George A. Sheehan Quotes

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.

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

Procrastinating is a habit that I have to overcome.

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

The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.

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.

Many men and women in the world demonstrate great willpower and self-discipline in overcoming bad habits and the weaknesses of the flesh.

Self-reform is the only kind that works.

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.

You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being and that of your family and your country.

People change when they tell themselves they have to change. People do not change when you tell them they have to change.

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

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

It is extremely hard to break bad habits and takes a long time to start new, healthy ones.

A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.

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

If we want to change what people think of us, then we have got to change.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

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.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.

I've developed a self-discipline since the time I was a child.