Power Habits Quotes

“We build too many walls and not enough bridges.” Why”
― Chris Luke, Power Habits: 101 Life Lessons & Success Habits of Great Leaders, Business Icons and Inspirational Achievers

“No matter what you do, the ability to focus on the tasks at hand as well as your long term goals is very important.”
― Chris Luke, Power Habits: 101 Life Lessons & Success Habits of Great Leaders, Business Icons and Inspirational Achievers

“You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. You don’t have to turn this into something. It doesn’t have to upset you. Things can’t shape our decisions by themselves. I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.” Why”
― Chris Luke, Power Habits: 101 Life Lessons & Success Habits of Great Leaders, Business Icons and Inspirational Achievers

“Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.” Why”
― Chris Luke, Power Habits: 101 Life Lessons & Success Habits of Great Leaders, Business Icons and Inspirational Achievers

“We should do it because we should try to get out of our own jail cell of bitterness and hatred and leave the pain behind. Forgiveness is an attribute of a strong character.”
― Chris Luke, Power Habits: 101 Life Lessons & Success Habits of Great Leaders, Business Icons and Inspirational Achievers

“Effective listening is a skill that is the cornerstone of all positive human relationships, and it should be mastered by anyone with an active social life. Period.”
― Chris Luke, Power Habits: 101 Life Lessons & Success Habits of Great Leaders, Business Icons and Inspirational Achievers

“Next time when you are in an argument, let the arising anger cease. Listen to the other side, try to sincerely understand their perspective, and you will have more peace, feeling like a Zen master. Try to focus on being happy and at peace, instead of focusing on being right.”
― Chris Luke, Power Habits: 101 Life Lessons & Success Habits of Great Leaders, Business Icons and Inspirational Achievers

“In the restaurant, my wife always says, ‘You didn’t look at the bill.’ I say, ‘I don’t want to worry myself by looking at the bill and asking, ‘who had the onion rings?’ or ‘they overcharged me for chips.’ Because those moments all add up to years. And how much money would you pay for another year?” Why”
― Chris Luke, Power Habits: 101 Life Lessons & Success Habits of Great Leaders, Business Icons and Inspirational Achievers

“One of those mind habits is the method of self-talk. “If you talked to you friends like you talk to yourself, you wouldn’t have any friends.” Why”
― Chris Luke, Power Habits: 101 Life Lessons & Success Habits of Great Leaders, Business Icons and Inspirational Achievers

“The emotion of sex is an ‘irresistible force,’ against which there can be no such opposition as an ‘immovable body.’ When driven by this emotion, men become gifted with a super power for action. Understand this truth, and you will catch the significance of the statement that sex transmutation will lift one to the status of a genius. Destroy the sex glands, whether in man or beast, and you have removed the major source of action. For proof of this, observe what happens to any animal after it has been castrated. A bull becomes as docile as a cow after it has been altered sexually. Sex alteration takes out of the male, whether man or beast, all the FIGHT that was in him.”
― Chris Luke, Power Habits: 101 Life Lessons & Success Habits of Great Leaders, Business Icons and Inspirational Achievers

“Your own personal mission statement will have a directional and a motivational function.”
― Chris Luke, Power Habits: 101 Life Lessons & Success Habits of Great Leaders, Business Icons and Inspirational Achievers

“Laura Vanderkam has written an entire book on the weekend habits of successful people. In What The Most”
― Chris Luke, Power Habits: 101 Life Lessons & Success Habits of Great Leaders, Business Icons and Inspirational Achievers

“and won’t take his laptop into bed. In the morning he follows up on something he is calling the “3C morning routine” which consists of coffee, cardio, and cold showers. “The”
― Chris Luke, Power Habits: 101 Life Lessons & Success Habits of Great Leaders, Business Icons and Inspirational Achievers

“In the morning he follows up on something he is calling”
― Chris Luke, Power Habits: 101 Life Lessons & Success Habits of Great Leaders, Business Icons and Inspirational Achievers

“Outliers,”
― Chris Luke, Power Habits: 101 Life Lessons & Success Habits of Great Leaders, Business Icons and Inspirational Achievers

“AM Chicago.”
― Chris Luke, Power Habits: 101 Life Lessons & Success Habits of Great Leaders, Business Icons and Inspirational Achievers

“Like A Virgin: Secrets They Won’t Teach You at Business School”
― Chris Luke, Power Habits: 101 Life Lessons & Success Habits of Great Leaders, Business Icons and Inspirational Achievers

“Think and Grow Rich.”
― Chris Luke, Power Habits: 101 Life Lessons & Success Habits of Great Leaders, Business Icons and Inspirational Achievers

“King’s visionary speech is widely regarded as one of the finest speeches”
― Chris Luke, Power Habits: 101 Life Lessons & Success Habits of Great Leaders, Business Icons and Inspirational Achievers

“list of his 13 virtues, taken from his autobiography, An American Life: Temperance. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. Silence. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. Order. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. Resolution. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. Frugality. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing. Industry. Lose no time; be always employ’d in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. Sincerity. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly. Justice. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty. Moderation. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve. Cleanliness. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation. Tranquility. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable. Chastity.”
― Chris Luke, Power Habits: 101 Life Lessons & Success Habits of Great Leaders, Business Icons and Inspirational Achievers

“You have to become aware of who you are—your strengths, weaknesses, likes, beliefs and how you feel and why you feel a certain way. Knowing yourself goes far beyond just thinking about your life. The practice of reflection also includes talking to others, e.g. through finding a mentor who offers guidance, someone to share your views and experiences with, someone to ask questions to.”
― Chris Luke, Power Habits: 101 Life Lessons & Success Habits of Great Leaders, Business Icons and Inspirational Achievers

“Our never-ending quest towards self-improvement is a long journey of small steps. Small habits we repeat day after day, week after week, year after year. Small habits that have turned us into who we are today that will also determine who we will become in the future.”
― Chris Luke, Power Habits: 101 Life Lessons & Success Habits of Great Leaders, Business Icons and Inspirational Achievers

“You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your fucking khakis. You’re the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.” Why”
― Chris Luke, Power Habits: 101 Life Lessons & Success Habits of Great Leaders, Business Icons and Inspirational Achievers

“You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
― Chris Luke, Power Habits: 101 Life Lessons & Success Habits of Great Leaders, Business Icons and Inspirational Achievers

“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.” Why”
― Chris Luke, Power Habits: 101 Life Lessons & Success Habits of Great Leaders, Business Icons and Inspirational Achievers

“Creativity flourishes in solitude. Sitting in peace and quiet, you can reach deep within yourself. With quiet, you will be able to hear your thoughts. Solitude will help you to focus.”
― Chris Luke, Power Habits: 101 Life Lessons & Success Habits of Great Leaders, Business Icons and Inspirational Achievers

“Creativity is just connecting things.”
― Chris Luke, Power Habits: 101 Life Lessons & Success Habits of Great Leaders, Business Icons and Inspirational Achievers

“I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man!” Why”
― Chris Luke, Power Habits: 101 Life Lessons & Success Habits of Great Leaders, Business Icons and Inspirational Achievers