"Everything that happens to you or for you in your life happens for specific causes, which lead to the effects that make up your life as it is today. If you want to change the effects, you must change the causes. If you want to change what you are getting out, you must change what you are putting in."

— Brian Tracy, Personal Success

"Having goals in and of themselves is strongly associated with happiness and life satisfaction."

— Sonja Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness

"I keep my mind so busy thinking about what I wish to accomplish that there is no room in it for thinking about things I don’t want."

— Henry Ford

"Elite Performers manage their time and stick to a schedule. Others mismanage their time and don’t have a schedule."

— Troy Bassham, Attainment

"Having a set work schedule creates a clear distinction between work and personal time, reducing stress and increasing overall satisfaction with both aspects of life."

- Cal Newport, Deep Work

"I continually ask myself a very powerful self-coaching question: ‘What would the person who is the best in the world at what I do be doing in this very moment?’"

— Darrin Donnelly

“Happiness leads to success in nearly every domain of our lives, including marriage, health, friendship, community involvement, creativity, and in particular, our jobs, careers, and businesses. Data abounds showing that happy workers have higher levels of productivity, produce higher sales, perform better in leadership positions, and receive higher performance ratings and higher pay.”

- Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage

"Every time you push yourself to speak when you’re nervous, act when you’re afraid, or get to the gym when you don’t feel like it, you realize that you can rely on yourself to get anything done. From this belief in your personal abilities flows your confidence."

— Mel Robbins, The 5 Second Rule

"In the end, it’s not about what you achieve but who you become."

— Bill Beswick, Changing Your Story

“The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image…We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.”

- Brian Tracy

"From television and Internet alone, we’re exposed to more stimuli in a week than our Paleolithic ancestors were exposed to in a lifetime."

— Albert Villoldo, One Spirit Medicine

"Every thought-seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and to take root there, produces its own, blossoming sooner or later into act, and bearing its own fruitage of opportunity and circumstance. Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit."

— James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

"Creating structure—by developing what I call the rules for your life—is the most important step in becoming more productive and less stressed. Structure is essential to earning your freedom. Your rules will lead you out of temptation, help you make the right decisions instinctively, and fuel your willpower to deal with the chaos of the day."

— Craig Ballantyne, The Perfect Day Formula

"Each evening, compose a list of things you will do the next day. This prepares you for a productive morning and a successful day."

— Brian Tracy, Master Your Time, Master Your Life

"Focus your finest efforts on the one or two goals that will make all the difference, instead of giving mediocre effort to dozens of goals. Execution starts with focus."

— The 4DX Guys

"...information consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it."

— Herbert Benson

"Finally, surveys show, and large-scale randomized interventions confirm, that exercise may very well be the most effective instant happiness booster of all activities."

— Sonja Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness

"Everything that happens to us—good and bad—is our personal responsibility. We can blame no one else. These are the choices we’ve made—this is the life we’re living. We will accept the consequences of our actions."

— Craig Ballantyne, The Perfect Day Formula

"Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak."

— Tal Ben-Shahar, Happier

"Each night, plan your tomorrow, and you will wake up with a clear direction and purpose."

— Michael Hyatt, Free to Focus