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Rest and recreation are also necessary to his physical life.

Do all that you can do in a perfect manner every day, but do it without haste, worry, or fear. Go as fast as you can, but never hurry.

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.

Do, every day, all that you can do that day, and do each act in an efficient manner.

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

A stitch in time saves nine.

Practice makes perfect.

Many hands make light work.

Look before you leap.

If you want a thing done, do it yourself.

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.

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

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

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.

When he undertakes to play a part on the stage, and to persuade the world to think more about him than they do about themselves, he is got into a track where he will find nothing but briars and thorns, vexation and disappointment.

Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility.

Unclamp, in a word, your intellectual and practical machinery, and let it run free; and the service it will do you will be twice as good.

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

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.

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

Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be.

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

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it.