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- Habits - the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
- Juliene Berk
- Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.
- Author Unknown
- The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
- Ricther
- I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
- Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
- He is not great who is not greatly good.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
- T. T. Munger
- You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.
- Robert Collier
- Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.
- The Talmud
- Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
- Robert Lynd (1879 - 1949)
- The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
- Saadi (1184 - 1291)
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