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“Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.”

Inspirational Differences Youth Habit Philosophical Making A Difference Teenage Good Habits Teenage Life

Author:Aristotle

“[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.”

Friendship Youth Habit Periods Sticks

Book:The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

“belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager vitality postpone the unenterprising cautions and timidities of middle age.”

Children Age Parent Middle Youth Habit Caution Persistent Vitality Middle Ages Compensation Small Child Timidity Maternity Belated

Author:Vera Brittain

“It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.”

Ifs Wells Young Work Our Lives Youth Depends Industry Habit Periods Fortune Employing

Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.”

Age Blood Youth Habit Taste Warmth

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't think too much about yourselves. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward you. Nourish your minds by good reading, constant reading. Discover what your lifework is, work in which you can do most good, in which you can be happiest. Be unafraid in all things when you know you are in the right.”

“Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.”

Wells Individual Nations Youth Habit Seeds Good Habits

Book:Collected Writings

Source: Collected Writings

“If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.”

Ifs Youth Habit Generous Dry Ridicule

Author:Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older.”

Youth Fine Habit Grateful Wine Uniqueness Be Grateful Fine Wine Like Fine Wine Flossing

Book:I Was Told There'd Be Cake

Source: I Was Told There'd Be Cake

“When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back. Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.”

People Thinking Knows Dream Hands Moving Young Behinds Car Youth Habit Get Away Frozen Coming Back Behind You Disposable Speeding Speeding Cars

Author:Margaret Atwood

“What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?”

Seems Age Desire Passion Youth Habit Consequence Stronger Violent Impulse Ardent Shattering

Book:The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol

Source: The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol

“What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man.”

Men Want Kind Has Beens Causes Known Virtue Youth Habit Goodness Be Kind Misfortunes Virtuous Charitable Unkindness

Book:Silent on the Moor

Source: Silent on the Moor

“If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it. We know full well that the insertion of new habits or the changing of old ones is the only way to preserve life, to renew our sense of time, to rejuvenate, intensify, and retard our experience of time - and thereby renew our sense of life itself. That is the reason for every change of scenery and air.”

Ifs Knows Way Years Wells Reason Past Causes Air Youth Habit Speed Preserves Scenery Retard Years Of Life New Habits Change Of Scenery

Author:Thomas Mann