Old Habits Quotes

• If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.

  Charles Duhigg

  Dresses, Accepting, Easier

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• Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Steps, Window, One Step At A Time

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• The problem is that your brain can't tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it's always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.

  Charles Duhigg

  Differences, Waiting, Brain

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.20, Random House

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• You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Comforting

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.37, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Old habits are strong and jealous.

  Dorothea Brande

  Strong, Jealous, Habit

  Dorothea Brande (2016). “Becoming a Writer”, p.26, Lulu.com

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• Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.

  Therese Anne Fowler

  People, Habit

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• Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you

  Elbert Hubbard

  Advice, Should, Masters

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• As you learn to consciously observe the transformation process, you will watch yourself repeating a lot of old patterns long after you seemingly know better. Spiritually and intellectually, you realize there is another way, but emotionally you are still clinging to the old habits. This is a difficult time. Try to be patient and compassionate with yourself. When you recognize the futility of an old pattern so clearly, it's about to change! A short time later, you will suddenly begin to respond differently, in a more positive way.

  Shakti Gawain

  Long, Trying, Watches

  Shakti Gawain (2015). “The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition”, p.162, Mango Media Inc.

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• It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away.

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Life, Change, Men

  Kenichi Ohmae (1994). “The borderless world: power and strategy in the global marketplace”

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• When we consciously and deliberately develop new and better habits, our self image tends to outgrow the old habits and grow into the new pattern.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Self, Patterns, Grows

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.77, Penguin

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• As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When we do not follow the old habits of fantasy and escape, we are left facing the actual problems and contradictions of our life.

  Jack Kornfield

  Practice, Suffering, May

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• Just try walking very slowly, and you will be surprised - a new quality of awareness starts happening in the body. Eat slowly, and you will be surprised - there is great relaxation. Do everything slowly... just to change the old pattern, just to come out of old habits.

  Rajneesh

  Relaxation, Trying, Quality

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• Then one day, we’ll put the reward in the old place, and put in the rat, and, by golloy, the old habit will rememerge right away. habits never really disappear. They’re encoded into the sturctures of our brain, and that’s a huge advantage for us, because it would be awful if we had to relearn how to drive after every vacation. The problem is that your brain can’t tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it’s always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.

  Charles Duhigg

  Vacation, Differences, Waiting

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• You will stumble at time, forget what you want, fall headfirst into your old habits and beliefs. Fear not! Always remember to be patient and loving with yourself and others because that is what God does all the time.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Fall, Doe, Want

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Mar 26, 2017

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• Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Forget, Habit, Hard

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• Time will break all of the old habits and create new ones for you, and in the process, you will try to handle this immense pain with dignity (because you're that kind of girl). You actually will have to move on and you actually will be fine and that's when he may actually miss how incredible and special you are.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Pain, Moving

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• For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine.

  Robert Fulghum

  Fall, Mad, Soul

  "Handbook for the Soul". Book edited by Benjamin Shield and Richard Carlson, 1995.

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• Do you know that, until recently, poor people brought children into the world for the sole purpose of making use of them? But how can you change, by force or all of a sudden, an age-old habit? The only way is to plan births, by one means or another.

  Indira Gandhi

  Children, Mean, People

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• The fight against syphilis demands a fight against prostitution, against prejudices, old habits, against previous conceptions, general views among them not least the false prudery of certain circles. The first prerequisite for even the moral right to combat these things is the facilitation of earlier marriage for the coming generation.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Fighting, Views

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time.

  Simon Winchester

  Honest, Deadline, Stills

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• Change isn't always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.

  Bill Crawford

  Practice, Way, Easy

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• I don't always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out and I don't. But it's never too late to change old habits.

  Florence Griffith Joyner

  Ice Cream, Work Out, Too Late

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• If you've got somebody's aspects in your experience that you don't like, there's only one reason they're there. You keep evoking them with your attention to them. Without knowing about Law of Attraction, you have - through your old habit of observation - achieved vibrational harmony with the parts of them that you do not like, and you keep summoning those parts from them by your constant vibrational offering of them.

  Esther Hicks

  Law Of Attraction, Offering, Knowing

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• From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Habit, Human Bondage

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.160, Diversion Books

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• We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not so latent by fears or projections into the future, or old habits, and then I can actually stir loving-kindness or compassion in skills training too, which can be sort of provocative, I found.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Kindness, Compassion, Skills Training

  "How to Get Real Happiness: An Interview with Sharon Salzberg". Interview with Elisha Goldstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2011.

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