black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

James Clear

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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

Bad Cost Future Goodness Habit Present
The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
JAMES CLEAR

Action Change Practice Way Work Yourself
Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action.
JAMES CLEAR

Action Failure Goodness Habit Identity Yourself
Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
JAMES CLEAR

Habit Life Product Success Time Transformation
The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.
JAMES CLEAR

Goal Happiness Mentality Problem Yourself
People get so caught up in the fact that they have limits that they rarely exert the effort required to get close to them.
JAMES CLEAR

Close Effort Limitation People Rare
When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
JAMES CLEAR

Better Different Inspirational Win Yourself
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.
JAMES CLEAR

Action Belief Build Evidence Identity Person Transformation Type Vote Yourself
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
JAMES CLEAR

Call Conscious Direct Fate Life Yourself
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.
JAMES CLEAR

Fall In Love Permission Product Run Satisfaction Wait Yourself
In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
JAMES CLEAR

Areas Destiny Determination Opportunity
Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
JAMES CLEAR

Enemy Friendship Goodness Habit Time Yourself
We all deal with setbacks but in the long run, the quality of our lives often depends on the quality of our habits
JAMES CLEAR

Deal Habit Live Ourselves Quality Run
Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
JAMES CLEAR

Environment Motivational Place
You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
JAMES CLEAR

Fall Goal Level Rise System Yourself
What do you want to stand for? What are your principles and values? Who do you wish to become?
JAMES CLEAR

Principle Stand Value Yourself

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More James Clear Quotes