Repetition is certainly a requirement of life. We eat, sleep, and work or go to school every day. Sometimes we all feel like we're just going through the motions. Not surprisingly, a lot of people do just go through the motions. Some repetition is a good, necessary thing, but repetition in and of itself is not always. As Zig Ziglar puts it, if the only reason you're going to your job today is because you went yesterday then you're just getting worse each day.

But repeating certain things add up. The climb to the mountain is a repetition of small steps that eventually lead to pure elation. That saying may be old and abused, but personal development is a repetition that nobody can pass for free. We must work on ourselves each day.

But not everyone makes personal improvement a part of their daily repetition. Fortunately for you, you do! Having said that, let's look at some quotes on repetition sure to inspire, motivate, and get you thinking more!

Quotes about Repetition

But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.
Lascelles Abercrombie

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.
Simone de Beauvoir

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
Lawrence Durrell

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

Mental pleasure are never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.
Nathaniel Cotton

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
Reggie Jackson

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
W. Clement Stone

Repetition is the mother of learning.
Latin Proverb

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Earl Nightingale


After reading these quotes about repetition, are their any activities you wish you had started to make a habit by now? Begin that repetition and new habit now! Also, be sure to check out another page entitled Repetition Quotes and Quotations