Mark Twain Quotes

Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

old habits are hard to break, but not impossible!

the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.

The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.

Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.

If you're going to change a habit, you must BE the treatment.

The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.

The habits that took years to build, do not take a day to change.

I think if you stop bad habits, and you stop long enough, you develop good habits.

A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.

The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.

Twenty-eight days is what is takes to break a habit and to implement a new set of habits.

Once you understand that habits can change, you have the freedom and the responsibility to remake them. Once you understand that habits can be rebuilt, the power of habit becomes easier to grasp and the only option left is to get to work.

You can develop any habit or thought or behavior that you consider desirable or necessary.

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

A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.

Breaking old habits and forming new ones always takes time, but it is worth it in the end.

We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.

If your habits don't line up with your dream, then you need to either change your habits or change your dream

Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.

It takes a good habit to replace a bad habit.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

You can't expect a man to change in one day by watching a film, right?