Og Mandino Quotes

Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might and force of habit. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him-and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.

I think if you stop bad habits, and you stop long enough, you develop good habits.

There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.

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.

Bad habits are easy to develop but difficult to live with. Good habits are difficult to develop, but easy to live with. If you are willing to be uncomfortable for little while, so you can press past the initial pain of change, in the long run, your life will be much better.

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.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.

See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.

In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits.

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

Habits are funny things. What's funny, or rather tragic, is that bad habits are so predictable and avoidable. Despite this, there are people by the millions who insist on acquiring habits that are bad, expensive, and create problems. The habit they weren't going to get, got them!

One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones.

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

When you have the right habits, okay, certain good things will come to you, and that's what life is about.

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.

Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

The soaps are great training. You can form good habits - or you can form bad habits. You have to set your goals. If you're not clear on what you want, you can slip into bad habits. It can become a comfortable place, and you don't grow.

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

What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.

You may have decided again and again, and again and again you have failed - not because smoking is such a great phenomenon that you cannot get out of it, but because you are trying from the wrong end. Rather than becoming aware of the whole situation - why you smoke in the first place - rather than becoming aware of the process of smoking, you are simply trying to drop it. It is like pruning the leaves of a tree without cutting the roots.