Ian K. Smith Quotes

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.

Real change happens a step at a time.

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

I don't think I'm capable of making radical changes, but over a period of four or five years you can perceive very big changes, and they seem rather small at the time.

Small steps can help people make big changes to achieve what they really desire. That wish isn't going to go anywhere unless you do something about it. Every day, just do one thing. At the end of six months, you'll be somewhere.

You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

A person can't change all at once.

Habits change into character.

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

It wasn't until I had been writing on and off for maybe ten years that I started to establish any kind of routine, thought I couldn't put a finger on an exact date, and this routine relates simply to the aphorism 'How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.'

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

You achieve long-term success step by step. Try to achieve your goals one at a time, like you do target practice.

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

In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time.

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.

My philosophy when I trained was to be 1% better every day.

I think you have to improve every day a little bit so you don't have one day where there's a big thing coming.

It is extremely hard to break bad habits and takes a long time to start new, healthy ones.

You don't have to change that much for it to make a great deal of difference. A few simple disciplines can have a major impact on how your life works out in the next 90 days, let alone in the next 12 months or the next 3 years.

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.

Take action every day - some small dose at a time.

The only time to take the step towards change is now. Even if they're baby steps, start today! Consistency is important because you must make time to work on your goals. Even if there is little you can do, you must!

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