Phil McGraw Quotes

Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire.

Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.

Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.

You make New Year's resolutions. And you make them into the teeth of old resolutions which were different. Then you don't keep your new resolutions and you tell yourself you are weak-willed. You aren't weak-willed, you are simply obeying yourself as of yesterday.

I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.

I'm doing a lot of speaking and talking about habits, which is this subject that obsesses me. That's a lot of fun.

If you don't change what you are doing today, all of your tomorrows will look like yesterday.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

I know where I'm going to be, I'm not traveling here and there and everywhere. That didn't necessarily prompt me to it but it definitely opened up my mind of saying okay, maybe this is a good time to do this.

You look in the mirror everyday and you see the same thing. As an entertainer, you wanna see something new.

Habits change into character.

That's a part of me going back to what I used to do.

Your desired behavior must become just as much a habit as your undesired behavior was before.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is really the study of happiness. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a significant element of happiness.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.

Maybe sometimes I'm such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I really don't need to do anything, I don't really need to change anything. I need to just keep plugging away, working at it.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.

Going back because it's what I did and I was sort of all right at it is not a good reason to race the TT.

If you get on a roll - good or bad - it's hard to get out of it, but it's not impossible.

You've got the same rhythm every day just to keep you going. So once that rhythm is broken, it's kind of hard to get back with it when you got a lot of things going on.

I used to take a lot of pride into what went into practice.

Staying consistent with positive habits can be a challenge.