Habits Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It has been written that so much of life is preparation, so much is routine, and so much is retrospect that the purest essence…

— Anonymous

For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.

— Jonathan Nolan

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

— Henry David Thoreau

Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our…

— Samuel Johnson

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time of the…

— Joseph Addison

There is a genius in every man and woman, waiting to be brought forth.

— Wallace D. Wattles

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

— Anonymous

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of…

— Leonardo da Vinci

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily…

— Beryl Markham

Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce a prodigious…

— Walter Russell

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

— Herbert Beerbohm Tree