Manners matter, asserts the professor. What provokes rebellion, he asserts, is not as often a theory out allowing for arbitrary power but be excessive, brusque use of it by a particular individual.
Pick the right habits and progress is easy. Pick the wrong habit and life is a struggle.
I try to remind myself of a simple rule: never miss twice.
A habit needs to be enjoyable for it to last. Change is easy when it is enjoyable.
Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
Many people think they lack motivation when what they really lack is clarity.
Habits do not restrict freedom. They create it.
Ultimately, it is your commitment to the process that will determine your progress.
All big things come from small beginnings.
Habits are hard to let go, especially if they are human beings.
The meaning of everything that occurs in your life is decided by the frame you put around it.
Living below your current means increases your future means.
The American automobile has changed the habits of every member of modern society.
People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them...
I don't have huge bank accounts. I'd love one. But it wouldn't change much. I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy fo...
Great habits sharpen our thoughts and make us great.
For example, if you think you are a certain way as a person and that is just who you are and you don't have the power to change, that will become true for you. Whatever image, thoughts or words you co...
Without variety, we get bored. And boredom is perhaps the greatest villain on the quest for self-improvement.
This means that simply putting in your reps is one of the most critical steps you can take to encoding a new habit.
We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.