Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
Ancient Rule of 21: if you do anything for 21 days in a row, it will be installed as a habit.
To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
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.
Habits are like comfortable beds. They are easy to get into, but difficult to get out of.
The truth is, you don’t break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.
Try and keep on trying until that which seems difficult becomes possible and that which seems only possible becomes habit and a real part of you.
Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.
Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thought.