Environment Quotes
Wisdom grows in quiet places.
Austin O'Malley
World view and environment dictates choices.
Environment can multiply (or divide) your effort.
Environment is the invisible hand that shapes human behaviour.
James Clear
Behaviour is a function of the person in their environment.
Kurt Lewin
You don’t rise to the level of your willpower. You fall to the level of your environment.
The most information-rich environment is the most relaxing – nature.
David Allen
If we cannot succeed in our present position, we could not succeed in any other.
Helen Keller
If we do not create and control our environment, our environment creates and controls us.
Marshall Goldsmith
When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows. Not the flower.
Alexander den Heijer
You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.
James Clear
Unless we can help the world where we are, we could not help it if we were somewhere else.
Helen Keller
In the long-run (and often in the short-run), your willpower will never beat your environment. The more disciplined your environment is, the less disciplined you need to be. Don't swim upstream.
James Clear
Consistency cannot be guaranteed, but you can create the conditions to make it more likely. Before you try to become a more disciplined person, how are you creating a more disciplined environment?
James Clear
Greatest hapiness…does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed them, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
Augustine
The disciplined life looks impressive, but the well-designed life lasts longer. Before you try to find more willpower, design your environment and arrange your day so you're more likely to follow through.
James Clear
The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
The most important question is not the sort of environment we have, but the kind of thoughts we think every day, the kind of ideals we are following…the kind of men and women we really are.
Helen Keller
Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place; and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
Petrarch
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
William James
Nothing will influence your behaviour and health more than your environment. More so than depending on self-control and discipline, create a more disciplined environment. Your self-control will always be better when your environment doesn’t require you to depend on it.
I have learned by some experience, by many examples, and by the writings of countless others before me, also occupied in the search, that certain environments, certain modes of life, certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.
Ann Morrow Lindbergh
Do not merely think that you are going to become great; think that you are great now. Do not think that you will begin to act in a great way at some future time; begin now. Do not think that you will act in a great way when you reach a different environment; act in a great way where you are now. Do not think that you will begin to act in a great way when you begin to deal with great things; begin to deal in a great way with small things.
Wallace Wattles