Change Quotes by Charles Duhigg

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

— Charles Duhigg

For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.

— Charles Duhigg

“they changed because they were embedded in social groups that made change easier.”

— Charles Duhigg

“You Can’t Extinguish a Bad Habit, You Can Only Change It.”

— Charles Duhigg

If you believe you can change - if you make it a habit - the change becomes real.

— Charles Duhigg

You have to actually believe in your capacity to change for habits to permanently change.

— Charles Duhigg

Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.

— Charles Duhigg

“A movement is a saga. For it to work, everyone’s identity has to change.”

— Charles Duhigg

We love to receive praise, but usually we're not certain what message, precisely, we should take from it. On the other hand,…

— Charles Duhigg

In 1980, a woman promised her dying sister to change how Americans thought about breast cancer. Thirty years later, the result -…

— Charles Duhigg

“If you believe you can change—if you make it a habit—the change becomes real. This is the real power of habit: the…

— Charles Duhigg

Typically, people who exercise start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues…

— Charles Duhigg

I think there's a lot of people who right now are worried that people are going down frivolous paths, like inventing new…

— Charles Duhigg

“When people start habitually exercising, even as infrequently as once a week, they start changing other, unrelated patterns in their lives, often…

— Charles Duhigg

Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.

— Charles Duhigg