John Wooden Quotes

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.

In a sense, habits never really disappear. Once formed, they always remain in our neurology.

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

Habits change into character.

Old habits are strong and jealous.

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

At 19, you're not really thinking about the habits you have. I wasn't. Maybe your study habits? But not your life habits.

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.

Your character is the harvest of your habits.

Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits.

Old habits die hard, I guess. If you dont kick them, they kick you.

Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.

Then one day, we’ll put the reward in the old place, and put in the rat, and, by golloy, the old habit will rememerge right away. habits never really disappear. They’re encoded into the sturctures of our brain, and that’s a huge advantage for us, because it would be awful if we had to relearn how to drive after every vacation. The problem is that your brain can’t tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it’s always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.

We build our character from the bricks of habit we pile up day by day.

The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

We become what we repeatedly do.

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

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

See what a person is doing every day, day after day, and you'll know who that person is and what he or she is becoming.

Habits start out as off-hand remarks, magazine advertisements, friendly hints, experiments - like flimsy cobwebs with little substance. They grow with practice, layer by layer - thought on thought - fused with imagination and emotion until they become like steel cables - unbreakable. Habits are attitudes which grow from cobwebs into cables that control your everyday life. Self-discipline alone can make or break a habit. Self discipline alone can effect a permanent change in your self image and in you. Self-discipline achieves goals. Self discipline is not 'doing without,' it is 'doing within.'

If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.

Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.

Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.