Melody Carlson Quotes

The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.

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

The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.

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.

The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.

A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.

Bad habits are easy to develop but difficult to live with. Good habits are difficult to develop, but easy to live with. If you are willing to be uncomfortable for little while, so you can press past the initial pain of change, in the long run, your life will be much better.

Once you understand that habits can change, you have the freedom and the responsibility to remake them. Once you understand that habits can be rebuilt, the power of habit becomes easier to grasp and the only option left is to get to work.

I'll give up my bad habits as soon as equally satisfying good habits become available.

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.

Bad habits fill needs, so find good alternatives for them.

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

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.

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

There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.

I will form good habits and become their slaves.

If you're going to change a habit, you must BE the treatment.

When we consciously and deliberately develop new and better habits, our self image tends to outgrow the old habits and grow into the new pattern.

It takes a habit to replace a habit.

If your habits don't line up with your dream, then you need to either change your habits or change your dream

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

Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.

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