Top 99 Quotes About Habit Change
#1. The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
Charles Duhigg
#2. 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
#3. Once people learned how to believe in something, that skill started spilling over to other parts of their lives, until they started believing they could change. Belief was the ingredient that made a reworked habit loop into a permanent behavior.
Charles Duhigg
#4. Today's satori:
Such a change of mind would
Not exist without
My lifelong habit of having
My mind immersed in blossoms.
Saigyo
#5. I maintain that the biggest challenge in the new millennium could be a change of habit. We could change from a dominating commodity culture into one of true exchange in which we learn from each other in humility and respect. I do think it's possible. But it's up to us.
Luisah Teish
#6. To cure worry, spend fifteen minutes daily filling your mind full of God. Worry is just a very bad mental habit. You can change any habit with God's help.
Norman Vincent Peale
#7. I believe you can never change a habit, or create one, with a word or a piece of chalk. You can talk all day, put all sorts of diagrams on the board, but a habit is not going to change. It's a conditional reflex, created by a repetitive act.
Pete Newell
#8. 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
#9. The Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in the truth.
William Gurnall
#10. Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. 'I want it to be the way it was.' But if you continue the way it was there will be no 'is.'
Robin Williams
#11. We are all creatures of habit, and when we make any change in our daily or weekly routine, we feel it. But soon your workout will become not only a reliable part of your day but a "must" on your to-do list.
Bob Harper
#12. Every morning, introduce one positive thought into your mind. Be persistent with it until it becomes your habit. It will change your life.
Debasish Mridha
#13. Change becomes a habit and habits are hard to change .
Yann Martel
#14. 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
#15. The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.
Winston Churchill
#16. The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die around us, watch the world change and decay ... but no matter the hardship or the pain or the sorrow we suffer, we choose to continue living. Out of sheer habit, I think.
Derek Landy
#18. Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
Woody Guthrie
#19. 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
#20. For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
Charles Duhigg
#21. A rhythm becomes a habit when we can no longer hear the music.
Sharon Weil
#22. I got on the scale and I weighed around 203. I'm only 5'7. I was about to turn 30, and I wasn't active anymore. So I started working with a nutritionist and a trainer. I played basketball twice a week. And soon it all just became a habit for me. I became addicted to something good for a change.
Jerry Ferrara
#23. Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.
Charles Duhigg
#24. Our daily view change habit and give us the pleasure from the Nature.
Jan Jansen
#25. I really like the smell of the tennis balls, the new ones. I don't need to do it, but it's just my habit, what I do on the court when we change for the new tennis balls. I just smell them. Maybe it's for luck. I've been doing it all my life.
Dominika Cibulkova
#26. Change isn't always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.
Bill Crawford
#27. 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
#28. The gap between thought and action, between belief and will, prevents us solving our most pressing individual and societal problems.
Paul Gibbons
#29. Research has shown that it takes 31 days of conscious effort to make or break a habit. That means, if one practices something consistently for 31 days, on the 32nd day it does become a habit. Information has been internalised into behavioural change, which is called transformation.
Shiv Khera
#30. Changing a Habit is Never Difficult.
Difficult is to Address Your Unwillingness to do it
Vineet Raj Kapoor
#31. When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
#32. Science has an unfortunate habit of discovering information politicians don't want to hear, largely because it has some bearing on reality.
Stephen L. Burns
#33. 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
#34. Typically, people who exercise, start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They use their credit cards less frequently and say they feel less stressed. Exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change.
Charles Duhigg
#35. Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked askance at this strange habit of mathematicians, which has changed little from Pythagoras to our day.
Gian-Carlo Rota
#36. We are creatures of habit more than we are creatures of change.
A.J. Darkholme
#38. Little choices determine habit;
Habit carves and molds character
Which makes the big decisions.
Elizabeth George
#39. Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#40. Develop the habit of initiating change. You'll be better prepared for whatever comes your way.
Gina Greenlee
#41. If you're going to change a habit, you must BE the treatment.
Wayne Dyer
#42. Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.
Bertolt Brecht
#43. Seasons change. Though humans are creatures of habit, we can easily adapt if we allow our minds to be like water. The people who have lived there can live elsewhere and will be okay. It's only when we hold onto the past that change becomes painful.
N'Dia Rae
#44. Is there a behavior you would like to make into a habit? Then reinforce it by repeating that behavior at every opportunity. Is there a behavior you wish to change? Then substitute another one and repeat the new one often. In this way you build the kind of life you want ... day by day.
Steve Goodier
#45. The digital detox isn't what you think it is. It's like a diet. Once you go on it, you feel better until you log into social media again. If you want real change, figure out what works best for your lifestyle.
J.R. Rim
#46. Your habit of avoiding mental and emotional discomfort is your #1 reason for your being stuck where you are in life.
Tony Dovale
#47. 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
#48. We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
John Dryden
#49. To change one's life:
a. Start immediately
b. B. Do it flamboyantly
c. No exceptions
Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted.
William James
#50. Over the years I have found that many of the richest people in the world began their lives with the habit of tithing.
Robert Kiyosaki
#51. Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives?
Nicholas Sparks
#52. But to change an old habit, you must address an old craving. You have to keep the same cues and rewards as before, and feed the craving by inserting a new routine.
Charles Duhigg
#53. You make the choice for change more easily and readily each time as your conscious mind begins to reprogram your subconscious mind with a new habit, and the decision is reinforced by that positive change.
Marshall Sylver
#54. How displaced is the sympathy lavished on adolescents. There is a yet more difficult age which comes later, when one has less to hope for and less ability to change, when one has cast the die and has to settle into a chosen life without the consolations of habit or the wisdom of maturity.
Barbara Pym
#55. User habits are a competitive advantage. Products that change customer routines are less susceptible to attacks from other companies.
Nir Eyal
#56. People are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice.
Robin Morgan
#57. If you are not where you want to be DO NOT QUIT, instead reinvent yourself and change your habits.
Eric Thomas
#59. If people say the world we perceive is a 'construct' of our brains, they are saying in effect, that it results from an inveterate habit of thought. Why does it never occur to them that a habit is something you can overcome, if you set about it with enough energy?
Owen Barfield
#60. We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck one rainforest then move, drain one area of resources and move onto another, but climate change is global.
David Attenborough
#61. You can have a similar experience in your own life. You can change, even if you consider yourself a "night person" ... Almost any habit-good or bad-can be set in about twenty-one days. With firm resolve, we can make the needed changes in our lives.
Joe J. Christensen
#62. And once you know a habit exists, you have the responsibility to change it.
Charles Duhigg
#63. People don't like change when it comes to changing their own lifestyle habits.
Jonathan Balcombe
#64. 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
#66. It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.
Andy Stanley
#67. It takes 30 days to change a habit and 90 days to confirm a habit. In 120 days the new habit is a part of you and in 1000 days you have mastered the new habit.
Misty Jordyn
#68. There were other sorts of Christmases besides the one he had made a habit of. And it might do him good to have a change, to see how it was with other people.
Alan Hunter
#69. We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for which habit has not yet substituted its pale fac-similes.
Marcel Proust
#70. To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
Maxwell Maltz
#72. 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
#73. The evidence is clear: If you want to change a habit, you must find an alternative routine, and your odds of success go up dramatically when you commit to changing as part of a group. Belief
Charles Duhigg
#74. The habits that took years to build, do not take a day to change.
Susan Powter
#75. Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car is the sound of toll change in the ashtray. The absence of telltale tobacco stains on your shirt collar tells the tale - you've licked the smoking habit.
Robert Breault
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. To change any behavior we have to slow down and act intentionally rather than from habit and impulse.
Henna Inam
#79. The confirmed stick-in-the-mud will always fall victim to the interventions of other people acting on impulse, because if habit is his religion, then his Satan is change, and in the end, we are all prey to temptation.
Michael Chabon
#80. Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
George Gurdjieff
#81. The trick to overwriting a habit is to look for the pressure point - your reaction to a cue. The only place you need to apply willpower is to change your reaction to the cue.
Barbara Oakley
#83. The virtue and the strength of UWC is that it provides small, but powerful cells of innovation, catalysts for change, breaking barriers of habit and opening broader vistas of experience for both pupils and educationalists.
Nelson Mandela
#84. It occurred to him that he'd made a habit of pissing on the shoes of very powerful beings, but he'd never been a study in social graces. Why change now?
Kevin Lucia
#85. The fact that natural-law theorists derive from the very nature of man a fixed structure of law independent of time and place, or of habit or authority or group norms, makes that law a mighty force for radical change.
Murray Rothbard
#86. Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.
Charles Duhigg
#87. 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
#88. You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.
Abdul Kalam
#89. when you read once, you get the understanding ; when you read twice, you get the second understanding. Don't just read, read!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#90. In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.
Alfred North Whitehead
#91. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
H.G.Wells
#92. Out of old habit, I put my hand on my collarbone, touching a cross that was no longer there.
Don't let them change me, I prayed silently.Let me keep my mind. Let me endure whatever there is to come.
Richelle Mead
#93. This is the only advice I offer you. Pick the small thing, and carry it on. Let it change your life.
Anna White
#94. Times change, and people change with the times - the wise ones do. Wisdom lies in knowing when to remember and when to forget. Consistency is not a habit of mind which it is wise to practice or to expect of the human race.
Ayn Rand
#95. Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.
William Feather
#96. If you believe you can change - if you make it a habit - the change becomes real.
Charles Duhigg
#97. People are always dying. Its a terrible habit they have and nothing you can do will change that.
Sally Green
#98. It's 2009, things change. I'm a creature of habit, so in the beginning I wanted it to be as much like the original as possible, but that's not reality. And reality is, this is a new generation, and people want to see 'Witch Mountain' again.
Kim Richards
#99. It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years for things to cease to have the same meaning as they did before,
Gertrude Stein
