O God, please give us grace to do the good we must do.
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
The downside of habits is that you get used to doing things a certain way and stop paying attention to little errors.
Professionals take action even when the mood isn’t right. They might not enjoy it, but they find a way to put the reps in.
You just need enough ‘winning’ to experience satisfaction and just enough ‘wanting’ to experience desire.
Even if you’re not the most naturally gifted, you can often win by being the best in a very narrow category.
At some point, you need to make sure you’re playing the right game for your skillset.
Behavior only shifts if the punishment is painful enough and reliably enforced.
I try to remind myself of a simple rule: never miss twice.
Focus on the process rather than the results.
The more a habit becomes part of your life, the less you need outside encouragement to follow through.
The costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future.
You have to standardize before you can optimize. You can’t improve a habit that doesn’t exist.
You don’t actually want the habit itself. What you really want is the outcome the habits delivers.
If you want to master a habit, the key is to start with repetition, not perfection.
It is emotion that allows you to mark things as good, bad, or indifferent.