Darren hardy quotes

You can only be great at the big things by being great at the little things. Do something little with greatness today.

Productivity isn't magic. It's discipline.

The biggest difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people are willing to do what unsuccessful people are not.

It’s not getting to the wall that counts; it’s what you do after you hit it.

When it comes to breaking old habits and starting new ones, remember to be patient with yourself. If you've spent twenty, thirty, or forty years or more repeating the behaviors you're now trying to change, you've got to expect it's going to take time and effort before you see lasting results.

Fear doesn't prevent death, but it certainly prevents life.

A daily routine built on good habits and disciplines separates the most successful among us from everyone else. The routine is exceptionally powerful.

Success is when what you THINK, SAY, and DO are the same.

If all the people around you are happy with you, you are not doing great work. When you stop being like other people, they stop liking you. That's just how it goes. There's no escaping it. And it's okay. What you need to understand about that disapproval is that it's a sign you're doing something right.

We are all self-made men and women, but only the successful take credit for it.

DNA has nothing to do with success. Turn your genes into overalls and get to work.

We all come into this world the same: naked, scared, and ignorant. After that grand entrance, the life we end up with is simply an accumulation of the choices we make.

It’s time to WAKE UP and make empowering choices.

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.

The words we use don't matter as much as the emotion behind the words. When we understand this, we have the ability to influence, inspire, persuade and affect others.

Today, financial capital is no longer the key asset. It is human capital. Success is no longer about economic competence as the main leverage. It is about emotional intelligence. It is no longer about controls. It is about collaboration. It is no longer about hierarchies. It is about leading through networks. It is no longer about aligning people through structures and spreadsheets. It is about aligning them through meaning and purpose. It is no longer about developing followers. It is about developing leaders.

The great danger of the media is that it gives us a very perverted view of the world. Because the focus and the repetition of messaging is on the negative, that’s what our minds start believing. This warped and narrow view of what’s not working has a severe influence on your creative potential. It can be crippling.

Everything you need to be great is already inside you. Stop waiting for someone or something to light your fire. You have the match.

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.

The thought, 'I can't' is a lie. We use it to excuse ourselves from trying.

The organization will always mirror the behavior, habits, attitude, mindset and pace of the leader.

Decide now that you are worthy of great wealth and it will be your first step toward great prosperity

To achieve what you have not, you must become what you are not. You have to GROW into your goals.

Luck is an equal opportunity distributor.

Choose to make up for what you lack in innate ability with discipline, hard work, and good habits. Become a creature of champion habits.

Old habits eat good intentions for lunch. Change your habits so you can change your outcomes.

Broke people talk about people and problems. Rich people talk about ideas and goals. Your conversation chooses your destiny.

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.

What’s easy to do, is also easy not to do.

One of the best days of your life can be when you finally say, 'I've had it!' then stand up and fight.

Allow yourself to go and do it wrong. Don't expect to always get it right. It will prevent you from doing anything.

Losing is a habit. So is winning. Now lets work on permanently instilling winning habits into your life. Eliminate sabotaging habits and instill the needed positive habits, and you can take your life in any direction you desire, to the heights of your greatest imagination.

The key to becoming world-class in your endeavors is to build your performance around world-class routines. It can be difficult, even futile, to predict or control what will show up in the middle of your workday. But you can almost always control how your day starts and ends. I have routines for both.

If we want to succeed, we need to recover our grandparents’ work ethic.

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.

The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life.

Commitment is doing the thing you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you.

Achievers don't submit to instant gratification; they INVEST in the LONG-TERM payoff

The rhythm of daily action aligned with your goals creates the momentum that separates dreamers from super-achievers .

Since your outcomes are all a result of your moment-to-moment choices, you have incredible power to change your life by changing those choices. Step by step, day by day, your choices will shape your actions until they become habits, where practice makes them permanent.

If all the people around you are happy with you, you are not doing great work. Progress is disruption and change.

Don't fake it till you make it. Just get busy making it!

People don't resent you for being brave. They resent themselves for being afraid.

Become very conscious of every choice you make today so you can begin to make smarter choices moving forward.

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.

It’s amazing how life will organize around the standards you set for yourself.

Your waking adult life is going to be spent in what you do professionally, so you'd better like the journey and not just aim for the destination.

Have you ever been bitten by an elephant? How about a mosquito? It's the little things in life that will bite you. For most of us, it's the frequent, small and seemingly inconsequential choices that are of grave concern.

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.

Tracking is a simple exercise. It works because it brings moment-to-moment awareness to the actions you take in the area of your life you want to improve

Hang out with those who have a common FUTURE with you; not a common past.

When it comes to success. Rent is due everyday

Success is not only the financial wealth you accumulate, it is also about being a leader, improving your relationships, living healthfully, and making a real difference in the world.

Unsuccessful people think about what they don’t want most of the time. They talk about problems, listen to news & gossip, & spend their time blaming circumstances, situations & others. Successful people think about what they want & how they will get it. They are intensely focused on their goals & the information needed to help obtain them. Which person are YOU?

Don't fake it till you make it. Be real, be transparent, be authentic and be yourself.

Lady Luck shines on all, but rather than having your umbrella overhead, you've got to have your face to the sky. When it comes down to it, it's all you, baby. There's no other way around it.

If you haven’t already clearly defined your values, you may find yourself making choices that conflict with what you want. If, for example, honesty is a big thing for you, but you hang out with liars, there’s a conflict. When your actions conflict with your values, you’ll end up unhappy, frustrated, and despondent. In fact, psychologists tell us that nothing creates more stress than when our actions and behaviors aren’t congruent with our values.

Only when you’re willing to take 100 percent responsibility for making the relationship work will it work. Otherwise, a relationship left to chance will always be vulnerable to disaster.

And as long as you’re making choices unconsciously, you can’t consciously choose to change that ineffective behavior and turn it into productive habits.

Success is not for those who want it, nor those who need it, but for those who are utterly determined to seize it--whatever it takes.

The highest achievers in the world have all succeeded because they mapped out their visions

The activities you are most afraid of are the activities that can cause a breakthrough in your success. Step into them.

If you truly want to be successful, spend less time following the lives of other people and more time leading your own.

Lack of consistency is the subtle but great stealer of dreams & desires. The stop & start process is what kills progress & is probably one of the greatest reasons why many don’t achieve their goals & end up living in continuous discontent, frustration & disappointment. Many buy a new book, sign up for a new program, go like crazy for a few weeks, stop & end up right back where they started. Don't let this be you!

Daily Mojo: Your main competitors are not others in your industry. Your main competitors are distractions. Don't let them beat you - stay focused

Doubt is part of the human drama. But don't let it consume you-let it motivate you.

It's no great achievement to go along with the crowd. Be the unusual guy, the extraordinary guy.

Giving to others is the greatest gift you can give yourself.

Small, seemingly insignificant steps completed consistently over time will create a radical difference

Almost every great achievement began with someone finally getting ticked off, saying, 'Enough!' and standing up to fight.

Choices are at the root of every one of your results.

The key that unlocks your greatness is deliberate, disciplined and consistent effort.

There’s nothing wrong with ordinary. I just prefer to shoot for extraordinary.

Psychological studies reveal that 95 percent of everything we feel, think, and achieve is a result of a learned habit!

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.

You alone are responsible for what you do, don’t do, or how you respond to what’s done to you.

Lack of true progress may not be a result of not doing what one is supposed to, but lack of focused effort trying not to do too much.

There is not the management of time, there is only the management of you.

Consistency is the key to achieving and maintaining momentum.

What controls your attention, controls your life

In essence, you make your choices, and then your choices make you.

There is one thing that 99 percent of 'failures' and 'successful' folks have in common - they all hate doing the same things. The difference is successful people do them anyway.

The early bird gets the worm, the rest starve.

You are judged by what you produce, not what you said, intended or wanted to produce. It's Friday, add up the numbers. How'd you do?

The path to success is through a continuum of mundane, unsexy, unexciting, and sometimes difficult daily disciplines compounded over time

The Compound Effect is the principle of reaping huge rewards from a series of small, smart choices