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You can do what you want to do, and it is your right and privilege to follow the business or avocation which will be most congenial and pleasant.

There is no short cut to the making of these ideals into glad realities.

If you want a thing done, do it yourself.

A stitch in time saves nine.

Practice makes perfect.

Start each day with a task completed. Find someone to help you through life. Respect everyone.

If you make your bed every morning you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride, and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another.

Making your bed will also reinforce the fact that little things in life matter.

If you can’t do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.

SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status.

If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.

Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.

The spectacle of effort is what awakens and sustains our own effort.

The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.

We have evidently tapped a level of new energy, masked until then by the fatigue-obstacle usually obeyed.

We live subject to arrest by degrees of fatigue which we have come only from habit to obey.

The normal opener of deeper and deeper levels of energy is the will.

The busiest man needs no more hours of rest than the idler.

But a man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body.

Nature does not give us our livelihood gratis; we must win it by toil of some sort or degree.