Your current habits are perfectly designed to deliver your current results.

Modeling a behavior is 100x stronger than telling someone to act differently. Kids imitate the habits of their parents. Teammates match the competitive energy of one another. Employees learn to manage like their supervisor. Be...

Live with a bias toward action. Ironically, this will teach you patience. When you take action each day, you learn the value of accumulating small improvements over time. You understand how daily habits compound. Be...

An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

Whenever there is a gap between your habits and your goals, your habits will always win.

Good habits stockpile pleasure. Bad habits postpone pain.

Your choices create leverage. Your habits unleash leverage. A good initial choice (like choosing the right thing to work on or the right person to work with) can deliver 100x payoff. However, if you don’t...

You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.

This year, spend less time focusing on outcomes and more time focusing on the habits that precede the results.

We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.

A negative habit is a matter of frequent negative thoughts and beliefs in one’s mind, but never a result of the complexion of one’s skin.

Just do it! First you make your habits, then your habits make you!

I am deep in my willed habits. From the outside, I suppose I look like an unoccupied house with one unconvincing night-light left on. Any burglar could look through my curtains and conclude I am...

Today might be the best chance you have to take action. The longer you wait, the more deeply embedded you get in your current lifestyle. Your habits solidify. Your beliefs harden. You get comfortable. It...

Habits are good if you have the habit of the best.

Old habits die hard. Especially if those old habits involve murder and death.

Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.

As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.

Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world.

You and I have the decision to decide what we are going to be with our life! Or we can let the paradigm control us and march along in lockstep type fashion.

Sitting on the hot seat of change requires much courage, patience, and persistence.

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue.

If you continue to dig the same hole in the same place in your life, eventually you will be standing in a grave.

… there is no quicker way of growing old than undue indulgence in regular habits. Indeed it seems probable that the reason why so many people die sooner than they should is because they have...

A person isn’t an assortment of body parts. A person is a collection of habits and decisions.

I is for Integrity, be honest with yourself and others.

When kids are young, before the age of ten, there is a critical window of opportunity when their habits and motivations can be influenced.

As you grow old, if you don’t earn some money or inspiration out of your hobby, you will stop pursuing your hobby.

To change any behavior we have to slow down and act intentionally rather than from habit and impulse.

Two basic principles; reading God’s word and praying regularly.

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

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking,...

Thus heaven’s gift to us is this: That habit takes the place of bliss.

It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.

I don’t like good habits. They strike me as being so easily broken.

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...

It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules....

Even when he played, he made a business of it.

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

S is for SCARY! Fear is driven out by action! Bad habits are overcome by good habits.

You don’t get lucky without preparation, and there’s no sense in being prepared if you’re not open to the possibility of a glorious accident.

Your greatest moments of challenge are a call to defy your timid habits of safety and rush out into life.

Great habits sharpen our thoughts and make us great.

Everything is an art, which must be mastered.

Ronan did not smoke; he preferred his habits with hangovers.

Now, my dear little girl, you have come to an age when the inward life develops and when some people (and on the whole those who have most of a destiny) find that all is...

Your money habits and investment strategy is not all about what you do, but much about who you are. Become the person it takes to do, succeed, and innovate.

I coiled my empty straw wrapper around like a snake. Then I bit it before it could bite me. My love is as dangerous as my drinking habits.

Acting on our interests refines our understanding of what we are good at and what we value. The experiences we have along the way sometimes introduce us to new values that enhance and enlarge our...