The 7 Habits Quotes

Everybody wants a happy life and a peaceful mind, but we have to produce peace of mind through our own practice.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.

Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions.

Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

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

In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.

The problem is that your brain can't tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it's always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.

How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.

Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

My best advice for mental training is simply to create good habits, in order to build a sense of security and calm around you.

Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits.

The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.

old habits are hard to break, but not impossible!

Your body is malleable; you can sculpt it over time with daily habits of diet and exercise. The law of accommodation reminds us that the body may change slowly, but it will change.

People allow themselves to be slaves of their bad habits and society's bad habits - but they have free will, and if they wish to be free they can.

I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.

But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.

You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them. Read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

Repeated actions are stored as habits. If the repeated actions aren't fundamentally sound, then what comes out in a game can't be sound. What comes out will be bad habits.

Treat them all the same by treating them differently.

The best way to stop a bad habit is never to begin it.

Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.

You gotta eat right, you gotta have healthy habits, you know, and balance out your decadence with a healthy lifestyle during the day.

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.

Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.

To Retain those who are present, be loyal to those who are absent.

Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.

Good or bad, habits always deliver results.

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Long-lasting change that will help you create new habits and actions requires an inside-out approach, as well as two very important tools: the mirror and time.

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

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you

Training a child is exactly like training a puppy; a little heedless inattention and it is out of hand immediately; the great thing is not to let it acquire bad habits that must afterward be broken.