If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny.

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.