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If you want a thing done, do it yourself.

Practice makes perfect.

A stitch in time saves nine.

Fortune favours the brave.

Hate has four letters, but so does love. Enemies has seven letters, but so does friends. Lying has five letters, but so does truth. Failure has seven letters, but so does success. Cry has three letters, but so does joy. Negativity has ten letters, but so does positivity. You always have a choice, so choose the better side of it.

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

Know that life is not fair and that you will fail often.

If you want to change the world, you must be your very best in the darkest moment.

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, measure a person by the size of their heart, not the size of their flippers.

If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle.

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.

If you want to change the world don’t ever, ever ring the bell.

If you want to change the world sometimes you have to slide down the obstacle head first.

But if you want to change the world, don’t be afraid of the circuses.

It is in periods like this that it behooves the people to be most watchful of those to whom they have intrusted power.

Never with my consent shall an officer of the people, compensated for his services out of their pockets, become the pliant instrument of Executive will.

If we would promise we must put ourselves in a position to perform our promise.

The general proposition that freedom of expression upon public questions is secured by the First Amendment has long been settled by our decisions.

Ideal aspirations are not enough, when uncombined with pluck and will.

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.