New Habits Quotes

• It takes 3 weeks to break a habit, 6 weeks to develop a new habit and 36 weeks to hardwire this new habit.

  Patrick Holford

  Week, Habit, Break

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• Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Men, Healthy Habits

  Mark Twain (2011). “Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins”, p.79, Modern Library

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• Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance.

  Brian Tracy

  Practice, Mastery, Habit

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• With constant repetition and reinforcement, new habits are easily formed.

  Marshall Sylver

  Reinforcement, Habit, Repetition

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• But countless studies have shown that a cue and a reward, on their own, aren't enough for a new habit to last. Only when your brain starts expecting the reward--craving the endorphins or sense of accomplishment--will it become automatic to lace up your jogging shoes each morning. The cue, in addition to triggering a routine, must also trigger a craving for the reward to come.

  Charles Duhigg

  Morning, Shoes, Accomplishment

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• Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. You cannot eliminate habits that no longer serve you. You can only replace them with new habits that support your goals. Moment by moment, you need to live with awareness and structure the habits that you include or exclude in your days.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Men, Goal

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• Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.

  Charles Duhigg

  Creating, Sparks, Habit

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.59, Random House

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• There is magic in knocking down your most important domino day after day. All you have to do is avoid breaking the chain, one day at a time, until you generate a powerful new habit in your life.

  Gary W. Keller

  Motivation, Powerful, Magic

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• God desires to change us from the inside out. Renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new habits.

  Beth Moore

  Teaching, Self, Mind

  Beth Moore (2007). “Breaking Free Day by Day: A Year of Walking in Liberty”, p.150, B&H Publishing Group

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• The solution is to ignore the bad habit and put your energy toward building a new habit that will override the old one.

  Daniel Coyle

  Energy, Building, Habit

  Daniel Coyle (2012). “The Little Book of Talent”, p.46, Random House

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• To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Substance, Tissues

  "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel". Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• Those old habits don't have to be erased, they just become replaced by a new habit that is more in vibrational harmony with who you are and what you want.

  Esther Hicks

  Old Habits, Want, Harmony

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• To change one's life:
  a. Start immediately
  b. B. Do it flamboyantly
  c. No exceptions
  Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted.

  William James

  Dream, Suffering, Habit

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• Hello, cell. How are you? Still dank and dirty? Me? I've taken up a new habit: talking to my cell. It's like talking to myself but slightly more pathetic.

  Brandon Mull

  Dirty, Taken, Cells

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• A movement starts because of the social habits of friendship and the strong ties between close acquaintances. It grows because of the habits of a community, and the weak ties that hold neighborhoods and clans together. And it endures because a movement's leaders give participants new habits that create a fresh sense of identity and a feeling of ownership.

  Charles Duhigg

  Strong, Ties, Giving

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• Beginning a new habit, or ending an old one can feel like letting go of a rope that swings a mile above the ground. So we feel reluctant to let go, after all, we've survived so far doing what we've done, why risk it.

  Philippa Perry

  Letting Go, Swings, Risk

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness and trust-based relationships.

  Stephen Covey

  Self, Effectiveness, Patterns

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.74, Mango Media Inc.

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• We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.

  William James

  Life, Success, Strong

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

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Long, Suffering, Youth

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• Times of transition are strenuous, but I love them. They are an opportunity to purge, rethink priorities, and be intentional about new habits. We can make our new normal any way we want.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Opportunity, New Normal, Priorities

  "6 Ways to Manage and Thrive Through Transition and Change" by Marilyn Tam, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 16, 2014.

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• Almost everything we'll ever do in life that is really powerful, that really produces a result in our lives, that quantum-leaps us to a new level . . . requires us to do something uncomfortable. It takes risks to achieve. It's often scary. It requires something you didn't know before or a skill you didn't have before. But in the end, it's worth it. As former Congressman Ed Forman says, 'Winners are those people who make a habit of doing things losers are uncomfortable doing.' Make today your day to start that uncomfortable new habit.

  Jack Canfield

  Powerful, Skills, People

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• In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible.

  William James

  Strong, Leaving, Acquisition

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.34, Cosimo, Inc.

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• New habits can be launched.

  William James

  Habit

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.65, Nuvision Pubns

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• The only way to permanently install a new habit is to direct so much energy toward it that the old one slips away like an unwelcome house guest.

  Robin Sharma

  House, Energy, Guests

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Dec 02, 2013

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• One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Long, Bears, Habit

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