James Dobson Quotes

Once you break a habit into its components, you can fiddle with the gears.

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.

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.

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.

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

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

When we consciously and deliberately develop new and better habits, our self image tends to outgrow the old habits and grow into the new pattern.

To change bad habits, we must study the habits of successful role models.

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

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

Most people (by the time they have become adults ) can't change their minds because their neural pathways have become set... the longer neural pathways have been running one way the harder it is to rewire them.

I'll give up my bad habits as soon as equally satisfying good habits become available.

Unless the desire to change remains strong, body and mind tend to return to old, familiar patterns. It takes time-from three to six months-for old habits to become obsolete. By the end of that time, you'll have adapted to a new pattern. In a sense, you'll have found a new way of life.

All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief.

Healthy habits are learned in the same way as unhealthy ones - through practice.

The only way to permanently install a new habit is to direct so much energy toward it that the old one slips away like an unwelcome house guest.

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

Your actions become your habits. Don't let yourself make a pattern of slipups or they'll become habits!

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

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

Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

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

Habits start out as off-hand remarks, magazine advertisements, friendly hints, experiments - like flimsy cobwebs with little substance. They grow with practice, layer by layer - thought on thought - fused with imagination and emotion until they become like steel cables - unbreakable. Habits are attitudes which grow from cobwebs into cables that control your everyday life. Self-discipline alone can make or break a habit. Self discipline alone can effect a permanent change in your self image and in you. Self-discipline achieves goals. Self discipline is not 'doing without,' it is 'doing within.'

So, on the whole, I'd have to say that no, people don't change, but they CAN learn to behave differently. I want to believe otherwise. If you have an argument that says I'm wrong, I'd be glad to hear it.

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