"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

"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

"Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of."

- C. S. Lewis

"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

"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

"If you don't ask, the answer is always no."

- Darren Hardy

"Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, whether you feel like it or not."

- David Horsager, The Trust Edge

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

- Robin Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

"At some point, success in nearly every field requires you to ignore an immediate reward in favor of a delayed reward."

- James Clear, Atomic Habits

"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

"Although it takes a fair amount of willpower to CREATE a habit, it takes considerably (!) less to MAINTAIN it. Knowing that is gold. Then, we just need to identify the ONE behavior that will have the most positive impact in our lives and stick to it until we’ve locked it in as a habit."

— Gary Keller, The ONE Thing

"Begin to think of yourself as a magnet. Like attracts like."

— Craig Siegel, The Reinvention Formula

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

— Marie Forleo, Everything Is Figureoutable

“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.”

- Victor Frankl

"An essential universal principle: You are 100 percent responsible for your life. Always and in all ways. You are responsible for what you believe, how you feel, and how you behave. You are responsible for how you respond to the actions of others."

- Marie Forleo, Everything Is Figureoutable

"Accepting complete responsibility for your life means that you refuse to make excuses or blame others for anything in your life that you’re not happy about."

- Brian Tracy, Focal Point

"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

"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

"All of your successes and your failures are the results of the habits you have formed."

- Napoleon Hill, The Science of Success