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“When we know something that needs to be done but isn't currently getting done, we often say, I just need more discipline. Actually, we need the habit of doing it. And we need just enough discipline to build the habit.”

Knows Needs Done Enough Motivation Habit Discipline

Author:Gary W. Keller

“The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.”

Enough Motivation Habit Discipline Tricks

Author:Gary W. Keller

“There is magic in knocking down your most important domino day after day. All you have to do is avoid breaking the chain, one day at a time, until you generate a powerful new habit in your life.”

Important Motivation Powerful Magic Habit One Day Chains Knocking One Day At A Time New Habits

Author:Gary W. Keller

“Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions.... Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself what such and such an amusement leads to, as it is essential to have an objective in everything you do. Any pastime that contributes nothing to bodily strength or to mental alertness is a totally ridiculous, not to say, idiotic, pleasure.”

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Author:Lord Chesterfield

“When kids are young, before the age of ten, there is a critical window of opportunity when their habits and motivations can be influenced.”

Kids Age Young Motivation Opportunity Habit Ten Window Critical Window Of Opportunity

Author:Richard Attias

“Some entrepreneurs have a bad habit of taking personal credit for all improvements and innovations at their startups. If you penalize or ignore employee initiatives, you can be certain that they won't be repeated, and motivation for more conventional performance will suffer.”

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Author:Martin Zwilling

“I don't know about habit, we've had a practice of it for as long as I've been doing this program [the Rush Limbaugh show], and a lot of the motivation for it is defensive.”

Knows Long Shows Motivation Practice Habit Program

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Delving deeper into character's motivations one thing I always find helpful is to imagine the person as a child, imagine them at a very early stage, prior to having all of the things taken away from them, or all of the habits put onto them that they end up having, and then going from there.”

Children Motivation Taken Imagine Habit Helpful

Author:Luke Kirby

“Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.”

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Author:Jules Renard

“Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.”

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Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations