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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The American over-tension and jerkiness and breathlessness and intensity and agony of expression are primarily social, and only secondarily physiological, phenomena.

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

We are all to some degree oppressed, unfree. We don't come to our own. It is there, but we don't get at it. The threshold must be made to shift.

Most of us continue living unnecessarily near our surface.

Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake.

Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.

Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives usually far within his limits; he possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.

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

Most of us may learn to push the barrier farther off, and to live in perfect comfort on much higher levels of power.

The fatigue gets worse up to a certain critical point, when gradually or suddenly it passes away, and we are fresher than before.