Zig Ziglar Quotes

Bad habits are our enemies because they hinder us from being the person we want to be.

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

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

I've learned to go out and focus on what I can control, like how hard I work and my attitude and whether I'm happy or not. I've really tried to focus on those things.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.

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.

I'm doing a lot of speaking and talking about habits, which is this subject that obsesses me. That's a lot of fun.

I will form good habits and become their slaves.

New habits make new horizons. Silently and imperceptibly you are forming habits which will ultimately determine the degree of your happiness and success. Closely guard the quality of your thoughts, that they may lead to right habits and thence to right living. Recognize and use such supreme qualities as courage, faith, humility, loyalty, temperance, and integrity.

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).

Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom.

You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none.

A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.

Bad habits fill needs, so find good alternatives for them.

The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.

Little choices determine habit; Habit carves and molds character. Which makes the big decisions.

There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.

By changing our mindset and habits, we can actually dramatically change the course of life, improve intelligence, productivity, improve the quality of our lives, and improve every single education and business outcome.

What activities, behaviors, or decisions have been most responsible for your success in life? Do more of them.

God desires to change us from the inside out. Renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new habits.

Let the jerks of the world serve as the perfect example of what you don't want to be. You'll be a heck of a lot happier, and in the long run, there's a chance that other person at work will end up asking what your secret is. Why are you the happy one? In other words, don't let your thoughts think you. Besides, if you're really gonna get pissed, don't waste it on your family, friends, or coworkers, save it for something that really matters.

Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.

If you're going to change a habit, you must BE the treatment.