Dan Buettner Quotes

Surround yourself with a bunch of like-minded people, and you'll soak up their habits like a starved sponge. Fat people with fat friends care less about their weight.

Your social networks may matter more than your genetic networks. But if your friends have healthy habits you are more likely to as well. So get healthy friends.

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

The people that you have around you are your biggest influence.

If you want to become healthy, you have to surround yourself with a group of people that are getting healthy, and you have to be connected to a community that is doing what you want to do.

Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other.

I don't think you can totally judge a girl based on her circle of friends and loved ones, but I think it's nice to see where she's spending her time.

It's often said that you're the product of the five people you spend the most time with. If you allow even one of those five people to be toxic, you'll soon find out how capable he or she is of holding you back.

You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.

One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.

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

I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.

The thing that I always try and say to young people starting out is your peer group is really the most important influence on your life because you are going to rise and fall together.

You're only as good as the people who you surround yourself with.

The key to forming good habits is to make them part of your 'rituals.' I have a morning ritual, afternoon ritual, and Sunday ritual. It's one way to bundle good habits into regular times that you set aside to prepare yourself for the life you want. Rituals help you form habits.

You need a good support system when you're trying to make positive lifestyle changes. If everyone is eating burgers and fries while you're having fish and salad, it's easy to lose your willpower.

There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.

I believe that if you regularly make the right choice - and it takes practice; it takes effort - the more you make the right choice, the easier it gets.

Thankfully, I've got great support around me to keep my feet on the floor.

I don't know if I owned a toothbrush until I was 19, maybe. I didn't come from stock that placed any importance on the toothbrush. But a couple of girls I met changed that. And I would do anything to get a girl to pay attention to me long enough that I could feel good about myself.

Every day, I'm journaling and making sure things I do wrong I change or try to fix and make better and things I do right I continue to do those more often.

When friends started smoking at 16 or drinking at 18, I made myself not follow. No lads' holidays, all that stuff.

Surround yourself with people who support you. Find champions.

The important thing is to be around people who will make you a better player. Otherwise, you can remain average.

I consider fitness, diet, and beauty to be essential to a balanced self.