Charles Duhigg Quotes

Changing people's habits is very expensive

I think you can change your belief, but sometimes your behavior takes a lot longer.

The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.

It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.

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

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

Once you understand that habits can change, you have the freedom and the responsibility to remake them. Once you understand that habits can be rebuilt, the power of habit becomes easier to grasp and the only option left is to get to work.

the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.

I have full faith in people. I think that we have the ability to change. We're habitual creatures. Once we figure out that bad habit and identify it, whether it's behavioral or whatever it may be, we change our habits. Obviously, I'm simplifying it and making it sound very easy to do, and we all know it's very difficult, but it's doable.

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

When we consciously and deliberately develop new and better habits, our self image tends to outgrow the old habits and grow into the new pattern.

Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.

We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.

A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

Providentially, learned habits can be unlearned, especially in the context of moral groups.

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.

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

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

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

It is difficult for a fool's habits to change to selflessness.

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.

The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.

The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.