Quotes about Repetition

The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true

And there hath not been any one more effectual means of bringing unholiness, with an ungodly course of conversation, into the Christian world, than this one of teaching men to satisfy themselves in this duty by their saying, reading, or repetition of the words of other men, which, it may be, they understand not, and certainly are not in a due manner affected withal; for it is this duty whereby our whole course is principally influenced.

Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”

People more often need to be reminded than informed.

Good excuses rarely collect dust. We use them, and use them, and use them.

The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.

The way anything is developed is through practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice and more practice.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.