Creating habits

Jim Rohn - American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

James Clear - Author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Atomic Habits, which has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide

Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.

James Clear - Author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Atomic Habits, which has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide

Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement

Stephen Covey - American educator, author, businessman, and keynote speaker

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

Samuel Johnson - English writer, poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

F. M. Alexander - Australian actor

People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.

Charles Duhigg - American Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and non-fiction author.

If you believe you can change - if you make it a habit - the change becomes real.

Jeff Olson - Founder and CEO of Nerium International, owner of Live Happy and the author of The Slight Edge

The truth is, what you do matters. What you do today matters. What you do every day matters. Successful people just do the things that seem to make no difference in the act of doing them and they do them over and over and over until the compound effect kicks in. 

Jeff Olson - Founder and CEO of Nerium International, owner of Live Happy and the author of The Slight Edge

There are two kinds of habits: those that serve you, and those that don’t.

Jim Loehr - CEO, and co-founder of the Human Performance Institute

As Aristotle said: “We are what we repeatedly do.” Or as the Dalai Lama put it more recently: “There isn’t anything that isn’t made easier through constant familiarity and training. Through training we can change; we can transform ourselves.

Jim Loehr - CEO, and co-founder of the Human Performance Institute

Barriers to full engagement: Negative habits that block, distort, waste, diminish, deplete and contaminate stored energy.

Kelly McGonigal - Health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University

A short practice that you do every day is better than a long practice you keep putting off to tomorrow.

Marcus Aurelius - Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher

Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. 

Ernest Holmes - American New Thought writer, teacher, and leader

The mind is a magnet and we attract that with which we identify the self. In order to get the most out of life we must learn consciously to change many of our habitual thought patterns. This is not easy, for our old thought patterns cling to us with great tenacity, but, being thought patterns, they can be reversed. If you are filled with fear, refill yourself with faith, for faith always overcomes fear.

Jocko Willink - American retired naval officer who served in the Navy SEALs. He is also a podcaster and author

Discipline equals freedom.

Jocelyn K. Glei - Writer who's obsessed with work, careers & creativity

What I do every day matters more than what I do once in a while.

Jocelyn K. Glei - Writer who's obsessed with work, careers & creativity

We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period, provided we work slowly and consistently.

David Brooks - Political and cultural commentator who writes for The New York Times

We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness.

Alex Korb - Neuroscientist, writer and coach

For the first thirty years of your life you make your habits. For the last thirty years of your life, your habits make you.

Mark Divine - Creator and founder of SEALFIT and The Unbeatable Mind Academy

Consistency is the omnipotent force behind change.

T. Harv Eker - Author, businessman and motivational speaker known for his theories on wealth and motivation

If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.

Jim Loehr - World-renowned performance psychologist

Rituals also help us to create structure in our lives.

Marci Shimoff - Celebrated transformational leader and motivational expert

Taking ownership of your happiness has two aspects: Accepting that being happy is up to you and that you have the ability and power to be happier by changing your habits. Taking "response-ability": responding to all the events in your life in a way that supports your happiness.

Sonja Lyubomirsky - American professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside and author of the bestseller The How of Happiness

If we observe genuinely happy people, we shall find that they do not just sit around being contented. They make things happen. They pursue new understandings, seek new achievements, and control their thoughts and feelings. In sum, our intentional, effortful activities have a powerful effect on how happy we are, over and above the effects of our set points and the circumstances in which we find themselves. If an unhappy person wants to experience interest, enthusiasm, contentment, peace, and joy, he or she can make it happen by learning the habits of a happy person.

Sonja Lyubomirsky - American professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside and author of the bestseller The How of Happiness

Every day you have to renew your commitment. Some of the strategies should become habitual over time and not a huge effort.

Napoleon Hill - American self-help author. He is known best for his book Think and Grow Rich which is among the 10 best selling self-help books of all time

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

William Glasser - American psychiatrist

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century

Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.

Mark Divine - Creator and founder of SEALFIT and The Unbeatable Mind Academy

Consistency is the omnipotent force behind change.

Brian Tracy - Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development author.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

Bill Harris - Involved in personal development for nearly 40 years as a seeker, teacher, public speaker, author, musician, composer, therapist, workshop leader, and business owner

Transformation doesn’t necessarily reward watchfulness. It does, however, reward daily practice.

Katy Bowman - An internationally recognized biomechanist, author, and science communicator

Watch your habits, for they become your posture. Watch your posture, for it creates your boundaries. Watch your boundaries, for they restrict your growth. Watch your restrictions, for they create immobility. Watch your immobility, for it becomes your illness.

Ben Bergeron trains some of the world's fittest athletes. A former Ironman triathlete turned CrossFit Games competitor, Ben has coached athletes to six world championships

Like everything else, excellence is a habit.

John C. Maxwell - American author, speaker, and pastor who has written many books, primarily focusing on leadership

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Robert B. Cialdini - Regents' Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Marketing at Arizona State University and was a visiting professor of marketing, business and psychology at Stanford University, as well as at the University of California at Santa Cruz leader vision

Often we don’t realize that our attitude toward something has been influenced by the number of times we have been exposed to it in the past.

Thomas M. Sterner - Founder and CEO of the Practicing Mind Institute. As a successful entrepreneur, he is considered an expert in Present Moment Functioning

Habits are learned. Choose them wisely.

Rory Vaden - One of the top 100 leadership speakers in the world according to Inc. Magazine. He is a Hall of Fame motivational speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and has a TEDx talk with millions of views. Rory is a recognized expert and speaker on business strategy and leadership

“Winning is a habit; unfortunately so is losing.” Some people have the habit of victory and success, and although we’d like to believe that these people have a glamorizing mystical power, the truth is much more basic than that: They commit to whatever it is they want to do. If you ask me, that is the more impressive part—that they can commit and exercise self-discipline in just about anything they do. So, you must crush it where you’re at. You must dominate whatever it is that you are doing. You must do everything in your power to reach the top of whatever game it is you are playing.

Steven Pressfield - American author of historical fiction, non-fiction, and screenplays

The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.

Darren Hardy - American author, keynote speaker, advisor, and former publisher of SUCCESS magazine. Hardy is a New York Times best-selling author, who wrote The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster, Living Your Best Year Ever and The Compound Effect

The Compound Effect is the principle of reaping huge rewards from a series of small, smart choices.

Darren Hardy - American author, keynote speaker, advisor, and former publisher of SUCCESS magazine. Hardy is a New York Times best-selling author, who wrote The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster, Living Your Best Year Ever and The Compound Effect

And as long as you’re making choices unconsciously, you can’t consciously choose to change that ineffective behavior and turn it into productive habits.

Pete Carroll - American football coach who is the head coach and executive vice president of the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League. He was previously the head coach at USC, where he won six bowl games and a BCS National Championship Game

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Kelly McGonigal - Health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University who is known for her work in the field of 'science help' which focuses on translating insights from psychology and neuroscience into practical strategies that support health and well-being. creator of reality

Most of our choices are made on autopilot, without any real awareness of what’s driving them, and certainly without serious reflection on their consequences.

Earl Nightingale - American radio speaker and author, dealing mostly with the subjects of human character development, motivation, and meaningful existence

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

Orison Swett Marden - American inspirational author who wrote about achieving success in life and founded SUCCESS magazine in 1897. His writings discuss common-sense principles and virtues that make for a well-rounded, successful life. Many of his ideas are based on New Thought philosophy

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.