We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.

When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.

Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life