Louise Hay Quotes

Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits.

Habit hath so vast a prevalence over the human mind that there is scarce anything too strange or too strong to be asserted of it. The story of the miser who, from long accustoming to cheat others, came at last to cheat himself, and with great delight and triumph picked his own pocket of a guinea to convey to his hoard, is not impossible or improbable.

Habit in most cases hardens and encrusts by taking away the keener edge of our sensations: but does it not in others quicken and refine, by giving a mechanical facility and by engrafting an acquired sense?

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 only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

How use doth breed a habit in a man.

One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones.

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

We learn our belief systems as very little children, and then we move through life creating experiences to match our beliefs. Look back in your own life and notice how often you have gone through the same experience.

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

The problem is that your brain can't tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it's always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.

Your character is the harvest of your habits.

It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.

Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.

Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment.

Habits are more powerful than fears.

Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.

Old habits die hard, I guess. If you dont kick them, they kick you.

Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

Then one day, we’ll put the reward in the old place, and put in the rat, and, by golloy, the old habit will rememerge right away. habits never really disappear. They’re encoded into the sturctures of our brain, and that’s a huge advantage for us, because it would be awful if we had to relearn how to drive after every vacation. The problem is that your brain can’t tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it’s always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.

Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.

We build our character from the bricks of habit we pile up day by day.