W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

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

There are things we do out of habit that are not always good for us. Break the bad habits and develop some good ones.

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

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

Many men and women in the world demonstrate great willpower and self-discipline in overcoming bad habits and the weaknesses of the flesh.

There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.

I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.

Bad habits are easy to develop but difficult to live with. Good habits are difficult to develop, but easy to live with. If you are willing to be uncomfortable for little while, so you can press past the initial pain of change, in the long run, your life will be much better.

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

There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.

The soaps are great training. You can form good habits - or you can form bad habits. You have to set your goals. If you're not clear on what you want, you can slip into bad habits. It can become a comfortable place, and you don't grow.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them fully developed in someone else.

Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.

If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.

The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

Since I've quit drinking, I'm not sure I've found the good life, but I've certainly uncovered a better one.

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

One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.

I don't have any bad habbits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they're all right for me.

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

I believe that if you regularly make the right choice - and it takes practice; it takes effort - the more you make the right choice, the easier it gets.

Staying consistent with positive habits can be a challenge.

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