Jordan Peterson Quotes

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

I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.

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

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

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

The soaps are great training. You can form good habits - or you can form bad habits. You have to set your goals. If you're not clear on what you want, you can slip into bad habits. It can become a comfortable place, and you don't grow.

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.

The fast pace of life doesn't give you much scope for wasting your time or wallowing in the past or regrets.

Sometimes it doesn't take much to slip back into bad habits.

I feel like I wasted my time in my twenties. When you are beginning to realise your potential you wish you'd realized it earlier.

I hate not practicing.

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

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.

The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.

What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?

If we don't progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.

Procrastination has robbed us of too many opportunities.

I’m a big believer in starting with high standards and raising them. We make progress only when we push ourselves to the highest level. If we don’t progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence; the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature.

How do you get up in the morning? Another wasted life it's so boring The system never failed you You failed yourself and all of your friends Now your heart is failing too A total system failure they pronounce you

The future is just wasted on some people.

I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.

True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road

Tired faith all worn and thin, for all we could have done, and all that could have been.