Top Habits Quotes

Instead of trying to engineer a perfect habit from the start, do the easy thing on a more consistent basis.

What is rewarded is repeated. What is punished is avoided.

A habit needs to be enjoyable for it to last. Change is easy when it is enjoyable.

Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit.

We’ll jump through a lot of hoops to avoid a little bit of immediate pain.

Without variety, we get bored. And boredom is perhaps the greatest villain on the quest for self-improvement.

The only way to become excellent is to be endlessly fascinated by doing the same thing over and over. You have to fall in love with boredom.

The downside of habits is that you get used to doing things a certain way and stop paying attention to little errors.

Small habits don’t add up. They compound. That’s the power of Atomic Habits. Tiny changes. Remarkable results.

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Ultimately, it is your commitment to the process that will determine your progress.

You are not born with your present beliefs. Every belief, including those about yourself, is learned and conditioned through experience.

In this way, the process of building habits is actually the process of becoming yourself.

You have the power to change your beliefs about yourself. Your identity is not set in stone. You have a choice in every moment.

Here’s the punchline: You can break a habit, but you’re unlikely to forget it.

This is the secret to self-control. Make the cues of your good habits obvious and the cues of your bad habits invisible.

A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.

The closer we are to someone, the more likely we are to imitate some of their habits.

This means that simply putting in your reps is one of the most critical steps you can take to encoding a new habit.

But one push-up is better than not exercising. It’s better to do less than you hoped than to do nothing at all.