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.

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...

If you are rude, cynical, habitually-sarcastic or pessimistic, your life options are going to be very limited.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.

Habits of the mind also provide our mental framework – the way we see the world

Virtue is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices requiring effort and concentration to do something which is good and right, but which doesn’t come naturally. And then, on the thousand and...

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one’s orbit.

Thoughts close more doors then they open. This causes limitation. Action opens more doors then it closes. This results in liberation. I suggest spending less time on trying to change thoughts and more time on...

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

The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful words and deeds, that moment a new standard of conduct is established, and...

Courage is a requirement for facing your fears, doing things differently, and applying any new habits that align with and support your goals.

The best gifts anyone can give to themselves are good health habits.

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,...

X is for X-mas Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket, then all your Christmases can come at once!

Sow a thought, and you reap an act;Sow an act, and you reap a habit;Sow a habit, and you reap a character;Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Cultivate the habit of making aware choice. Your choice makes your destiny. Do not be carried away by the unconscious choices.

Cultivate the habit of defining, refining, redefining and redeeming your opportunities. Failure is a temporal event, not a permanent trademark.

Things that we do every day make up who we are and the results we have in our life. Bank accounts collect from constant deposits and good health is achieved or maintained from what we...

Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise.

A character for steadiness once gone is not easily recovered

Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country where so many desire status and wealth, petty annoyances can spark disproportionately violent behaviour. We become frustrated because...

The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need to be remembered; practice forms habits and habits make memory...

Eventually your little choices are going to become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life.

Strange how reluctant I was to acknowledge that control of my fate lay beyond my own conscious will. Habit of a lifetime, I suppose.

He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them...

Habits equal autopilot. Take brushing your teeth for example. Once that becomes a habit, you don’t have to write positive affirmations or remind yourself constantly to brush your teeth. It is simply a habitual part...

Assiduity, it means sit down until you do it. Commit yourself to your work and study.

Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.

Life has a way of taking its toll on the person you thought you were.

Sentence every immoral thought for detention and prosecution. Immorality is a powerful gadget that brings down great monuments of success. Don’t entertain immorality.

A book is a treasure of life.

Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.

Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.

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.

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

Because if I fell any deeper for the way his eyes crinkled with his smile or his habit of tapping on his nose to emphasize a point, my ship would be sunk.

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.

Develop accommodating values and habits. People are scared away from you when you have a value system and habitual actions that accommodate them comfortably.

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...

Warren Buffett is one of the best learning machines on this earth. The turtles which outrun the hares are learning machines. If you stop learning in this world, the world rushes right by you.

Old habits for old people; reinvent yourself!

I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!

Good character going bad is like a beast escaping it’s cage; it will be hard to capture it again!

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.