"Every man is where he is by the law of his being; the thoughts which he has built into his character have brought him there, and in the arrangement of his life there is no element of chance, but all is the result of a law which cannot err."

- James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“Affirmations are one of the most effective tools for quickly programming your mind to become the person you need to be to achieve everything you want in your life. Affirmations allow you to design and then develop the mindset that you need to take any area of your life to the next level.”

- Hal Elrod, The Miracle Morning for Real Estate Agents

"Everything outside you is a reflection of your own thinking. You are the storyteller, the projector of all stories, and the world is the projected image of your thoughts."

- Byron Katie, Loving What Is

"Every man is what he is because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind. It is essential for you to encourage the positive emotions as dominating forces of your mind, and discourage—and eliminate negative emotions."

- Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

"Focus on the process (the way you spend your time) instead of the product (what you want to accomplish)."

- Barbara Oakley

"For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value."

- Carol Dweck, Mindset

"Every decision to use a portion of time on anything represents the sacrifice of all the other ways in which you could have spent that time, but didn’t—and to willingly make that sacrifice is to take a stand, without reservation, on what matters most to you."

- Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

"Fear is your real opponent. …It’s all about fear. If you kill fear, you win. If you kill fear, you have your best year ever. If you kill fear, you train like a madman. If you kill fear, you go to college for free. If you kill fear, you stand on the podium, you get paid, and you have strangers walk up to you and call you by name. When fear dies, you begin to live."

- Stan Beecham, Elite Minds

"Accept—then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life."

- Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

"Elite Performers focus on what they should do. Others focus on what happened."

- Troy Bassham, Attainment

"Fully 85 percent of your success and advancement is going to be determined by your attitude."

- Brian Tracy, Personal Success

"Everything you have in your life today you have attracted to yourself by the person you are, by the way you think. You can change your life because you can change the person you are. You can change the thoughts that you think."

- Brian Tracy, Personal Success

"You don’t need more time. You already have it. Right now, your life is exactly what your time allocation produces. If you want a different life, you need to reallocate your time toward what actually matters."

- Paul Mayer

"Good enough is almost always good enough. If you have that attitude, many problems about decisions and much paralysis melt away."

- Barry Schwartz, The Paradox of Choice

"Elite Performers focus on Solutions. Others focus on problems."

- Troy Bassham, Attainment

"Essentially, all optimism strategies involve the exercise of construing the world with a more positive and charitable perspective, and many entail considering the silver lining in the cloud, identifying the door that opens as a result of one that has closed."

- Sonja Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness

"Everything you do on a day-to-day basis, every decision you make, every action you take or fail to take, accumulates over time and ultimately manifests in your success, or lack thereof."

- Brian Tracy, Personal Success

"Either you control your mind or it controls you."

- Robin Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

"Elite Performers focus on opportunities. Others focus on obstacles."

- Troy Bassham, Attainment

"Growth begins where comfort ends."

- Paul Mayer