Change of Habits Quotes

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

You try to avoid the mistakes you made in the past.

Redemption is as comprehensive as Creation and Fall. God does not save our souls while leaving our minds to function on their own. He redeems the whole person. Conversion is meant to give new direction to our thoughts, emotions, wills and habits.

You can't teach others if you are living the same way.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them fully developed in someone else.

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.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.

It's very difficult to make a 100% turnaround. It's tough when you actually do exhibit patterns of bad behavior. You need to have a very strong support system of people who are willing to keep you in your place if you're going to overcome these things.

I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.

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

Over the years I have been in a lot of trouble but I've always managed to switch off and play.

Look, I'm still a goateed guy with a bunch of tattoos, but I've got a poodle and not a pit bull. I don't kick boxes and I don't scream at other people.

In the past, I always set definitive goals for myself, but I've stopped doing that.

I used to love going out and celebrating with the lads. But we can do that in the hotel and I don't miss it. I don't feel that urge any more. Once you make the transition to not doing it then you don't miss it.

I've learned not to be as maniacal as I used to be.

I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate.

Rock bottom for some people is death. Some people never learn from their mistakes. They don't learn from other people's mistakes.

There's a grace period where being a mess is charming and interesting, and then I think when you hit around 27, it stops being charming and interesting, and it starts being kind of pathological, and you have to find a new way of life. Otherwise, you're going to be in a place where the rest of your peers have been moving on, and you're stuck.

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

I was really bad until I was 18.

I told myself that I needed to clean myself up big time.

If you experience that feeling of being in a rut in your life, then something's not right. A lot of people who feel that way don't take the time to say, 'O.K., well, what am I doing? Is that what I want to be doing? What is it making me feel this way?' You have to identify what specifically is making you feel stuck.

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