The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones. — Jerome Hines
Small habits can make a meaningful difference by providing evidence of a new identity. — James Clear
A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly and, in many cases, automatically. — James Clear
Happiness is a habit—cultivate it. — Elbert Hubbard
What matters is whether your habits are putting you on the path toward success. — James Clear
The costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future. — James Clear
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Good Habits Quotes
Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I asked the Zebra,
are you black with white stripes?
Or white with black stripes?
And the zebra asked me,
Are you good with bad habits?
Or are you bad with good habits? — Shel Silverstein
If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life. — Leo Tolstoy
If you quit once it becomes a habit. Never quit.
Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny. — Mahatma Gandhi
The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days. — Charlotte Mason
Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit. — Thomas Jordan Jarvis
True love has a habit of coming back.
It is only when looking back two, five, or perhaps ten years that the value of good habits and the cost of bad ones become strikingly apparent. — James Clear
Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action. — James Clear
Finishing our work is a good habit to develop. It boosts confidence. Despite our insecurities, the more times we can bring ourselves to release our work, the less weight insecurity has. — Rick Rubin
Don't make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what's actually good for you. — Eric Thomas
New Habits Quotes
Get into the habit of singing a tune. It will give you new life and fill you with joy. Get into the habit of dancing. It will displace depression and dispel hardship. — Nachman of Breslov
Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow. — Woody Guthrie
To change one's life:
a. Start immediately
b. B. Do it flamboyantly
c. No exceptions
Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted. — William James
Think positively; Exercise daily; Eat Healthy; Work Hard; Stay strong; Worry less; Dance more; Love often.
In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place. — Susan L. Taylor
When you start a new habit, it should take less than two minutes to do. — James Clear
Habits change into character.
Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit. — James Clear
It’s hard to change your habits if you never change the underlying beliefs that led to your past behavior. You have a new goal and a new plan, but you haven’t changed who you are. — James Clear
The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It is the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows. Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit. — James Clear
People who make a specific plan for when and where they will perform a new habits are more likely to follow through. — James Clear
Healthy Lifestyle Quotes
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being — Plato
Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul? — Billy Graham
Part of being a helathy person is being well integrated and at peace. — Candace Pert
I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person
First, modify the patient's diet and lifestyle and only then, if these do not effect a cure, treat with medicinals and acupuncture. — Sun Simiao
Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you of poor health, lethargy, and fat. — Jill Johnson
Healthy gut bacteria create a craving for healthy foods, while pathogenic bacteria create a craving for unhealthy foods. Change your microbes and you change your cravings. Change your cravings and you change your life. — Rich Roll
Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.
If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want. — Elbert Hubbard
Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle. — Sasha Cohen
Looking good and feeling good go hand in hand. If you have a healthy lifestyle, your diet and nutrition are set and you're working out, you're going to feel good. — Jason Statham
My twenties were carefree in the worst ways. There's a nice balance now of work ethic and healthy lifestyle and carefree attitude, which is pretty nice. You get to a point where you don't care so much what people think of you and you care more about yourself. — Norman Reedus
Daily Habits Quotes
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine. — John C. Maxwell
At the very least, participatory involvement with the many forms of art can enable us to see more in our experience, to hear more on normally unheard frequencies, to become conscious of what daily routines have obscured, what habit and convention have suppressed. — Maxine Greene
Success is the product of daily habits - not once in a lifetime transformation. — James Clear
No matter the economy of the jungle, the lion will never eat grass.
A slight change in your daily habits can guide your life to a very different destination. — James Clear
Many of our daily habits are imitations of people we admire. — James Clear
Recognizing that the power of will is the supreme court over all other departments of my mind, I will exercise daily when I need the urge to act for any purpose; and I will form habits designed to bring the power of my will into action at least once daily. — Bruce Lee
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
People will go to great lengths to fix their gut health, but often overlook the detrimental impact of their daily mouthwash habit. — Mark Burhenne
Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits. — Rabindranath Tagore
Good habits are developed in the workshops of our daily lives. It is not in the great moments of test and trial that character is built. That is only when it is displayed. The habits that direct our lives and form our character are fashioned in the often uneventful, commonplace routine of life. — Delbert L. Stapley
Habit is the daily battleground of character — Dan Coats
Work Habits Quotes
Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best. — Marva Collins
One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile. — Napoleon Hill
A number of years ago, when I had an exhibition of my work, the people in charge who came to pick up my manuscripts saw them piled up haphazardly in the garage and were shocked. — Akira Toriyama
Never allow waiting to become a habit. Live your dreams and take risks. Life is happening now.
I don't even know what a traditional producer is or does. I feel like the job is like being a coach, building good work habits and building trust. You want to get to a point where you can say anything and talk about anything. There needs to be a real connection. — Rick Rubin
I don't like music that much... I put on the TV. But I often play things like fast-tempo disco or Queen. — Akira Toriyama
Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off. — Mary Lou Retton
Travel is the healthiest addiction.
The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful. — Doug Henning
I would often draw in my sleep. That alone made for twice the work... — Akira Toriyama
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work. — Sarah T. Bolton
We must always bear in mind that the primary purpose of our work is not to get people to join a church, to give up their bad habits, or to do anything other than to accept Jesus Christ as their Savior. — R. A. Torrey
Healthy Living Quotes
Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you've got a kingdom. — Jack LaLanne
A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living. — Rudolf Steiner
Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. — Josh Billings
My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy. — Juliette Gordon Low
When people are living from passion, they tend to be fulfilled, happy, healthy, and love everyone around them. — Lewis Howes
I think 'vegan' is a beautiful word. It is more than just a description for our diet. I see it as a visible template for an ethical, healthy, responsible, and rational life. Because it describes our character, it says we do not take the life of another living being to satisfy our wants. — Philip Wollen
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. — Leo Tolstoy
Living healthy starts with taking the changes you want and making them things beyond want, beyond desire, to making them a must, something that must happen and it must happen now and there’s no question about it in your life. — Tony Robbins
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Veganism gives us all the opportunity to say what we "stand for" in life- the ideal of healthy, humane living. Add decades to your life, with a clear conscience as a bonus. — Donald Watson
Eating Habits Quotes
Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are. — Unknown Author
The fix is easy: breathe less. But that’s harder than it sounds. We’ve become conditioned to breathe too much, just as we’ve been conditioned to eat too much. With some effort and training, however, breathing less can become an unconscious habit. — James Nestor
Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but the routines followed are reflexively open to change in the light of the mobile nature of self-identity. — Anthony Giddens
Don’t eat anything within three to four hours of bedtime. — Valter Longo
Nutrition is not just about what we eat, it’s about how we eat, when we eat, and how our bodies process the food. — Rhonda Patrick
Men and women aged forty-five to seventy-nine who are physically active, eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, do not smoke, and consume alcohol moderately have on average one-fourth the risk of death during a given year than people with unhealthy habits. — Daniel Lieberman
I feel amazing. This is all the result of just changing my eating habits. — Joe Gatto
For the first time, our eating habits are killing more Americans than our smoking habits. — Max Lugavere
One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession. Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic, physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating. — Niyi Osundare
Healthy Choices Quotes
I keep my diet simple by sticking to mostly fruits and vegetables all day and then having whatever I want for dinner. I end up making healthy choices, like sushi or grilled fish, because I feel so good from eating well. — Sayings
We didn’t evolve to be healthy, but instead we were selected to have as many offspring as possible under diverse, challenging conditions. As a consequence, we never evolved to make rational choices about what to eat or how to exercise in conditions of abundance and comfort. — Daniel Lieberman
Permanent results come from consistency. Small choices that you make every day add up to a healthy microbiome for life. — Will Bulsiewicz
How good it is to be well-fed, healthy, and kind all at the same time. — Henry Heimlich
Luckily, eating healthy and exercise are activities I enjoy, but I still like to indulge every now and then. I don't deprive myself, but I'm thoughtful about my choices. — Miranda Kerr
Transformation is not five minutes from now; it's a present activity. In this moment you can make a different choice, and it's these small choices and successes that build up over time to help cultivate a healthy self-image and self esteem. — Jillian Michaels
In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects. — Marcus V. Pollio
In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice. — Michelle Obama
I am completely in charge of the choices I make about what I am doing to lose weight and get healthy. And you know what? We all have this power. Don’t be angry with me for something good I’ve done for myself. Be angry with yourself for not having the courage to do the same in your own life. — Jennifer Hudson
Healthy Life Quotes
To achieve the highest accomplishments within the scope of our capabilities in all walks of life we must constantly strive to acquire strong, healthy bodies and develop our minds to the limits of our ability. — Joseph Pilates
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life. — Anton Chekhov
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. — Erik H. Erikson
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. — Erik Erikson
We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good weather, to have slept well last night, to be able to get up, to be healthy, to have enough to eat. ... There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is. — David Steindl-Rast
By its very definition, civic responsibility means taking a healthy role in the life of one's community. That means that classroom lessons should be complemented by work outside the classroom. Service-learning does just that, tying community service to academic learning. — John Glenn
A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man. — Pat Paulsen
The Secret to a long and healthy life is to be stress-free. Be grateful for everything you have, stay away from people who are negative stay smiling and keep running. — Fauja Singh
When people are like, 'Life is good,' I go, 'No, life is a series of disastrous moments, painful moments, unexpected moments, and things that will break your heart. And in between those moments, that's when you savor, savor, savor.' — Sandra Bullock
Healthy Nutrition Quotes
Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food. — Hippocrates
Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means. — Maimonides
The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison — Ann Wigmore
For protein I am pretty simple, I like chicken, steak, and eggs. For carbs I love low fat popcorn. It has a lot of volume for very little calories and is very filling. It also has about 10g of fiber per bag! — Layne Norton
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. — Tom Stoppard
Food is not reward... you do not 'earn.' Training should not be punishment. Both should be enjoyable. If not, you have an unhealthy mindset. — Layne Norton
The best diet is one you don't realise you're following. — Chris Williamson
If you can control what you eat, you can control all other aspects of your life. — Joe Rogan
No matter where I am in the world or what's on my schedule, I begin each day by reading an inspirational book and then meditating and praying. I adopted this healthy habit many years ago to ensure that my first thoughts of the day were positive. — Doreen Virtue
Your social networks may matter more than your genetic networks. But if your friends have healthy habits you are more likely to as well. So get healthy friends. — Mark Hyman, M.D.
Healthy habits are learned in the same way as unhealthy ones - through practice. — Wayne Dyer
Because of the increasing rates of obesity, unhealthy eating habits and physical inactivity, we may see the first generation that will be less healthy and have a shorter life expectancy than their parents. — Richard Carmona
Looking beautiful isnt just about what you apply on your face. Its the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I dont drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good. — Madhuri Dixit
The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits. — Dan Buettner
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. — Socrates
Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all. — G. I. Gurdjieff
Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies. — Aristotle
A 'treat' is different from a 'reward', which must be justified or earned. A treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that we give to ourselves just because we want it. Treats give us greater vitality, which boosts self-control, which helps us maintain our healthy habits. — Gretchen Rubin
Eat by Choice, Not by Habit combines the author's humor, deep compassion for others and knowledge about food in a way that makes me eager to follow her lead toward healthy eating-and more importantly, toward a healthy attitude about eating. She aptly teaches us all to frame our food issues in a language that is both liberating and comforting. — Judith Hanson Lasater
When we don't nourish ourselves with fresh, healthy food, restful sleep, regular exercise, a daily spiritual practice such as meditation or journaling, and other mind-body healing habits, we will inevitably feel tired, out of balance, irritable, and sometimes even depressed. — Deepak Chopra
You gotta eat right, you gotta have healthy habits, you know, and balance out your decadence with a healthy lifestyle during the day. — Talib Kweli
Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits. — Dan Buettner
School is where children spend most of their time, and it is where we lay the foundation for healthy habits. That's why New Jersey is the first state to adopt a comprehensive school nutrition policy that bans candy, soda, and other junk food. — Richard Codey
Americans love to hear good things about their bad habits. — T. Colin Campbell
We help people to begin truly healthful diets, and it is absolutely wonderful to see, not only their success, but also their delight at their ability to break old habits and feel really healthy for a change. — Neal Barnard
The everyday brain could be dubbed "the baseline brain," because it operates at the minimum functioning to keep you alive and healthy. It controls your heart rate, your blood pressure, your immune function, all of your subconscious impulses. That's not a minor role; the baseline brain is a marvel of complexity and efficiency. But too much of it is devoted to habits, old conditioning, unconscious reflexes, and lack of self-awareness. — Deepak Chopra
Working out is a healthy habit: it helps you stay light and energetic. At least, that is how it works for me, and over the years it has been one of my greatest passions. — Rohit Shetty
I think my least healthy habit is running around too much. And I think I'm getting better about it as I'm getting older. — Cynthia Nixon
I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point does a healthy amount become too much? There are, of course, those who suffer because their desire for sex has become compulsive; in their case the drive (loneliness, guilt) is at fault, not the activity as such. When morality is discussed I invariably discover, halfway into the conversation, that what is meant are not the great ethical questions but the rather dreary business of sexual habit, which to my mind is an aesthetic rather than an ethical issue. — Edmund White
I believe that a healthy lifestyle isn't just a regular exercise routine or your eating habits, but a synergy of a healthy mind and body. — Theo Rossi
I believe that a healthy lifestyle isn't just a regular exercise routine or your eating habits, but a synergy of a healthy mind and body. To fuel my body, I am relentless about never eating anything that isn't of this Earth. I have no interest in putting stuff in my body that's made in a lab. Movement is vital. Whether it's running, cross training, hiking with the dogs, or walking the streets of New York, I am constantly active. — Theo Rossi
Healthy thinking is a habit, just like neurotic thinking is a habit. — Wayne Dyer
Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to feel the same sentiments formerly associated with that doctrine. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable. It may, for a while, be irksome to do this, but that will wear off; and the practice will produce a rich harvest forever thereafter; whether in public or private walks of life. — George Washington
I think that there are excellent and poor thinking habits just as there are healthy and unhealthy eating habits; and when a man really knows how to think, you cannot necessarily assert that he thinks too much in a strictly negative connotation. Perhaps this is in a sense food for thought, whereas the other is fool for thought. — Criss Jami
I'm taking better care of myself by eating healthy, exercising and doing my best to keep my stress level down as well as role modeling good habits for my kids. — Monica Potter
I suggest...that you develop early in life the habit of retiring and arising early. You remember the advice of Ben Franklin: "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. — Sayings
Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable. — George Washington
We need to learn how to keep people through love. Despite imperfections, sins, and irritating habits of other Christians, they belong to Jesus and they need our love as a healthy climate for growth. — John Wimber
A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Each season I find myself constantly inspired by 'The Biggest Loser' contestants. Their tenacity and willingness to learn new, healthy habits is tremendous and the results speak for themselves. I am honored to be part of such an inspiring program that helps inspire positive change in so many lives. — Curtis Stone
[M]orality is not a ritualistic obedience to a code of behavior imposed by an external authority. It is rather a healthy habit pattern that you have consciously and voluntarily chosen to impose upon yourself because you recognize its superiority to your present behavior. — Henepola Gunaratana
The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost like normal, healthy activities. — Daniel Clowes
I am no fan of books. And chances are, if you're reading this, you and I share a healthy skepticism about the printed word. Well, I want you to know that this is the first book I've ever written, and I hope it's the first book you've ever read. Don't make a habit of it. — Stephen Colbert
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