Best 660 quotes in «habits quotes» category

Once you accept your circumstances and decide to take action, you can welcome change. Change is an opportunity to form new habits and become who you are meant to be.

One thing guaranteed in life is that you’ll experience twists and turns, obstacles, roadblocks, and battles.

On habits: The older they are, the bigger they get, the deeper the roots grow, and the harder they are to uproot. Some get so big, with roots so deep, you might hesitate to even try.

One myth that has become established in the self-development arena is that it only takes 21 days to form a new habit. This simply isn’t true in all cases. Sometimes it takes a shorter time, sometimes a longer time, and sometimes old habits are so hard to break that new ones never take hold.

Our lifestyle, our life, the way we think and do things, really is a practice; a daily practice.

One of the greatest obstacles to success is the belief is that your future is predetermined. It isn’t. You decide the outcomes through your decisions and actions.

Others have seen and experienced the good, the bad, and the ugly, and their experiences serve as models you can learn from.

Our thoughts are causes. You sow a thought, you reap an action. You sow an action, you reap a habit. You sow a habit, you reap a character. You sow a character, you reap a destiny. It all starts with a thought.

Perfection is the lowest standard out there because it is unattainable. Be the best you can but don’t try to be someone you were not born to be.

Perfectionism loves isolation. It would prefer you go it alone, convincing you that relying on others is cheating. You should just be strong enough not to need anybody ... Why does it tell you that? Because it's easier to beat one person that it is a team. And most of the worst decisions you made were made alone. That's why.

Personal experience is the slowest way of learning. Combine your personal experience with other people’s experiences.

Positive choices made repeatedly become seemingly automatic.

Positive mindset, positive lifestyle.

Positive mindset, positive self-image and positive attitude are the best-habits to nurture.

Positive thoughts are the birthing ground for making your dreams, goals, and desires come true.

Positive words are well spring of hope and healing.

Positive results will come when you start to replace your negative thoughts and habits with positive ones.

People only keep their eyes open out of habit. And, nothing more.

Psychological studies reveal that 95% of everything we feel, think, do and achieve is a result of a learned habit.

Progress can’t be achieved without investing in and constantly improving yourself.

Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.

Reaction is a habit that comes out naturally

Read the news every morning" or "Call one client each day" are easy to monitor, while vague resolutions such as "Be more informed" or "Cultivate better client relationships" are hard to monitor....Accurate monitoring helps determine whether a habit is worth the time, money, or energy it consumes.

Reasons are the fuel for goal achievement. Without a strong enough reason, it’s impossible to persevere.

Reform is usually possible only once a sense of crisis takes hold.... In fact, crises are such valuable opportunities that a wise leader often prolongs a sense of emergency on purpose.

Regardless of your gender, age, race, disability, colour, ethnic or national origin, how you use time each day decides who you become.

Relax and rejuvenate your sacred-spirit.

Rather than majoring in frivolities, women should be educated in useful subjects and 'be furnished with a stock of ideas, and principles, and qualifications, and habits, ready to be applied and appropriated…' - Hannah More

Religion requires action, labour, diligence; for it does not consist in airy, empty notions and speculations of the head but in the exercise of the mind and heart. Habits must be exerted; grace, improved. Heaven (that is, all uphill) must be strived for and gotten, as it were, by force and victory.

Random acts of kindness don't have to be big or even cost money. It will however make you a better person.

Review how you spend your money and time across all areas of your life, and judge for yourself whether your investment in your mind is right for the future you want.

Remove your electronics from your bedroom. Yes, even your TV and your cell phone! Buy an alarm clock instead. Your bedroom is a sleeping zone, a haven free from distraction. Watching TV, surfing the internet, and using on social media before bed can all interfere with a good night's rest. Studies are showing that the artificial light from these devices can interfere with our natural sleep cycles. We may also become distracted, lose track of time, and stay up later than we intend to. Turn off your TV, and computer at least 30 minutes before bedtime. Put your phone on silent and put it away.

Renew your mind by flooding it with inspiring, empowering, educational and edifying thoughts and words.

Quit thinking and take the plunge. The way to get started is to stop talking and start doing.

Routines and daily habits aren’t restrictive. They provide structure, direction, and opportunities for spontaneity.

Sacrifice doesn’t mean giving up something for nothing; it means giving up one thing for another of a greater perceived value.

Scientists gladly accept any new truth demonstrated by evidence, that is, proved by the very law of the cosmos. Not so with any new conceptions of religion; these are fought by the use of persecution and venom. Many of the current religious beliefs literally carried into practice would stampede humanity into the old jungle ideas and habits.

Sadly, plastering a new coat of ideas on the base of same old weary thoughts and habits is only going to worsen the situation.

Select carefully and continuously review your circle of influence, and be unapologetic about who you exclude.

See, my aim is not to survive but to be thrown to the wolfs with adrenaline still pumping in my veins and hear the gods laughing saying ”that was one hell of a youth” and everything I do I do in order to push my senses and levels of natural ecstasy. I want to be so awake that I pass out by exhaustion every night with a smile on my face and no thoughts of tomorrow because today was all I ever could make of it and I am sick and tired of boredom. Bored people slumbering boring words about bored habits and I want to get out.

Self-discipline is a learned habit that should be developed and continuously worked on through regular application, practice, and repetition.

Self-discipline is a prerequisite to progress.

Self-love is self-care.

She is forever buying things because it is so cheap! That's financial suicide.

Saving is a great habit but without investing and tracking, it just sleeps

She is still forming her conclusions but, above all, is convinced that their actions are borne of instinct: fixed patterns that take them to their source of food, to their safe havens, to their mates, and, ultimately, to their death, since their predators learn these patterns as surely as if they, too, had read Maud’s book.

Silk laughed. "You really should try not to let your knife do all your thinking for you. That's the one quality we find least attractive in our Cherek cousins." "And we find this compulsion to make clever remarks which seems to overwhelm our Drasnian brothers now and then almost equally unattractive," Barak told him coolly.

Significance is about making a difference, and its pursuit should ideally come before the pursuit of success – or at least at the same time.

She tugged the sleeves down over her hands, stretching the fabric until the seams reached her fingernails. Then she locked her fingers around them to ensure they stayed down. Veda fought the urge to rip those sleeves from Coco’s grip and force her to wear them appropriately, or at the very least roll them up so she wouldn’t be tempted to yank at them. She could remember a time when she’d had the same habit, back in middle school. As if hiding her hands behind a thin piece of fabric would protect her from the world.

Self-protection by bravado is a hard habit to break.