First we make our habits, ...

First we make our habits, then our habits make us.
First we make our habits, then our habits make us.
 John Dryden

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[The Jews] tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.
 Bashar al-Assad
The Warrior Diet is the only diet today that challenges all common dietary concepts and offers a real alternative—guidelines that are not based on superficial restrictions, but rather on true principles of human nutrition.
 Ori Hofmekler
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.
My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.
 John Wesley

Quotes from the same author

Fortune befriends the bold.
 John Dryden
A thing well said will be wit in all languages.
 John Dryden
Men are but children of a larger growth.
 John Dryden
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
 John Dryden
Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
 John Dryden