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“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“The Way of the Worrier 1. Don’t Be a Jerk 2. (And/But . . .) When Necessary, Hide the Zen 3. Meditate 4. The Price of Security Is Insecurity—Until It’s Not Useful 5. Equanimity Is Not the Enemy of Creativity 6. Don’t Force It 7. Humility Prevents Humiliation 8. Go Easy with the Internal”
― Dan Harris, 10% Happier

“brain is a pleasure-seeking machine.”
― Dan Harris, 10% Happier

“We complained with angst and anger that it should be easier, forgetting that much of the negative energy that pervades our lives comes from despising the inevitable hardships of change.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power

“humanity’s story has only two perennially recurring themes: struggle and progress.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power

“let us be clear that the small, complaining, undisciplined part of ourselves—the distracted character wanting nothing but convenience and ease—is unfit to be the ruler of our new destiny.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power

“Humankind’s main motivation is to seek and experience Personal Freedom.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power

“Choosing our own aims and seeking to bring them to fruition creates a sense of vitality and motivation in life.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power

“I won’t let others stoke fear in my heart. I choose to remain true to who I am and where my dreams direct me no matter the hardship I might incur. I remember it always: Fear wins or Freedom wins, and I choose Freedom.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power

“Desire without belief in self is ultimately deflating.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power

“The sustaining choices of motivation are thus attention and effort.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power

“What will our mission be from this moment forward? What will be our plan of action? What steps must be taken?”
― Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power

“So now, in these magical moments of our lives bursting with fire and choice, let us sit and write. Let us take back our day tomorrow by scribing our dreams tonight. Let us ask: What am I really after in life? What do I truly want to create and contribute? What kind of person do I want to show the world each day? What types of persons shall I love and enjoy life with? What great cause will keep me going when I feel weak or distracted? What shall be my ultimate legacy? What steps must I take to begin and sustain these efforts? What will I orient my days to accomplishing this week? This month? This year?”
― Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power

“a certain degree of insanity and recklessness is necessary to advance or innovate anything,”
― Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power

“YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR REALITY. DECIDE WHAT YOU WANT OF THE WORLD AND GO MAKE IT HAPPEN. NO CLARITY, NO CHANGE; NO GOALS, NO GROWTH.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power

“Great men and women don’t give a damn if anyone approves. They rarely seek permission from the world, because they know that the masses bound by mediocrity will never approve of anything that breaks convention or smacks of boldness and magic.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power

“Let us remember this sad but sure truth: the only permission ever granted by society is permission to follow its norms and traditions.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power

“Let us join their ranks and remember these truths: We do not need more time; we need a stronger reason to act so that we use time more effectively.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power

“The man who believes the home he is building may house the devil someday will soon put away his tools.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power

“the vast majority hate the struggle required to advance. They complain with great angst that the road to independence and abundance is too hard, too inconvenient, too slow. If there is no straight and speedy line to success, the journey never begins. People don’t go back to school because it will take too long. They don’t exercise because the results come too slowly. They don’t fight for their dreams because it would require long nights stacked on top of already busy days.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power

“No longer shall we wait for permission, proper timing, or ease in rapidly progressing our lives”
― Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power

“Ours has become a world where a tragic number of people are more fascinated by materialism and the lives of distant narcissists than by their own life experience.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power

“As we become more mature and enlightened adults, we come to realize that if an opportunity is presented to us and it does not gain a near 100-percent enthusiasm and commitment from us, then the reply must be a 100-percent no.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power

“Often, breaking integrity means repeatedly doing things we do not love with people we do not care for. Isn’t life meant to be a passionate love affair with our work, our faith, and those we are blessed to know, care for, and serve?”
― Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power

“Giving respect means to do no harm; to allow others their rights in expressing themselves; and to honor the fact that their own thoughts, feelings, and actions are real and justifiable in their own minds, even if we see them as unimportant or wrong. Respect does not necessarily mean approval; one can respect another’s right to speak but not necessarily approve of what is spoken. Respect means that we see others as doing their best with what they have, who they are, and what hand they’ve been dealt, even if we find their efforts wanting in any way. It means seeing the divinity in others, and never inviting disrespect into our lives by projecting disrespect onto others.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power

“The fifth practice is to tell the truth.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power

“Integrity is learning to feel hurt but not integrate its darkness into our soul or cast it onto another.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power

“My friend, my friend, you are where you are supposed to be already, do you not see? Stop looking for something else and look and feel all around. Everything is here now. Miss it, and you will have missed life.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power

“To be more present, let us check into our breath several times in the hour and especially in moments that we want to feel and remember.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power