Nothing is stronger than habit.

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

The way you habitually think will determine your destiny.

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

Moral virtue is the child of habit.

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

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

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.''

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

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

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.

So it is more useful to watch a man in time of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask it torn off, reality remains.

Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves . . . But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.