Sustainable Habits Quotes

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Now we may have more preachers out there than we have drinkers. But a fellow told me a story one time about a man down in Kentuckywhere they make bourbon. And he said you can take a jigger or two jiggers and get by all right. But if you try to take the whole bottle why you have lost what you started with. So don't try to take it too quick. And don't try to do all of it at once. I don't do much promising. I tell what my goals are and then I try to wrap it up and put a blue ribbon on it and get it delivered. We say put the coonskin on the wall.

I don't believe in diets, as I always put whatever I lost right back on again. I think we should all just eat healthily and get as much exercise as we can.

Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle - and success in this arena provides that person with a great opportunity to model that behavior for friends and family.

There are tiny choices that everyone can make that profoundly affect our collective water use. Like not having the tap on while brushing your teeth, not starting your shower ten minutes in advance, not doing laundry until you have a full load. In this particular issue, education really is power.

If we eat healthy and live healthy, then that's sustainable.

Even if people just change two or three things that they are able to sustain over time, it makes quite a difference eventually.

I didn't realize that diets don't work, and I did not want to diet. I didn't want to do anything that required dieting.

In the end, we must restore a balance within ourselves between who we are and what we are doing. Each of us must take a greater personal responsibility for this deteriorating global environment; each of us must take a hard look at the habits of mind and action that reflect - and have led to - this grave crisis.

I am trying to live as natural as I can with my son.

Weight Watchers is not intimidating. It's not a diet. It's a lifestyle.

If you only get money, but you don't care about a thing, right or wrong, you cannot last. That cannot sustain you for the future.

I don't want to pack everything into one year and then do nothing the rest of my life. I think it's important to do things bit by bit.

I studied with the Maharishi for many years, and really didn't learn that much. But one thing that he taught me, I'll never forget: 'ALWAYS...' no, wait-- 'NEVER...' no, wait, it was 'ALWAYS carry a litter bag in your car. It doesn't take up much room, and if it gets full, you can toss it out the window.'

Turn the damn tap off when you brush your teeth - Aargh!

I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself.

I used to be much heavier when I first started out acting and did a lot of crash dieting and a lot of crash exercise - a ton for a month before you burned out. Then I made a decision in my twenties to only do things that I can do for life, so everything's kind of in moderation for me.

Your journey to a healthier weight is not a journey that you start and then give up. It is a journey that you are living every day for the rest of your life.

No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February.

If you try to force yourself into change, then change will never stick.

Taking care of yourself turns into a lifestyle after you're done playing. So you don't just fall off the wagon.

It's more about balance for me. I used to be an all or nothing person. And now I would rather have a lifestyle change - rather than use the word 'diet' - where 90 percent of the time spend my life that way and 10 percent of the time have fun and do what my body feels like it needs or craves.

That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree.

Permanent results only come from permanent changes in lifestyle and diet style. You don't get permanently well unless you permanently change the way you live.

One of my timesaving habits is to save all of my magazines and junk mail for airplane trips. I walk on the plane with a very heavy bundle, but by the time the trip is over, it can all be thrown away.