“Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself. You’ll rise together.”

- From Atomic Habits by James Clear

“You should be more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.”

- From Atomic Habits by James Clear

“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”

- From Atomic Habits by James Clear

“Habits are like financial capital -- forming one today is an investment that will automatically give out returns for years to come.” 

- From The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor

“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. If you want success in your personal and professional life, create habits that bring you closer to your goals and get rid of those that are pushing you away from them.”

- From The Winner’s Mindset by Peter Nicado

“If a person is living a successful life, then that person simply has the habits in place that are creating and sustaining their levels of success…There is arguably no single skill that is more important for you to master than controlling your habits. You must identify, implement, and maintain the habits necessary for creating the results you want in your life, while learning how to let go of or replace any negative habits which are holding you back from achieving your true potential. Habits are behaviors that are repeated regularly and tend to occur subconsciously. Whether you realize it or not, your life has been, and will continue to be, created by your habits. If you don’t control your habits, your habits will control you.”

- From The Miracle Morning for Real Estate Agents by Hal Elrod

“Inspiration and motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”

- Jim Rohn

“Considering that our habits create our life, there is arguably no single skill that is more important for you to learn and master than controlling your habits. You must identify, implement, and maintain the habits necessary for creating the results you want in your life, while learning how to let go of any negative habits which are holding you back from achieving your true potential.”

- From The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod

“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. That means developing great habits. Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments, and that bridge must be crossed every day. Over time that daily crossing becomes a habit. And ultimately, people do not decide their future; they decide their habits and their habits decide their future. …”

- From 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth by John Maxwell

“You have a finite amount of focus, time, and energy to offer the world, and it can never be reclaimed once it’s spent. There’s no use in wasting your time lamenting the past, because you cannot change or control it. Rather, I urge you to focus on what’s next. Ultimately, your life will be measured by what you gave, not what you received. Don’t hold out on the rest of us—we need you to contribute. Spend your life building a body of work you will be proud of. Engage today with urgency and diligence. Plant seeds every day that will yield a harvest later. Tomorrow is only an unfulfilled wish, so live and work as if today is all you have. If you do, you will be able to lay your head down each night satisfied with your work, and in the end, you will die empty of regret, but full of satisfaction for a life well lived.”

- From Die Empty by Todd Henry

“Self-image is essentially how you view yourself—what strengths and weaknesses you believe you possess and what you believe you are capable of achieving…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. If you set the thermostat at 72 degrees Fahrenheit and the room drops to 71 degrees, the thermostat then sends a message to the heater to get to work. Warm air rushes into the room, and the room warms up to 72 degrees. When the room reaches 73 degrees, the thermostat tells the heater to stop working. All day long, the thermostat governs the temperature in the room and won’t allow the room temperature to rise or drop from the desired temperature for long. 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. Set your self-image gauge too low, and by definition, you’ll underachieve, because your mind won’t call for the motivation to achieve more…CREATE YOUR VISION OF SELF-IMAGE: Take 30 seconds every day to visualize who you want to be and how you want life to turn out, and dramatically increase the likelihood of achieving your win.”

- From Executive Toughness by Jason Selk

“The more you repeat a behavior, the more you reinforce the identity associated with that behavior.”

- From Atomic Habits by James Clear

“Building better habits isn’t about littering your day with life hacks. It’s not about flossing one tooth each night or taking a cold shower each morning or wearing the same outfit each day. It’s not about achieving external measures of success like earning more money, losing weight, or reducing stress. Habits can help you achieve all of these things, but fundamentally they are not about having something. They are about becoming someone. Ultimately, your habits matter because they help you become the type of person you wish to be. They are the channel through which you develop your deepest beliefs about yourself. Quite literally, you become your habits.”

- From Atomic Habits by James Clear

“Without a specific plan for making it happen, a dream is nothing more than a daydream. Having a viable plan for how you’re going to get from where you are to where you want to go is the quickest way to turn your wants into expectations. When you give your mind clear directions, it starts moving that way.”

- From Relentless Optimism by Darrin Donnelly

“The 5-Step Process to Get What You Want in Life:

1. Have clear goals.

2. Identify and don’t tolerate the problems that stand in the way of your achieving those goals.

3. Accurately diagnose the problems to get at their root causes.

4. Design plans that will get you around them.

5. Do what’s necessary to push these designs through to results.”

- From Principles by Ray Dalio

“Dreams + Reality + Determination = A Successful Life.”

- From Principles by Ray Dalio

“The most important quality you can develop for lifelong success is the habit of taking action on your plans, goals, ideas, and insights. The more often you try, the sooner you will triumph. There is a direct relationship between the number of things you attempt and your accomplishments in life.”

- From Goals! by Brian Tracy

“Success is goals and all else is commentary. All successful people are intensely goal oriented. They know what they want and they are focused single-mindedly on achieving it, every single day. Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow in the currents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target. … After countless talks on various themes, if I was given only five minutes to speak to you and I could convey only one thought that would help you to be more successful, I would tell you ‘Write down your goals, make plans to achieve them, and work on your plans every single day.’”

- From Goals! by Brian Tracy

“Your goals have to be impactful! If you don’t wake up in the morning emotionally charged about your goals, then you aren’t thinking big enough!”

- From Tom Ferry: Mindset, Model, and Marketing

“Learning to set goals is the master skill of success. Without goals your life is like a boat without a rudder. You drift along with the current, inevitably crashing onto the rocks time and time again. Proper goal-setting puts you in a speedboat and gives you a target to steer towards. You will go directly to your destination and arrive with great speed.”

- From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy