Habits change into character.

Most bold change is the result of a hundred thousand tiny changes that culminate in a bold product or procedure or structure.

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do.

They [the Americans] have all a lively faith in the perfectibility of man, they judge that the diffusion of knowledge must necessarily be advantageous, and the consequences of ignorance fatal; they all consider society as a body in a state of improvement, humanity as a changing scene, in which nothing is, or ought to be, permanent; and they admit that what appears to them today to be good, may be superseded by something better tomorrow.

You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others—it only changes yours.

Change, But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed.

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.

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

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit.

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.

Moral virtue is the child of habit.

It is a hard thing to leave any deeply routined life, even if you hate it.