Click the topics below to view related quotes:
Alignment • Being Present • Commitment • Consistency • Continuous Improvement • Eliminate Distractions • Evening Routine • Exercise • Fitness • Focus • Goal Achievement • Goals • Gratitude • Habits • Happiness • Inspiration • Integrity • Manifesting • Meditation • Mindfulness • Mindset • Mission • Morning Routine • No Multitasking • Nutrition • Optimism • Overcoming Fear • Perfectionism • Personal Growth • Personal Responsibility • Planning • Positive Attitude • Prioritization • Productivity • Purpose • Self Discipline • Systems, Routines & Structure • Taking Action • Time-Blocking • Time Management • Values • Vision • Visualization • Willpower
Authors: Brian Tracy • Craig Ballantyne • Darren Hardy • Hal Elrod • James Clear • Jim Rohn • Marie Forleo • Mel Robbins
View all Inspire! quotes here.
"Attention is your most precious asset, and deciding how to invest it is one of the most important decisions you can make. The good news is you can make that decision now, in this moment, and in each moment of your life."
- Robert Waldinger, The Good Life
"Attention is your most precious asset, and deciding how to invest it is one of the most important decisions you can make. The good news is you can make that decision now, in this moment, and in each moment of your life."
- Robert Waldinger, The Good Life
"Because in reality your time is finite, doing anything requires sacrifice—the sacrifice of all the other things you could have been doing with that stretch of time. If you never stop to ask yourself if the sacrifice is worth it, your days will automatically begin to fill not just with more things, but with more trivial or tedious things."
- Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks
"Because in reality your time is finite, doing anything requires sacrifice—the sacrifice of all the other things you could have been doing with that stretch of time. If you never stop to ask yourself if the sacrifice is worth it, your days will automatically begin to fill not just with more things, but with more trivial or tedious things."
- Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks
"Don’t let trivial distractions steal your days."
- Seneca
"Don’t let trivial distractions steal your days."
- Seneca
"Don’t let other people plan your day. Imagine your ideal day — then make it a reality. Plan what you want to accomplish each day, and don’t let anyone or anything interrupt your plans. Just follow your plan."
- Pat Hiban, 7 Steps to 7 Figures
"Don’t let other people plan your day. Imagine your ideal day — then make it a reality. Plan what you want to accomplish each day, and don’t let anyone or anything interrupt your plans. Just follow your plan."
- Pat Hiban, 7 Steps to 7 Figures
"Doing the work on what matters in life is what will get you the results you want."
- Craig Ballantyne, The Dark Side of Discipline
"Doing the work on what matters in life is what will get you the results you want."
- Craig Ballantyne, The Dark Side of Discipline
"Be ruthless about what you ignore. Time, energy, and resources are so precious. Every pretty good, sorta nice, kinda fun thing you abandon is like shedding a weighted vest that lets you move at top speed."
- James Clear
"Be ruthless about what you ignore. Time, energy, and resources are so precious. Every pretty good, sorta nice, kinda fun thing you abandon is like shedding a weighted vest that lets you move at top speed."
- James Clear
"All that matters in life is doing the work on what really matters. Everything else is just entertainment."
- Craig Ballantyne, The Dark Side of Discipline
"All that matters in life is doing the work on what really matters. Everything else is just entertainment."
- Craig Ballantyne, The Dark Side of Discipline
"Cut the cord. Free yourself. Set new norms that treat these technologies as what they are: poison. The new cigarettes."
- Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine
"Cut the cord. Free yourself. Set new norms that treat these technologies as what they are: poison. The new cigarettes."
- Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine
"I began to view attention as the most important ingredient we can add if we’re to become more productive, creative, and happy—at work and at home."
— Chris Bailey, Hyperfocus
"I began to view attention as the most important ingredient we can add if we’re to become more productive, creative, and happy—at work and at home."
— Chris Bailey, Hyperfocus
"You don't need to worry about progressing slowly. You need to worry about climbing the wrong mountain."
- James Clear
"You don't need to worry about progressing slowly. You need to worry about climbing the wrong mountain."
- James Clear
"To make an important change in your situation, the important thing is to establish clarity of passion and purpose—the reason why you want to change and where you want to get."
- Bill Beswick, Changing Your Story
"To make an important change in your situation, the important thing is to establish clarity of passion and purpose—the reason why you want to change and where you want to get."
- Bill Beswick, Changing Your Story
"When we know where we're going — and know that we really, really want to get there — it is much easier for us to stay on course, true to ourselves. We are more likely to say "no" to externally imposed obligations, to requests that are not aligned with our interests, to the sirens of status — and to say "yes" to the call, the voice coming from within."
- Tal Ben-Shahar, Happier
"When we know where we're going — and know that we really, really want to get there — it is much easier for us to stay on course, true to ourselves. We are more likely to say "no" to externally imposed obligations, to requests that are not aligned with our interests, to the sirens of status — and to say "yes" to the call, the voice coming from within."
- Tal Ben-Shahar, Happier
“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen.”
- Henry David Thoreau
“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen.”
- Henry David Thoreau
“The best to-do list sticks to a handful of very specific, actionable, and non-conflicting items. Schedule your number one priority first. Attack it immediately in the morning. Start there and you will win your morning hours and you will own your day.”
- Craig Ballantyne, The Perfect Day Formula
“The best to-do list sticks to a handful of very specific, actionable, and non-conflicting items. Schedule your number one priority first. Attack it immediately in the morning. Start there and you will win your morning hours and you will own your day.”
- Craig Ballantyne, The Perfect Day Formula
"Notifications are the gateway drug to distraction. The ability to focus is becoming rare—while being distracted is becoming the default."
- Cal Newport, Deep Work
"Notifications are the gateway drug to distraction. The ability to focus is becoming rare—while being distracted is becoming the default."
- Cal Newport, Deep Work
“Minimizing distractions is an important part of curbing our online procrastination. To stay really connected to our goal pursuit, we need to disconnect from potential distractions like social-networking tools. This means that we should not have Facebook, Twitter, email, or whatever your favorite suite of tools is running in the background on your computer or smartphone while you are working. Shut them off.”
- Timothy Pychyl, Solving the Procrastination Puzzle
“Minimizing distractions is an important part of curbing our online procrastination. To stay really connected to our goal pursuit, we need to disconnect from potential distractions like social-networking tools. This means that we should not have Facebook, Twitter, email, or whatever your favorite suite of tools is running in the background on your computer or smartphone while you are working. Shut them off.”
- Timothy Pychyl, Solving the Procrastination Puzzle
“Intelligence without focus is like a garden hose with no direction—nothing grows.”
- Sharran Srivatsaa
“Intelligence without focus is like a garden hose with no direction—nothing grows.”
- Sharran Srivatsaa
“If we know our priorities, we can build our routine, scripting out tomorrow today in order to maximize the time and effort spent working towards what matters.”
- Craig Ballantyne, The Perfect Day Formula
“If we know our priorities, we can build our routine, scripting out tomorrow today in order to maximize the time and effort spent working towards what matters.”
- Craig Ballantyne, The Perfect Day Formula
“Here is a trick that will give you an extra month of efficiency each year. It’s easy to implement, immediately effective, and doesn’t cost a cent. First, go to your e-mail program. Second, disable all the audio alerts and mailbox pop-ups… That’s it, there is no third step. Banishing e-mail notifications will make you about 10 percent more efficient and over a year that translates into one more month of productivity.”
- Piers Steel, The Procrastination Equation
“Here is a trick that will give you an extra month of efficiency each year. It’s easy to implement, immediately effective, and doesn’t cost a cent. First, go to your e-mail program. Second, disable all the audio alerts and mailbox pop-ups… That’s it, there is no third step. Banishing e-mail notifications will make you about 10 percent more efficient and over a year that translates into one more month of productivity.”
- Piers Steel, The Procrastination Equation