Do Thoughts and Habits play any part in shaping destiny??

You might think it as a weird question but keeping aside everything, it is a fact that habits do play a pivotal part in shaping character.

I remember when I was small , my father told me not to shake my legs while sitting as it is a bad habit and it really puts a bad impact of your personality on others. Then he told me a story about his childhood when his friend's mom once asked him to stop shaking legs while sitting and her words impacted my father so much that he left his habit. Of course we all know that what bad impact of nervousness this habit leaves on others.

This is one of my most favourite quotes and it is so true! Of course the quote has to be good because it is by one of the most influential figures of 19th century. This is exactly what we need to teach our kids that the very essence of a character starts from a thought and a habit.


Steven Covey's book "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" is my favourite inspirational book to date. The quotes he has mentioned about habits and character traits of humans are amazing. He has mentioned Horace Mann's quote:
Habits are like a cable.We weave a strand of it everyday and soon it cannot be broken

During our childhood, our parents emphasize again and again about good habits, bad habits and also about friends having good habits and friends having bad habits. And now after some years, we are trying to make our kids understand this because habits do have a greater impact on success of a person like if a person is habitual of losing hope after one failure, he will never succeed because hard work is associated with hope!

Another brilliant quote by Aristotle on habits:

We are what we repeatedly do.Excellence then is not an act, but a habit

If we draw an inference on this quote, then probably it means that (for example in sports)when big players win again and again, it's because they have developed a habit of winning! But obviously this habit requires a blend of many things like hard work, determination and will power.

As Allama Iqbal, the greatest philosopher  poet of subcontinent  rightly said:

The miracle of life stem from ingenuity of thought and action,
Ingenuity of thought and action covert rough stone into precious red diamond