“With outcome-based habits, the focus is on what you want to achieve. With identity-based habits, the focus is on who you wish to become.”

Your culture sets your expectation for what is normal. Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself.

Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.

Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.

You don’t have to build the habits everyone tells you to build. Choose the habit that best suits you, not the one that is most popular.

Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Find a way to get started in less than two minutes.

Habits are like the atoms of our lives. Each one is a fundamental unit that contributes to your overall improvement.

At some point it comes down to who can handle the boredom of training every day, doing the same lifts over and over and over.

Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.

True long-term thinking is goal-less thinking. It’s not about any single accomplishment. It is about the cycle of endless refinement and continuous improvement.

Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.

Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.

Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.

If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.

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

A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.

We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won’t ever be perfect – but in the process we will achieve greatness.

Let’s not close our eyes to those with special needs. Instead, let’s be a pillar of support and empower them to achieve everything they seek.‬

You will not achieve happiness if you don’t work hard; and it’s a shame not to want to work hard.

You and only you know the pain you are willing to endure to achieve what others think is the impossible.

The success I’ve achieved comes to me from God.

If we’re going to achieve the change we need, we must elect strong progressives to Congress.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.