Quotes from The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“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, quote from The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.”
― Darren Hardy, quote from The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“You alone are responsible for what you do, don’t do, or how you respond to what’s done to you.”
― Darren Hardy, quote from The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“Small, Smart Choices + Consistency + Time = RADICAL DIFFERENCE”
― Darren Hardy, quote from The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“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, quote from The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“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, quote from The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“In essence, you make your choices, and then your choices make you.”
― Darren Hardy, quote from The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“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, quote from 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, quote from The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“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, quote from The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“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, quote from The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“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, quote from The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge.”
― Darren Hardy, quote from The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“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, quote from The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“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, quote from The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“There’s nothing wrong with ordinary. I just prefer to shoot for extraordinary.”
― Darren Hardy, quote from The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“The person who has a clear, compelling, and white-hot burning why will always defeat even the best of the best at doing the how.”
― Darren Hardy, quote from The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“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.”
― Darren Hardy, quote from The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“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, quote from The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“Consistency is the key to achieving and maintaining momentum.”
― Darren Hardy, quote from The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“You get in life what you create. Expectation drives the creative process. What do you expect? You expect whatever it is you're thinking about. Your thought process, the conversation in your head, is at the base of the results you create in life.”
― Darren Hardy, quote from The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“When you've prepared, practiced, studied, and consistently put in the required effort, sooner or later you'll be presented with your own moment of truth. In that moment, you will define who you are and who you are becoming. It is in those moments where growth and improvement live--when we either step forward or shrink back, when we climb to the top of the podium and seize the medal or we continue to applaud sullenly from the crowd for others' victories.”
― Darren Hardy, quote from The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“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, quote from The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“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, quote from The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“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, quote from The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“You reap what you sow; you can’t get out of life what you’re not willing to put into it. If you want more love, give more love. If you want greater success, help others achieve more. And when you study and master the science of achievement, you will find the success you desire.”
― Darren Hardy, quote from The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“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, quote from The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“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, quote from The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“Losing is a habit. So is winning. Now let’s work on permanently instilling winning habits into your life.”
― Darren Hardy, quote from The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

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“I had privately changed 'This, too, shall pass' into 'You, too, shall die'.”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hounded

“She was amazed Silveny had even let them get close enough to attach the reins. Clearly she needed to teach the glittering horse how to recognize pure evil.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Exile

“And interfering with the Council's decisions is a treasonous offense."
Grady snorted. "Not if the Council's gone crazy.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Everblaze

“Some catastrophic moments invite clarity, explode in split moments: You smash your hand through a windowpane and then there is blood and shattered glass stained with red all over the place; you fall out a window and break some bones and scrape some skin. Stitches and casts and bandages and antiseptic solve and salve the wounds. But depression is not a sudden disaster. It is more like a cancer: At first its tumorous mass is not even noticeable to the careful eye, and then one day -- wham! -- there is a huge, deadly seven-pound lump lodged in your brain or your stomach or your shoulder blade, and this thing that your own body has produced is actually trying to kill you. Depression is a lot like that: Slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity will build into your system, making life feel more and more unbearable. But you won't even notice it coming on, thinking that it is somehow normal, something about getting older, about turning eight or turning twelve or turning fifteen, and then one day you realize that your entire life is just awful, not worth living, a horror and a black blot on the white terrain of human existence. One morning you wake up afraid you are going to live.

In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead. The actual dying part, the withering away of my physical body, was a mere formality. My spirit, my emotional being, whatever you want to call all that inner turmoil that has nothing to do with physical existence, were long gone, dead and gone, and only a mass of the most fucking god-awful excruciating pain like a pair of boiling hot tongs clamped tight around my spine and pressing on all my nerves was left in its wake.

That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there is sadness and pain and sorrow, all of which, in their right time and season, are normal -- unpleasant, but normal. Depression is an altogether different zone because it involves a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel in the course of a major clinical depression is an attempt on nature's part (nature, after all, abhors a vacuum) to fill up the empty space. But for all intents and purposes, the deeply depressed are just the walking, waking dead.

And the scariest part is that if you ask anyone in the throes of depression how he got there, to pin down the turning point, he'll never know. There is a classic moment in The Sun Also Rises when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in response is, 'Gradually and then suddenly.' When someone asks how I love my mind, that is all I can say too”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, quote from Prozac Nation

“[T]he unnamed soldier is a gift. The named soldier--dead, melted wax--demands a response among the living...a response no-one can make. Names are no comfort, they're a call to answer the unanswerable. Why did she die, not him? Why do the survivors remain anonymous--as if cursed--while the dead are revered? Why do we cling to what we lose while we ignore what we still hold?

Name none of the fallen, for they stood in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold no glory, and let me die forgotten and unknown. Let it not be said that I was one among the dead to accuse the living.”
― Steven Erikson, quote from Deadhouse Gates

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