Good habits

Good habits equal good health. Bad habits weigh us down, hold us back, and prevent us from reaching our potential. Success is a good habit, some say.

So why would I blog on having good habits?

Last week in my class, the lecturer was explaining habitual buyers. Some people do things out of habit, including purchasing a product. Somehow the illustration goes to good and bad habits.

She asked us, “How many of you leave the water running while brushing your teeth?”

Then we hear some giggles around and there are some movement which either indicate that they are guilty of doing so, OR the room is just too cold?

I was once guilty of that action. Leaving the water running while brushing my teeth BUT I can proudly say now, I don’t do that anymore. I became very environmental friendly thanks to the forwarded e-mails and motivational seminars that I go to. So you can imagine me in the classroom, screening the faces of each student who are guilty of it!

"Why would this be a bad habit – leaving the water running while brushing my teeth?" You may ask. I know of people who don’t even use water to brush their teeth! That’s because they simply DON’T brush teeth. Under such circumstances, it will be difficult to illustrate good and bad habits using the above question.

The bible promotes good habits. In Proverbs 26:11, “As a dog returns to his own vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.” So having a bad habit is that dog. Go figure!

Here are some good habits quotations, I hope it encourages us to promote GOOD habits (at the same time switch off the tap when brushing your teeth-lar!)

Quotes

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle

"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit." - Desiderius Erasmus

"First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you." - Rob Gilbert

"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." - Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones." Stephen R. Covey

"Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." - Vince Lombardi

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

"Habits… the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction… You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction."- Juliene Berk

"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit." - Vince Lombardi

"I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time." -Charles Dickens

"It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away."- Kenich Ohmae

"Good habits result from resisting temptation." - Indian Proverb

"As a twig is bent the tree inclines." -Virgil

"Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny."- Tryon Edwards

"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit." -Henry Adams

"A man’s fortune has its form given to it by his habits." -Anonymous

"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of."-Anonymous

"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way." -Anonymous

"We're worn into grooves by Time—by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second rate or champions, each in his way in dispatching the affairs of every day. By choosing our habits, we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us; and these are grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness — achievement."-Frank B. Gilberth

"The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones."-William Somerset Maugham

"Habits change into character."-Publius Ovidius Naso Ovid

"A large part of virtue consists in good habits."-Barbara Paley

"Powerful indeed is the empire of habit."-Publilius Syrus

"A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time."-Mark Twain

"Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits."-Mark Twain