Thomas a Kempis Quotes

Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.

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

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

New habits can be launched.

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.

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

Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.

The habits that took years to build, do not take a day 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.

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

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

I think if you stop bad habits, and you stop long enough, you develop good habits.

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

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

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.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

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

There are things we do out of habit that are not always good for us. Break the bad habits and develop some good ones.

Staying consistent with positive habits can be a challenge.

Procrastinating is a habit that I have to overcome.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.