"For most of my early life, I didn’t consider myself a writer. If you were to ask any of my high school teachers or college professors, they would tell you I was an average writer at best: certainly not a standout. When I began my writing career, I published a new article every Monday and Thursday for the first few years. As the evidence grew, so did my identity as a writer. I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits."
-- James Clear
"The elevator to success is out of order today. You’re going to have to take the stairway, one step at a time."
-- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"Keep your mind busy and goal oriented. Let there be no room for the negativity that will impede your climb to the top. Your mind is under your control. It is up to you to harness your power over it. All it takes is putting some conscious effort into thinking about your own thinking. When you find yourself feeling or thinking negatively, reach for the support that can redirect you in a more positive direction."
-- Sherrie Campbell
"Never make having things or achieving status as your goal. Instead seek to be the kind of person who will naturally do the right thing that will result in all of the things that our culture calls success."
-- Jim Stovall
"Faking it till we make it is part of the normal process of becoming competent. No one is skilled from the first moment they try something new. Likewise few of us are free of trepidations when we enter virgin territory"
-- Melvyn L. Fein
"Don’t expect everything to happen without you doing your bit. Instant results are often deceptive, and you need to accept that it’s difficult to build stable and durable relationships—in any area of life—in a matter of minutes. It requires patience, perseverance, and knowing how to give of yourself."
-- Marian Rojas Estape
"Let’s face it: the amount of time you have on earth is limited. It doesn’t matter what the mental or the real obstacles are. It’s time here and now to set your goals, plan your big thinking, and live bigger than you ever thought you could."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"The path to success is filled with failure. People who live their best and truest lives understand that. They are not afraid to fail, and not afraid of how they look to others."
-- Peter S. Temes
"The capacity of people to dig out from the rubble of their shattered lives and dreams and—within a few days—be building back, bigger and better, makes us all proud. But let us never forget that, when you’ve lost everything that you own, but you still have your friends and family around you and the desire to go on, you still have everything."
-- Jim Stovall
"Prevailing wisdom claims that the best way to achieve what we want in life—getting into better shape, building a successful business, relaxing more and worrying less, spending more time with friends and family—is to set specific, actionable goals."
-- James Clear
