Napoleon Hill Quotes

Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits.

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

I'm doing a lot of speaking and talking about habits, which is this subject that obsesses me. That's a lot of fun.

Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad 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 problem is that your brain can't tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it's always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.

Habits are more powerful than fears.

Habit hath so vast a prevalence over the human mind that there is scarce anything too strange or too strong to be asserted of it. The story of the miser who, from long accustoming to cheat others, came at last to cheat himself, and with great delight and triumph picked his own pocket of a guinea to convey to his hoard, is not impossible or improbable.

Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.

If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.

It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.

How use doth breed a habit in a man.

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

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

Many men and women in the world demonstrate great willpower and self-discipline in overcoming bad habits and the weaknesses of the flesh.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

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

Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.

Your character is the harvest of your habits.

Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.

Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.

Then one day, we’ll put the reward in the old place, and put in the rat, and, by golloy, the old habit will rememerge right away. habits never really disappear. They’re encoded into the sturctures of our brain, and that’s a huge advantage for us, because it would be awful if we had to relearn how to drive after every vacation. The problem is that your brain can’t tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it’s always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.