“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny.