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“Success isn’t that difficult; it merely involves taking twenty steps in a singular direction. Most people take one step in twenty directions.”
― Benjamin Hardy, Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success

“You shape the garden of your mind by planting specific things from your environment, such as the books you read, experiences you have, and people you surround yourself with.”
― Benjamin Hardy, Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success

“If you want a different life, you must be a different person.”
― Benjamin Hardy, Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success

“True self-confidence is “the courage to be open—to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source.” Real self-confidence is not reflected in a title, an expensive suit, a fancy car, or a series of acquisitions. It is reflected in your mindset: your readiness to grow.”
― Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

“it’s not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.”
― Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: How You Can Fulfil Your Potential

“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

“Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

“You alone are responsible for what you do, don’t do, or how you respond to what’s done to you.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

“Forget about willpower. It's time for why-power. Your choices are only meaningful when you connect them to your desires and dreams. The wisest and most motivating choices are the ones aligned with that which you identify as your purpose, your core self, and your highest values. You've got to want something, and know why you want it, or you'll end up giving up too easily.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“Small, Smart Choices + Consistency + Time = RADICAL DIFFERENCE”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

“It's not the big things that add up in the end; it's the hundreds, thousands, or millions of little things that separate the ordinary from the extraordinary.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“In essence, you make your choices, and then your choices make you.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

“The first step toward change is awareness. If you want to get from where you are to where you want to be, you have to start by becoming aware of the choices that lead you away from your desired destination.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“The (Complete) Formula for Getting Lucky: Preparation (personal growth) + Attitude (belief/mindset) + Opportunity (a good thing coming your way) + Action (doing something about it) = Luck”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

“Seek out positive people who have achieved the success you want to create in your own life. Remember the adage: “Never ask advice of someone with whom you wouldn’t want to trade places.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

“Unsuccessful people carry their goals around in their head like marbles rattling around in a can, and we say a goal that is not in writing is merely a fantasy.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

“Your biggest challenge isn’t that you’ve intentionally been making bad choices. Heck, that would be easy to fix. Your biggest challenge is that you’ve been sleepwalking through your choices.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

“A daily routine built on good habits and disciplines separates the most successful among us from everyone else. A routine is exceptionally powerful.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

“We can all make powerful choices. We can all take back control by not blaming chance, fate, or anyone else for our outcomes. It’s within our ability to cause everything to change. Rather than letting past hurtful experiences sap our energy and sabotage our success, we can use them to fuel positive, constructive change.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

“There’s nothing wrong with ordinary. I just prefer to shoot for extraordinary.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

“The dream in your heart may be bigger than the environment in which you find yourself. Sometimes you have to get out of that environment to see that dream fulfilled. It’s like planting an oak sapling in a pot. Once it becomes rootbound, its growth is limited. It needs a great space to become a mighty oak. So do you.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

“The real cost of a four-dollar-a-day coffee habit over 20 years is $51,833.79. That’s the power of the Compound Effect.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

“Consistency is the key to achieving and maintaining momentum.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

“If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

“Earning success is hard. The process is laborious, tedious, sometimes even boring. Becoming wealthy, influential, and world-class in your field is slow and arduous.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

“All winners are trackers.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

“When you define your goals, you give your brain something new to look for and focus on. It’s as if you’re giving your mind a new set of eyes from which to see all the people, circumstances, conversations, resources, ideas, and creativity surrounding you.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

“No matter what has happened to you, take complete responsibility for it—good or bad, victory or defeat. Own it. My mentor Jim Rohn said, “The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

“Losing is a habit. So is winning. Now let’s work on permanently instilling winning habits into your life.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

“If we want to succeed, we need to recover our grandparents’ work ethic.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect