Tony Robbins Quotes

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.

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

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

We feel that if you - practice habits turn into game realities.

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

A huge amount of success in life comes from learning as a child how to make good habits. It's good to help kids understand that when they do certain things habitually, they're reinforcing patterns.

Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

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

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then - and this is the best part - we can allow the extraordinary power of habit to take over. At that point, we're free from the need to decide and the need to use willpower.

The question is the propriety of how we go about influencing and changing behavior.

I'm not sympathetic. I have zero sympathy. I understand about emotional eating, I understand how painful the process can be, but I also understand that change is possible.

What motivates most people to change their behavior is consequences. No consequences? No behavior modification.

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

So, on the whole, I'd have to say that no, people don't change, but they CAN learn to behave differently. I want to believe otherwise. If you have an argument that says I'm wrong, I'd be glad to hear it.

People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

I think most diets are torture, which is why I don't believe in them. But, as is true with exercise, when you make a change and feel the benefits, you want to stick with it.

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

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

At some point, if you're changing a really deep-seated behavior, you're going to have a moment of weakness.