William James Quotes

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

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

Consistency is always the best teacher.

Habits are more powerful than fears.

Habit is overcome by habit.

Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.

We become what we repeatedly do.

Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.

Your character is the harvest of your habits.

Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits.

Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.

The teacher's prime concern should be to ingrain into the pupil that assortment of habits that shall be most useful to him throughout life. Education is for behavior, and habits are the stuff of which behavior consists.

Nothing is stronger than habit.

Your actions become your habits. Don't let yourself make a pattern of slipups or they'll become habits!

I'm doing a lot of speaking and talking about habits, which is this subject that obsesses me. That's a lot of fun.

Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

A dream becomes a reality as a result of your actions, and your actions are controlled, to a large extent, by your habits.

How use doth breed a habit in a man.

The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

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

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

Habits change into character.

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.

We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.