“Goal achievement has to do with only two things: Managing where your attention goes, and managing where your effort goes. That’s it. Our job is to continuously reprioritize, reorganize, and optimize those two things.”

- Sharran Srivatsaa

“Act as if failure is impossible, and your success will be assured. Wipe out every thought of not achieving your objectives, whether they are material or spiritual. Be brave, set no limits on the workings of your imagination. Never be a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. You will never be the same.”

- Robin Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

“If you are what you repeatedly do, then achievement isn't an action you take but a habit you forge into your life.”

- Gary Keller & Jay Papasan, The ONE Thing

“The difference between people who make their dreams come true and those of us who don’t is just one thing: the courage to start and the discipline to keep going.”

- From The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins

“Spending time with other high-performers is one of the fastest ways to achieve your personal and professional goals and level up your life.”

- From The Perfect Week Formula by Craig Ballantyne

“Focus precedes success in all situations.”

- From Success Habits For Dummies by Dirk Zeller

“Focus always comes before success. Very little is accomplished without removing what we don’t want so that we focus on what we truly do.”

- From Success Habits For Dummies by Dirk Zeller

“The great truth in life throughout history is this: People with goals succeed and people without goals then fail.”

- From Success Habits For Dummies by Dirk Zeller

“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or worthy ideal.”

- Earl Nightingale

“Success is created through consistency turned into repetition.”

- From Success Habits For Dummies by Dirk Zeller

“Will-power and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.”

- From Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

“Success begins with figuring out what you want, then making the choices that will get you there.”

- Shellye Archambeau

"Plans are the threads that weave the fabric of achievement."

- Liane Cordes

“If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you.”

- Jim Rohn

"The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

- William Jennings Bryan

“Make sure that you have a clear goal in mind and prioritize your actions around achieving the goal. What do I need to be doing more of? What do I need to be doing less of? What habits do I need to start? What is one habit you could start tomorrow that would improve how you performed in your personal and your professional life? What habits do I need to stop?”

- From Tom Ferry: Mindset, Model, and Marketing

“Here’s one way to approach it: Push the ultimate desired outcome off into an unknowable future horizon then break the big goal down into smaller chunks. Identify THE next most important little domino that needs to get knocked over. Set a challenging but realistic target for THAT goal, then figure out the PROCESS you need to engage in on a daily basis to hit that goal and voila! You’re an instant success as you show up and take the next baby step, remembering to celebrate the small wins as you create a feeling of continuous achievement. Remember: We want that inspiring, jumbo-huge goal to serve as a RUDDER pointing us in the right direction as we practice staying fully engaged in one moment after the other. That’s much better than using our unrealistic goal as a measuring stick that depletes our energy as we worry about why we’re not already at our goal.”

- Brian Johnson, Heroic.us

“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” 

- W. P. Kinsella

“We all say that we want to succeed, but sooner or later our level of activity must equal our level of intent. Talking about achievement is one thing; making it happen is something altogether different. Some people seem to take more joy in talking about success than they do in achieving it. It is as though their ritualistic chant about someday lulls them into a false sense of security, and all the things that they should be doing and could be doing on any given day never seem to get done. The consequences of this self-delusion have their own inevitable price. Sooner or later the day will arrive when they will look back with regret at all those things they could have done, and meant to do, but left undone. That is why we must push ourselves in the present to experience the milder pain of discipline. We will all experience one pain or the other—the pain of discipline or the pain of regret—but the difference is that the pain of discipline weighs only ounces while the pain of regret weighs tons.”

- Jim Rohn

“Discipline is the foundation on which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure. Discipline is the master key. It unlocks the door to wealth and happiness, culture and sophistication, high self-esteem and high accomplishment, and the accompanying feelings of pride, satisfaction, and success. Even the smallest discipline can have an incredible effect on your attitude.”

- From 7 Strategies for Wealth and Happiness by Jim Rohn