“It’s hard to change your habits if you never change the underlying beliefs that led to your past behavior. You have a new goal and a new plan, but you haven’t changed who you are.”

Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.

The work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you were made to do.

At some point, everyone faces the same challenge on the journey of self-improvement: you have to fall in love with boredom.

Research has shown that once a person believes in a particular aspect of their identity, they are more likely to act in alignment with that belief.

A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.

I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.

Being specific about what you want and how you will achieve it helps you say no to things that derail progress, distract your attention, and pull you off course.

The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It’s the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.

But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.

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

A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination.

Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.

Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death.

WHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?

People get so caught up in the fact that they have limits that they rarely exert the effort required to get close to them.

Put another way, the costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future.

One of the biggest misconceptions I’ve had growing up is the belief that I cannot make a difference.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

At times, I need to let go of all mistakes I made and believe that could a better person than before. -That belief is the courage I need.

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

Enough faith & belief is the key to achieve everything in life.

Release all your negative beliefs about yourself & invite wealth into your life.

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.

Change doesn’t come through punishment or shame but it comes through acceptance & belief.