We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.

Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.

How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns.