Habits

1. Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.  Stephen Covey
2. A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit.  Latin Proverb
3. Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.  Proverb
4. Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.  Elbert Hubbard
5. Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.  Nathaniel Emmons
6. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.  Aristotle
7. Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits.  Robert Puller
8. Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.  Mark Twain
9. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
    Jim Rohn
10. Nothing is stronger than habit. Ovid 

Goals 

1. Goals that are not written down are just wishes.  Unknown
2. A goal is a dream with a deadline.  Napoleon Hill
3. If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time.  Unknown
4. The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it.  Michelangelo
5. We aim above the mark to hit the mark.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.  Unknown
7. If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.  Lawrence J. Peter
8. What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.  Zig Ziglar
9. Never tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.  Unknown
10. Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.  Liz Smith 

Creativity 

1. When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on Earth. So what the hell, leap!  Peter McWilliams
2. Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work, risking, and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
    Alan Alda
3. When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.  Madeleine L’Engle
4. The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.  Dee Hock
5. To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.  Joseph Chilton Pearce
6. Another word for creativity is courage.  George Prince
7. Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.  Erich Fromm
8. Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.  Edward de Bono
9. Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.  Arthur Koestler
10. Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.  Mary Lou Cook
11. Creativity  like human life itself  begins in darkness.  Julia Cameron
12. Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.  Franklin D. Roosevelt
13. I never feel age … If you have creative work, you don’t have age or time.  Louise Nevelson
14. Sometimes you’ve got to let everything go  purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything … whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.  Tina Turner
15. The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.  Carl Jung
16. There’s room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you’re trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn’t.  Tori Amos
17. Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don’t let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.  R. I. Fitzhenry
18. You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.  Nietzsche
19. Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.  Rita Mae Brown
20. A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.  Frank Capra
21. Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.  Thomas Disch
22. Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.  William Plomer
23. Don’t let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.  Mae Jemison
24. Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.  George Bernard Shaw