Oscar Wilde Quotes

Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.

Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement.

We want to design interventions to teach people how to harness their considerable willpower.

I don't need to tell stories about how I prepare or manage myself.

You want to keep doing better every day.

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

You make New Year's resolutions. And you make them into the teeth of old resolutions which were different. Then you don't keep your new resolutions and you tell yourself you are weak-willed. You aren't weak-willed, you are simply obeying yourself as of yesterday.

Many people have trouble sticking to their resolutions, and there is a simple scientific explanation for this. In 1987, a team of psychologists conducted a study in which they monitored the New Year's resolutions of 275 people. After one week the psychologists found that 92 percent of the people were keeping their resolutions; after two weeks we have no idea what happened because the psychologists had quit monitoring.

The problem with resolutions is they're only as solid as the person making them.

Resolutions are flying like snowflakes around here.

Coaching really is an individual philosophy.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.

I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.

If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks.

I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing and seeing how far I can go.

Every day I am trying to improve my life.

Resolutions are a wonderful thing if we can keep them, but many resolutions go by the wayside because we have not done anything different with our mindset.

Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep.

Happiness just doesn't happen. You have to force yourself.

New Year's Resolutions come and go. Some we keep, some we don't. In order to make lasting changes in our lives, we must first change our minds. We sometimes forget, and we often feel stuck, but we all have the power to do so.