Gretchen Rubin Quotes

Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do.

Habits change into character.

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.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.

Arjun's character has brought discipline in my life. Now everything happens in my life well planned. Initially, I used to get up at any time, but now I get up at appropriate time, and I keep a check on my diet.

Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits.

Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.

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

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always say, 'Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing.' There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you.

Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.

It's unfortunate, you know, that you can't change people's - habits, their personal habits.

We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then - and this is the best part - we can allow the extraordinary power of habit to take over. At that point, we're free from the need to decide and the need to use willpower.

I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.

Efficiency is a great secret that can drop us right into our ideal life path, but it is a hard one to practice and something that takes constant maintenance and work.

'The Power of Habit' is the exact kind of non-fiction I love. It's smart and interesting, and it changes your perception how you do what you do or why you are who you are.

There are things we do out of habit that are not always good for us. Break the bad habits and develop some good ones.

Staying consistent with positive habits can be a challenge.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do.

Success is determined by your daily choices and habits

Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.