Denise Austin Quotes

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

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

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

You can't suddenly say, 'I want a brand new habit tomorrow,' and expect it to be easy and effortless.

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.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

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.

Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.

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

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.

Changing lifestyle habits acquired over many years is often extremely difficult.

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

When we're trying to form and keep habits, we often search - even unconsciously - for loopholes. We look for justifications that will excuse us from keeping this particular habit in this particular situation.

There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.

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.

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.

Staying consistent with positive habits can be a challenge.

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.

Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

Habits change into character.