Theodore Parker Quotes

Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.

Man's society is an ecology that forces adaptation to it.

To endeavor to rehabilitate the sabbath of our forefathers is as foolish as to try to make people go back into log houses and cook in a fire-place. Some persons can never realize that the world grows; that what was a help to one age becomes a hindrance to another; that time corrects the mistakes of men and that respect and reverence for our ancestors does not necessarily require us to adopt their clothes or their habits.

The key to Zeppelin's longevity has been change.

The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might and force of habit. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him-and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.

All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.

Both success and failure are largely the results of HABIT!

that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there. Make motivation a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip.

We're going to have to change our traditions, our history.

If you consistently and persistently do the things that other successful people do, nothing in the world can stop you from being a big success also.

The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.

If you plan to excel in big things, you have to develop the habit in the small ones.

People try new things all the time. By now, the people who succeed have to be very sophisticated.

In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedeth all others is - I will form good habits and become their slave.

When you have a challenge and the response is equal to the challenge, that's called 'success'. But once you have a new challenge, the old, once-successful response no longer works. That's why it is called a 'failure'.

Nature has a funny way of breaking what does not bend.

Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success.

Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.

You'd better stay determined, because that's how our ancestors got us where we are.

Make the second effort your second nature.

If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life.

The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.

It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.

We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.