It’s not until situations are difficult, when problems come up and temptation is great, that you get to prove your worthiness for progress. As Jim Ro… - Darren Hardy

Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.

"Your brain is not designed to make you happy. Your brain has only one agenda in mind: survival. It is always watching for signs of "lack and attack." Your brain is programmed to seek out the negative — dwindling resources, destructive weather, whatever's out to hurt you. So when you switch on that radio on the way to work and get bombarded with all those reports...your brain lights up — it will now spend all day chewing over that feast of fear, worry, negativity."

On habits:

The older they are, the bigger they get, the deeper the roots grow, and the harder they are to uproot. Some get so big, with roots so deep, you might hesitate to even try.

Your only path to success is through a continuum of mundane, unsexy, unexciting, and sometimes difficult daily disciplines compounded over time.