Joseph Dougherty Quotes

A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.

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

Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits.

Unless the desire to change remains strong, body and mind tend to return to old, familiar patterns. It takes time-from three to six months-for old habits to become obsolete. By the end of that time, you'll have adapted to a new pattern. In a sense, you'll have found a new way of life.

Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.

Nature only goes so far. Nurture, what you raised on and what you ingest as a youngster, it really affects you when you grow up in really subtle, long drawn-out ways. And to find that, to hear that thing again all those years later and to realize that was the source, it's like, "What else has me twisted?" So now I'm going back to robots and cartoons; I go back to all this to see what got me the way that I am.

For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Remember that your character is the sum total of your habits.

I think habits and behaviors are very hard to change. And they're even harder when you're back home.

Don't change the man. Change his environment.

I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one below the other in my mind.

Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.

Watch your habits, they determine your character.

New habits make new horizons. Silently and imperceptibly you are forming habits which will ultimately determine the degree of your happiness and success. Closely guard the quality of your thoughts, that they may lead to right habits and thence to right living. Recognize and use such supreme qualities as courage, faith, humility, loyalty, temperance, and integrity.

You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again.

Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.

With everything you do, in fact, you should train yourself to question your repeated behaviors.

If you stay in that new flow of positive behavior, it's hard to revert back to old patterns. But if you do fall off, just forgive yourself, recover quickly, and get right back on.

Your habits determine your outcomes.

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.

What you do daily determines what you become permanently

Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.

We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.