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 the standard and others will raise their standards.

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 impatient with your actions. Be patient with your results.

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 current habits are perfectly designed to deliver your current results.

Emotions manipulates the man more than habits do.

Develop the habit of initiating change. You’ll be better prepared for whatever comes your way.

If you observe nature daily, it brings harmony with you and God.

Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.

Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things like oranges and wholemeal bread or if they even, like the writer of the letter to the New Statesman, saved on fuel and ate their carrots raw? Yes, it would, but the point is that no ordinary human being is ever going...

Habits of action cultivated early in life lay the foundation for unique skill sets able to carve a path beyond the mundane and into the relevant.

Oh, people get used to so many things,” said Vadesh, “if only they give them selves a chance.

I think that there are excellent and poor thinking habits just as there are healthy and unhealthy eating habits; and when a man really knows how to think, you cannot necessarily assert that he thinks too much in a strictly negative connotation. Perhaps this is in a sense food for thought, whereas the other is...

All habits are bad habits. (…) Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.

Warren Buffett chuckled and said to me “I hope it’s not my bad habits” Good Habits once established are just as hard to break as bad habits and bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. So what are you going to do about it?

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

Excessive self-criticism is a bad habit and extraordinarily self-destructive. Don’t be your own worst enemy!

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

Sometimes the old ways will not give you up”…Chief–Lobi Tribe

A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don’t later fray.

I don’t only act out of my character; my character reacts to my actions. Each time I why, even if I’m not caught, I become a little bit more of this ugly thing: a liar. Character is always in the making, with each morally valenced action, whether right or wrong, affecting our characters, the people...

All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits – practical, emotional, and intellectual – systematically organized for our weal or woe, and bearing us irresistibly toward our destiny, whatever the latter may be.” – William James

It’s a wonderful paradox: only when you have a changeless sense of who you are, can real changes take place. It is the ground of your absolute value and everything that is truly worthwhile.

So why bother investing in one’s memory in an age of externalized memories? The best answer I can give is the one I received unwittingly from EP, whose memory had been so completely lost that he could not place himself in time or space, or relative to other people. That is: How we perceive the...

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

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

In order to improve our life for good always remember that regardless of what anyone else says and does, we are ultimately responsible for our own actions. This is the only way to experience victory, joy, and satisfaction every day of our lives.

Z is for Zany! Master the Zany habit of thinking backwards. it will help you become a really great thinker!

Americans love to hear good things about their bad habits.

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 first time, when it really matters, they find that they do what’s required automatically. Virtue is what happens when wise...

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 the action steps you will take to prove your current thoughts wrong. Once you take consistent, habitual action the thoughts...

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 your eager neighbors look to you for a continuous manifestation of the good cheer, the sympathy, the ready wit, the...

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, sometimes a longer time, and sometimes old habits are so hard to break that new ones never take hold.

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 put into our bodies daily.

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 we feel powerless, invisible, unheard. We crave celebrity, but that’s not easy to come by, so we settle for notoriety....