Napoleon Hill Quotes

the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.

Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.

Once you break a habit into its components, you can fiddle with the gears.

The only way to permanently install a new habit is to direct so much energy toward it that the old one slips away like an unwelcome house guest.

The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.

It takes a good habit to replace a bad habit.

Your desired behavior must become just as much a habit as your undesired behavior was before.

Those old habits don't have to be erased, they just become replaced by a new habit that is more in vibrational harmony with who you are and what you want.

New habits can be launched.

Once you understand that habits can change, you have the freedom and the responsibility to remake them. Once you understand that habits can be rebuilt, the power of habit becomes easier to grasp and the only option left is to get to work.

Unless the desire to change remains strong, body and mind tend to return to old, familiar patterns. It takes time-from three to six months-for old habits to become obsolete. By the end of that time, you'll have adapted to a new pattern. In a sense, you'll have found a new way of life.

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

You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

Habit is overcome by habit.

The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.

Breaking old habits and forming new ones always takes time, but it is worth it in the end.

To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it.

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.

The habits that took years to build, do not take a day to change.

Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you.

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

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

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

Twenty-eight days is what is takes to break a habit and to implement a new set of habits.

I think you can change your belief, but sometimes your behavior takes a lot longer.