“The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game.”

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.

Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.

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.

You don’t show up on game day and expect to be great. Greatness happens in practice. You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

You don’t get another chance, life is no Nintendo game.

The score never interested me, only the game.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can’t let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.

I’m afraid that sometimes you’ll play lonely games too. Games you can’t win ’cause you’ll play against you.