Robert Baden-Powell Quotes

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.

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.

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

It takes a good habit to replace a bad habit.

Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in changing behavior. But, at the same time, they can create an addiction to rewards and punishments.

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

You have to actually believe in your capacity to change for habits to permanently change.

At some point, if you're changing a really deep-seated behavior, you're going to have a moment of weakness.

When most individuals or most companies are talking about trying to create healthy habits, the key is to identify which habit or habits seem most important.

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

The problem with New Year's resolutions - and resolutions to 'get in better shape' in general, which are very amorphous - is that people try to adopt too many behavioral changes at once. It doesn't work. I don't care if you're a world-class CEO - you'll quit.

You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior.

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

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

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.

The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.

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

In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible.

Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.

It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.

Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you.

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.

Only a habit can subdue another habit.