Elizabeth Thornton Quotes

I have found there are four steps to change. 1. You must want it. 2. You must believe it. 3. You must live it. 4. You will become it.

Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep.

You make New Year's resolutions. And you make them into the teeth of old resolutions which were different. Then you don't keep your new resolutions and you tell yourself you are weak-willed. You aren't weak-willed, you are simply obeying yourself as of yesterday.

I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.

It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is really the study of happiness. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a significant element of happiness.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

New Year's Eve is a great time to think about making a resolution to change a behavior, improve upon a practice, or to start something new. Most people don't keep their resolutions very far into the year, but there's no reason to wait until Dec 31st to reboot.

One of the best places to start to turn your life around is by doing whatever appears on your mental "I should" list.

I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and the next day I started to do that.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

I never really make solid resolutions. I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year.

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement.

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.

You change your life by changing your heart.

I never really do the New Year's Resolution thing. I kind of just try to stay focused, not get too distracted, and do the best I can. And that's something I like to tell myself every year around New Year's.

I just need to improve.

It wasn't until I stopped worrying about my own validation and finally refocused my energy on things I could actually change that I finally grew as a person and as a professional.

I thought that if I was able to change myself, I would be more successful.

If you try to be better every day, more miracles happen in your life.

I don’t really do New Year’s resolutions because I don’t think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you’ve got a problem, you need to fix it now.

I'm always asking people to do something in their mind [first]. So if they're gonna do one exercise, it would be to ask themselves what they want to change about themselves in the next 12 weeks. Once they solve that, the body will follow.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.