Anyone that genuinely knows me knows that I am a big fan of Henry David Thoreau, one of my favorite quotes by him is:

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

For me this quote means a lot of different things but for one, this quote reminds me of Aristotle's principles of what constitutes ethical behavior, in that according to Aristotle ethical/moral people are those that practice ethical behaviors every day. Thoreau's quote has some of the same ideas in that it is one thing to think of doing something but it is more important to act. Sometimes if I am procrastinating on doing work that I know needs to be done I can think about this quote and it will motivate me to do something productive with my life. One, because I know that i do want to make a difference in my lifetime so before I can actually make that difference I have to go thought a lot of things that I may consider tedious but, that are necessary. Secondly, the quote reminds me that I have to get in the habit of making good habits in order to be the person I feel I need/want to be.
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