models.
Jack Canfield
#33. No one in this world can change your habits, but only you can ... so, MOst powerfull person of this world is you..! ... keep that in your mind!
M Fazan Hafeez
#34. If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.
Michael Franti
#35. Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself.
Erin Morgenstern
#36. Through discipline, and determination one can change anything and everything about him - his habits, his outlook on life
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#37. Sitting on the hot seat of change requires much courage, patience, and persistence.
David W. Earle
#38. Habits gradually change the face of one's life as time changes one's physical face; & one does not know it.
Virginia Woolf
#39. Old habits for old people; reinvent yourself while you still can!
T.F. Hodge
#41. It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.
Saint Augustine
#42. Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring.
Rene Magritte
#43. If you tidy up in one shot, rather than little by little, you can dramatically change your mind-set. A change so profound that it touches your emotions will irresistibly affect your way of thinking and your lifestyle habits.
Marie Kondo
#44. People have been predicting the death of television for 20 years now, and so far it's been entirely wrong. But it does seem viewership habits are starting to change.
Henry Blodget
#45. I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.
Paul Theroux
#46. We change from the awakening questing creatures we were once, afire with wonder, and expectancy, and doubt, to persons of opinion and authority, our habits formed, our characters moulded in a pattern
Daphne Du Maurier
#47. If breaking a habit has been hard for you to do, hard for you even to face, then a helping hand is in order.
Kenneth Schwarz
#48. If you change your habits, you change your results.
Butch Bellah
#49. To change our eating habits, we must learn to eat mindfully, being more aware of chewing and tasting what we eat so that the brain can register the incoming nutrients.
John M. Poothullil
#50. Each season I find myself constantly inspired by 'The Biggest Loser' contestants. Their tenacity and willingness to learn new, healthy habits is tremendous and the results speak for themselves. I am honored to be part of such an inspiring program that helps inspire positive change in so many lives.
Curtis Stone
#51. You will find that your comprehension of any book will be enormously increased if you only go to the trouble of finding its important words, identifying their shifting meanings, and coming to terms. Seldom does such a small change in habit have such a large effect.
Mortimer J. Adler
#52. If habits, lifestyles, or personalities are fruits, then the thoughts, words, or actions are seeds. Change your seeds and the fruits will change accordingly. This can a flow like this. Thoughts -> Words -> Actions -> Habits -> Character -> Destiny.
Ilchi Lee
#53. Unfortunately, our existing traditional thinking habits insist that you must attack something and show it to be bad before you can suggest a change. It is more difficult to acknowledge that something is excellent and then to ask for change because although it is excellent, it is not enough.
Edward De Bono
#54. Just try walking very slowly, and you will be surprised - a new quality of awareness starts happening in the body. Eat slowly, and you will be surprised - there is great relaxation. Do everything slowly ... just to change the old pattern, just to come out of old habits.
Rajneesh
#56. However, to modify a habit, you must decide to change it. You must consciously accept the hard work of identifying the cues and rewards that drive the habits' routines, and find alternatives.
Charles Duhigg
#57. The world of man in the world of nature, cannot be change without physical appearance leads to positive possess by the initial human nature and could be change by habits of man.
Syed Afroz Alam
#58. It's unfortunate, you know, that you can't change people's - habits, their personal habits.
Linda McMahon
#59. The whole point about the true unconscious is that it is all the time moving forward, beyond the range of its own fixed laws or habits. It is no good trying to superimpose an ideal nature upon the unconscious.
D.H. Lawrence
#60. It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.
David W. Earle
#61. User habits are a competitive advantage. Products that change customer routines are less susceptible to attacks from other companies.
Nir Eyal
#62. Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but the routines followed are reflexively open to change in the light of the mobile nature of self-identity.
Anthony Giddens
#63. God desires to change us from the inside out. Renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new habits.
Beth Moore
#64. It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patters can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires work and self-understanding of the cravings driving behaviours.
Charles Duhigg
#65. When we make a true commitment to walk in love, it usually causes a huge shift in our lifestyle. Many of our ways - our thoughts, our conversation, our habits - have to change.
Joyce Meyer
#66. Unless the desire to change remains strong, body and mind tend to return to old, familiar patterns. It takes time-from three to six months-for old habits to become obsolete. By the end of that time, you'll have adapted to a new pattern. In a sense, you'll have found a new way of life.
Dan Millman
#67. It's never too late to redefine self-control, to change long-ingrained habits, and to do the work you're capable of.
Seth
#68. People don't like change when it comes to changing their own lifestyle habits.
Jonathan Balcombe
#69. Keystone habits offer what is known within academic literature as "small wins." They help other habits to flourish by creating new structures, and they establish cultures where change becomes contagious.
Charles Duhigg
#70. A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.
Jenny Craig
#71. Are you going to allow the world around you to change while you remain stagnant? Make this the time you throw away old habits that have hindered your happiness and success and finally allow your greatest self to flourish.
Steve Maraboli
#72. The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.
Honore De Balzac
#73. I don't have huge bank accounts. I'd love one. But it wouldn't change much. I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.
John Lydon
#74. How do we change - within moments, the whole form of our habits and dispositions may become alien to us, and we almost cannot remember what we were.
M T Anderson
#75. Change is a pesky notion. For many folks, the biggest challenge in changing their eating habits isn't money, time, or education; it's reframing their connection between food and love.
Kris Carr
#76. The habits that took years to build, do not take a day to change.
Susan Powter
#77. If your habits don't line up with your dream, then you need to either change your habits or change your dream
John C. Maxwell
#78. I don't always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out and I don't. But it's never too late to change old habits.
Florence Griffith Joyner
#79. It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.
Nate Lowman
#80. We need to change our habits of thought, belief, and doing as well as change our systems. Each level reinforces the other: Our habits and beliefs form the psychic substructure of our system, which in turn induces in us the corresponding beliefs and habits.
Charles Eisenstein
#81. Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.
Charles Duhigg
#82. The normal experience of the body and its aging is a conditioned response (a habit of thinking and behavior). By changing your habits of thinking and behavior, you can change the experience of your body and its aging
Deepak Chopra
#83. People who appear to be resisting change may simply be the victim of bad habits. Habit, like gravity, never takes a day off.
Paul Gibbons
#84. Life has a way of taking its toll on the person you thought you were.
A.S.A Harrison
#85. There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.
Carla H. Krueger
#86. These new people had something special: they were not prisoners of their ecological niche, but could change their habits quite easily if prey disappeared, or better opportunities arose.
Matt Ridley
#87. In order to change unwanted habits and actions, it is important to take the time to get to know yourself.
Darren Johnson
#88. You have to actually believe in your capacity to change for habits to permanently change.
Charles Duhigg
#89. People do sometimes change, of course. Habits, allegiances, dreams are all alterable, but only under extraordinary pressure - like great love, fear, grief. More often, people don't change. A girl who never missed a day of work does not suddenly decide to stay home in bed, for no good reason.
Josephine Humphreys
#90. Trying to change old habits is like fighting a war in your head - a draining and exhausting skirmish that makes you wonder at your chance of survival.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#91. In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.
Susan L. Taylor
#92. Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?
Isaac Asimov
#93. He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits:
This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid.
Till in the end he could not change the tragic habits
This formula for drawing comic rabbits made.
Robert Graves
#94. The single most important change you can make in your working habits is to switch to creative work first, reactive work second. This means blocking off a large chunk of time every day for creative work on your own priorities, with the phone and e-mail off.
Jocelyn K. Glei
#95. We change when circumstances necessitate it; we adapt because we have to. The real challenge is to change when circumstances don't demand it at all.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#96. You take your car in for checkups more than you take your body in for checkups. And you change the oil in your car more than you change some of your habits, and some of the things you're putting into your body. So, for heaven's sake, take better care of your body.
Neale Donald Walsch
#97. People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.
Ian K. Smith
#98. 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
#99. Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the othe
Maxwell Maltz
#100. Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
Alfred Hitchcock
