Mark Twain

Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Topic: Goals, Habits
Location: Lake Tahoe
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. — Mark Twain

To breathe the same air as the angels, you must go to Tahoe. — Mark Twain

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

› Mark Twain

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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. — Samuel Johnson

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Victory belongs to the most persevering. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time. — Voltaire

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A winner never taught me how to quit.

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You have brains in your head. You have feed in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. — Dr. Seuss

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When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them. — Confucius

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We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do things, we can accomplish those goals.

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If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done. — Thomas Jefferson

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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

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It is far easier to start something than it is to finish it. — Amelia Earhart

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Little strokes, fell great oaks. — Benjamin Franklin

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Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment. — Viktor Frankl

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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough. — T. S. Eliot

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Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters. — Nathaniel Emmons

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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. — Epictetus

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Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses. — George Washington Carver

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So is cheerfulness, or good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Seize the very first opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain. — William James

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So of cheerfulness, or good temper, the more it is spent the more it remains. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time. — Thomas Jefferson

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My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

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