Rick Ross Quotes

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 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.

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

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

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 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.

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

Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.

I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.

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

I keep saying I'm going to cut back on styling, but it's hard to give up.

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.

We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then - and this is the best part - we can allow the extraordinary power of habit to take over. At that point, we're free from the need to decide and the need to use willpower.

I need to protect myself from my own addictive impulse.

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

If you're going to stop masturbating, you can't taper off. You've got to quit, cold jerky!

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

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

It's a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break.

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

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

If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.