New Habits Quotes:

New habits can be launched.

- William James

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

topic: Habit, New Habits

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

topic: Habit, Week, Break, New Habits

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

topic: Time, Men, Steps, Healthy Habits, Good Habits

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

- Brian Tracy

topic: Practice, Mastery, Habit, New Habits

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

- Marshall Sylver

topic: Reinforcement, Habit, Repetition, New Habits

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

topic: Morning, Shoes, Accomplishment, Sense Of Accomplishment, Endorphins

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

topic: Inspirational Life, Men, Goal, New Habits

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

- Charles Duhigg

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

topic: Creating, Sparks, Habit, New Habits

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

topic: Motivation, Powerful, Magic, New Habits

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

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

topic: Teaching, Self, Mind, Desire To Change, Self Destructive

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

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

topic: Energy, Building, Habit, New Habits

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

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

topic: Life, Substance, Tissues, New Habits

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

topic: Old Habits, Want, Harmony, New Habits

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

topic: Dream, Suffering, Habit, Winding Up, New Habits

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

topic: Dirty, Taken, Cells, Dank, New Habits

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

topic: Strong, Ties, Giving, Clans, New Habits

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

source: Source: bigthink.com

topic: Letting Go, Swings, Risk, New Habits

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

topic: Effectiveness, Self, Patterns, Present Situation, Self Defeating Behavior

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.

- William James

source: William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.12, Courier Corporation

topic: Life, Work, Hands, Power Of The Mind, New Habits

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

- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

topic: Long, Suffering, Youth, New Habits

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

topic: Opportunity, Priorities, Normal, Times Of Transition, New Normal

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

topic: Powerful, Skills, People, Quantum Leap, Really Powerful

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

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

topic: Strong, Leaving, Acquisition, New Habits

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

source: FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Dec 02, 2013

topic: House, Energy, Guests, Unwelcome, New Habits

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

- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

topic: Long, Bears, Habit, New Habits

The second step to achieving your goals in the New Year involves action and this is where many people run off track. The life we are living and have known to this point is comfortable and easy. Therefore we find it hard to establish new habits and routines even if we know they will bring us a better life. Our old belief system drags us back into the familiar. It is hard to overcome and we often experience small setbacks. This is the time to go back and look at your goals. Read your goal statement repeatedly and remind yourself of what you want and why.

- Bob Proctor

source: FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 31, 2011

topic: Running, New Year, Years, New Habits

If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it. We know full well that the insertion of new habits or the changing of old ones is the only way to preserve life, to renew our sense of time, to rejuvenate, intensify, and ***** our experience of time—and thereby renew our sense of life itself. That is the reason for every change of scenery and air..

- Thomas Mann

topic: Past, Years, Air, Retard, Change Of Scenery

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. I will become something else.

- Veronica Roth

topic: Thinking, Embroidery, Tugging, New Thought, Abnegation

Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder. Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that's something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later: between twenty and thirty, say. And after that, we're just stuck with what we've got. We're on our own. If so, that would explain a lot of lives, wouldn't it? And also - if this isn't too grand a word - our tragedy.

- Julian Barnes

topic: Attitude, Character, Tragedy, New Habits

Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real horror vacuum.

- August Strindberg

topic: Real, Sorrow, Void, Starvation, Filled Up

Long-lasting change that will help you create new habits and actions requires an inside-out approach, as well as two very important tools: the mirror and time.

- Darren Johnson

topic: Two, Mirrors, Long, Lasting Change, Lasting Love

Thirty days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit - like watching the news - from your life.

- Matt Cutts

topic: Motivation, Inspiration, News, New Habits

You make the choice for change more easily and readily each time as your conscious mind begins to reprogram your subconscious mind with a new habit, and the decision is reinforced by that positive change.

- Marshall Sylver

topic: Choices, Decision, Mind, New Habits

New habits make new horizons. Silently and imperceptibly you are forming habits which will ultimately determine the degree of your happiness and success. Closely guard the quality of your thoughts, that they may lead to right habits and thence to right living. Recognize and use such supreme qualities as courage, faith, humility, loyalty, temperance, and integrity.

- Grenville Kleiser

source: Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

topic: Loyalty, Integrity, Humility, New Horizons, New Habits

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

- William Ralph Inge

topic: Phases, Connections, Consciousness, New Habits