“Progress equals happiness.”

- Tony Robbins

“Every adversity is an opportunity for us to learn, grow, and become better than we’ve ever been before.”

- Hal Elrod

“When climbing a mountain, define each step in the right direction as success. Many small successes add up.”

- Dan Millman

“Never be satisfied. Work consistently to improve. Perfection is a goal that can never be reached, but it must be the objective. The uphill climb is slow, but the downhill road is fast.”

- From Wooden on Leadership by John Wooden

“To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.”

- From Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

“Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.”

- Brian Tracy

“Personal success is built on the foundation of character, and character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you are at any given moment into who you want to be.”

- From Leading an Inspired Life by Jim Rohn 

"Live the Pareto Principle lifestyle:

Relationships. Who are the few people that have the most positive impact on my life? Spend more time with them.

Priorities. What are the few actions that have the most positive impact on my day? Prioritize them.

Learning. What are the few information sources I learn the most from? Focus on them.

Stress. What are the few sources that cause most of the stress and friction in my life? Eliminate them."

- James Clear

“Some of our best intentions fail because we don’t have a system of execution. When it comes down to it, your new attitudes and behaviors must be incorporated into your monthly, weekly, and daily routines to affect any real, positive change. A routine is something you do every day without fail, so that eventually, like brushing your teeth or putting on your seatbelt, you do it without conscious thought. These routines ease life’s stresses by making our actions automatic and effective. To reach new goals and develop new habits, it’s necessary to create new routines to support your objective. The greater the challenge, the more rigorous our routines need to be….A daily routine built on good habits and disciplines separates the most successful among us from everyone else.”

- From The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy

“Replacing just a few key negative habits with a few positive habits can easily be the difference between being mostly unhappy and being happy almost all of the time.”

- From Superhuman by Habit by Tynan

“Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.”

- From Focal Point by Brian Tracy

“Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. The same way that money multiplies through compound interest, the effects of your habits multiply as you repeat them. They seem to make little difference on any given day and yet the impact they deliver over the months and years can be enormous. It is only when looking back two, five, or perhaps ten years later that the value of good habits and the cost of bad ones becomes strikingly apparent.”

- From Atomic Habits by James Clear

“Making a choice that is 1 percent better or 1 percent worse seems insignificant in the moment, but over the span of moments that make up a lifetime these choices determine the difference between who you are and who you could be. Success is the product of daily habits- -not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.”

- From Atomic Habits by James Clear

“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.”

- From Atomic Habits by James Clear

“You have the power to change your beliefs about yourself. Your identity is not set in stone. You have a choice in every moment. You can choose the identity you want to reinforce today with habits you choose today.”

- From Atomic Habits by James Clear

“Habits are like financial capital -- forming one today is an investment that will automatically give out returns for years to come.” 

- From The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor

“The more you repeat a behavior, the more you reinforce the identity associated with that behavior.”

- From Atomic Habits by James Clear

“Building better habits isn’t about littering your day with life hacks. It’s not about flossing one tooth each night or taking a cold shower each morning or wearing the same outfit each day. It’s not about achieving external measures of success like earning more money, losing weight, or reducing stress. Habits can help you achieve all of these things, but fundamentally they are not about having something. They are about becoming someone. Ultimately, your habits matter because they help you become the type of person you wish to be. They are the channel through which you develop your deepest beliefs about yourself. Quite literally, you become your habits.”

- From Atomic Habits by James Clear

“The two strategies used by almost all great achievers are:

1. An unyielding commitment to constant learning; and

2. Clearly written goals that have specific plans laid out to achieve them.”  

- From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy