James Clear Quotes & Sayings

“The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It is the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows. Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit.”

“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity. This is one reason why meaningful change does not require radical change. Small habits can make a meaningful difference by providing evidence of a new identity. And if a change is meaningful, it is actually big. That's the paradox of making small improvements.”

“Success is the product of daily habits — not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.”

“Excuses make today easier but tomorrow harder. Discipline makes today harder but tomorrow easier.”

“The work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you were made to do.”

“The only way to become excellent is to be endlessly fascinated by doing the same thing over and over. You have to fall in love with boredom.”

“Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.”

“Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.”

“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”

“Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.”

“Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.”