Andy Stanley Quotes

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

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.

In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible.

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.

The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.

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.

Virtually everything we do in life is a matter of habit. Habits make us who we are. Why not change your habits to better your life?

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

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

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

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

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

What we know from lab studies is that it's never too late to break a habit. Habits are malleable throughout your entire life. But we also know that the best way to change a habit is to understand its structure - that once you tell people about the cue and the reward and you force them to recognize what those factors are in a behavior, it becomes much, much easier to change.

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.

Habits are formed, not at one stroke, but gradually and insensibly; so that, unless vigilant care be employed, a great change may come over the character without our being conscious of any.

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.

It takes a good habit to replace a bad habit.

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

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

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

Once you break a habit into its components, you can fiddle with the gears.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

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