“Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action.”

A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.

We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.

Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement

When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running.

You need to know who you want to be.

You do it because it’s who you are and it feels good to be you. The more a habit becomes part of your life, the less you need outside encouragement to follow through.

The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.

Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.

In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.

We all deal with setbacks but in the long run, the quality of our lives often depends on the quality of our habits

You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.

Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.

Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.

The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.

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.

One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.

Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.

Things change for the better when we take responsibility for our own thoughts, decisions and actions.

A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.

Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Everybody is looking for a reason to not to take responsibility for their own actions in hand.

Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.