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

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.

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.

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.

Gun violence in Chicago is unacceptable. It threatens everything we have done together and all of the progress we have made in other areas.

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.