We first make our habits, then our habits make us.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants ''success consciousness'' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing ''habit of success.''

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting and achieving goals.

Moral virtue is the child of habit.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story.

There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.