Maxwell Maltz Quotes

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

Your desired behavior must become just as much a habit as your undesired behavior was before.

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

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

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.

Once you break a habit into its components, you can fiddle with the gears.

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

It's unfortunate, you know, that you can't change people's - habits, their personal habits.

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

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

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.

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

Unless the desire to change remains strong, body and mind tend to return to old, familiar patterns. It takes time-from three to six months-for old habits to become obsolete. By the end of that time, you'll have adapted to a new pattern. In a sense, you'll have found a new way of life.

In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible.

You can't expect a man to change in one day by watching a film, right?

Habits change into character.

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

You have to actually believe in your capacity to change for habits to permanently change.

You can't suddenly say, 'I want a brand new habit tomorrow,' and expect it to be easy and effortless.

Changing lifestyle habits acquired over many years is often extremely difficult.

I never really make solid resolutions. I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year.

The specific steps for changing a specific habit differ from person to person and habit to habit, but the steps - the formula - is essentially the same, and once you learn it, you can do amazing things.

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

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

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