Darren Hardy Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Consistency is the key to achieving and maintaining momentum.

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

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

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.

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

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

Productivity isn't magic. It's discipline.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Luck is an equal opportunity distributor.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

What controls your attention, controls your life

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

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

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.

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.

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

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