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

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.

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.

The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.

The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more or less varied, which almost all contain innumerable products of the sea.

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.

Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins.

I swear there are things you can do to work on problem areas without having to think about plastic surgery.

God transforms us one area at a time.

An extraordinary life is all about daily, continuous improvements in the areas that matter most.

You’d be hard pressed to find elite achievers who don’t have coaches helping them in key areas of their life.