William James Quotes

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

Staying consistent with positive habits can be a challenge.

Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.

Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.

Habit is stronger than desire.

Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.

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

I wanted to be consistent with my exercise, so I committed to working out for 30 days in a row, no matter what.

Discipline, work. Work, discipline.

If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.

The only routine I have is that I finish everything I start. I wake up early every day - about 6.30 A.M. - but I do not work every day. I could laze for a day or two, but I wouldn't do it for three.

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.

When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.

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

All of us, we know, not just in football but in life, that we cannot achieve important things without consistency.

We can all pick a goal and find a reason to do it. Then some of us can actually do all the little things over and over again. That's definitely a harder step. Doing it again? That's where it gets to be a beast, when you have to repeat. It's the hardest part of it all.

Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.

Sometimes I find it too hot to run, and sometimes too cold. Or too cloudy. But I still go running. I know that if I didn't go running, I wouldn't go the next day either. It's not in human nature to take unnecessary burdens upon oneself, so one's body soon becomes disaccustomed. It mustn't do that. It's the same with writing. I write every day so that my mind doesn't become disaccustomed.

Work is doing it. Discipline is doing it every day. Diligence is doing it well every day.

Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire.

Talent is cheap. What really matters is discipline.

Both success and failure are largely the results of HABIT!

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there. Make motivation a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip.

Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.