"Anything you read influences your thoughts. When you consistently read and listen to positive self-improvement books and articles, you are programming your mind with the thoughts and beliefs that will support you in creating success."

— Hal Elrod, The Miracle Morning for Real Estate Agents

"Changing your beliefs doesn’t have to be hard, it just takes awareness, desire, and practice."

— Marie Forleo, Everything Is Figureoutable

"Wanting and needing things to be some way other than the way they are now is what causes all your unhappiness."

- Darren Hardy

"Are you alive, excited, and full of energy? More importantly, are you committed to having a good attitude and the right mindset every day?"

- Tom Ferry, Mindset, Model and Marketing

"Belief —> Thought —> Feeling —> Behavior —> Result. In order to solve any problem or achieve any dream, we must first make a change at the level of belief. Because when you change a belief, you change everything."

- Marie Forleo, Everything Is Figureoutable

"Essentially, the self-image governs how successful any individual becomes because it motivates and shapes work ethic and effort. In this way, self-image is like a thermostat. Human beings are the same way: we neither outperform nor underperform our self-image for long. That’s why it is so important to set your self-image gauge high enough to achieve your life goals."

- Jason Selk, Executive Toughness

"What happens to you doesn't determine your destiny. What happens to you happens to all of us. It's how you respond to what happens to you that determines your destiny."

- Jim Rohn

"The only reality anything has is the one we give it."

- Darren Hardy

"Attention, on the other hand, is life: your experience of being alive consists of nothing other than the sum of everything to which you pay attention."

- Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

"By the time you’re seventeen years old, you’ve heard “No, you can’t,” an average of 150,000 times. You’ve heard “Yes, you can,” about 5,000 times. That’s thirty nos for every yes. That makes for a powerful belief of “I can’t.”"

- John Assaraf and Murray Smith, The Answer

"Choosing to change your story from “I’m too busy” to “I have time for what matters to me” can make you see possibilities."

- Laura Vanderkam, Off the Clock

"Among the most important personal choices you can make is to accept complete responsibility for everything you are and everything you will ever be. This is the great turning point in life."

- Brian Tracy, Focal Point

"Challenges are opportunities to grow."

- Carol Dweck, Mindset

"Beliefs produce behavior, so confidence comes first."

- Dr. Nate Zinsser, The Confident Mind

"Awe opens us to changing our beliefs, allegiances, and behaviors."

- Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation

"Adversity may be necessary for growth because it forces you to stop speeding along the road of life, allowing you to notice the paths that were branching off all along, and to think about where you really want to end up."

- Jonathan Haidt

"Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable."

- Tal Ben-Shahar, Happier

"Don’t just decide what to do, decide how you will feel."

- Sharran Srivatsaa

"Act as if you were confident, optimistic, and outgoing. You’ll manage adversity, rise to the occasion, create instant connections, make friends and influence people, and become a happier person."

- Sonja Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness

"Confidence is not a guarantee of success, but a pattern of thinking that will improve your likelihood of success, a tenacious search for ways to make things work."

- John Eliot, PhD, Overachievement