The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

Steven Pressfield

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.

Elbert Hubbard

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

Pearl S. Buck

How to be unhappy: stay inside all day, move as little as possible, spend more than you earn, take yourself (and life) too seriously, look for reasons why things won't work, always consume, never contribute, resent the lucky and successful, never say hello first, be unreliable.

James Clear

The essence of self-discipline is to do the important thing rather than the urgent thing.

Barry Werner

One's daily routine is a choice, or a series of choices. In the right hands, it can be a finely calibrated mechanism for taking advantage of a range of limited resources.

Mason Currey