Charles Duhigg Quotes

If I quit all the things I loved cold turkey, I knew it would only be so long before I went back to my old ways.

Everybody has some kind of addiction. It's about how you get around that addiction. First, you have to break the habit like anything. You have to define the hurdle or the objective.

I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.

It is extremely hard to break bad habits and takes a long time to start new, healthy ones.

The major thing that holds you back when you're trying to change a bad habit like eating, smoking, or drinking too much is your belief you are out of control.

I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.

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

I do believe that I'm an addict on one level or another at all times.

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

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

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Changing lifestyle habits acquired over many years is often extremely difficult.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

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

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

The specific steps for changing a specific habit differ from person to person and habit to habit, but the steps - the formula - is essentially the same, and once you learn it, you can do amazing things.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

When you try to bring about behavioral change by an effort of will, you actually do violence to yourself, and the chances are very good that you will not succeed. This is so universally true that you can actually make money from it.