42 Quotes from "Atomic Habits"

 

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

 Note: Please feel free to use the quote graphics below by right-clicking the graphic and saving or copying the image. These quotes have been taken from James Clear's book, "Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones," a book I strongly commend to you. These quotes spoke to me when I discovered them. I share them with you to pass along the moments of reflection and resonation I felt and found.

“Changes that seem small and unimportant at first will compound into remarkable results if you’re willing to stick with them for years.” – James Clear

 

“It is so easy to overestimate the importance of one defining moment and underestimate the value of making small improvements on a daily basis.” – James Clear

 

“Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. They seem to make little difference on any given day and yet the impact they deliver over the months and years can be enormous.” – James Clear

 “Making a choice that is 1 percent better or 1 percent worse seems insignificant in the moment, but over the span of moments that make up a lifetime these choices determine the difference between who you are and who you could be.” – James Clear

 

“Your outcomes are a lagging measure of your habits.” – James Clear

 

“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it – but all that had gone before.” – Jacob Riis

 

“My results had very little to do with the goals I set and nearly everything to do with the systems I followed.” – James Clear

 

“Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about the processes that lead to those results.” – James Clear

 

“The only way to actually win is to get better each day.” – James Clear

“When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy.” – James Clear

 

“Ultimately, it is your commitment to the process that will determine your progress.” – James Clear

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

“Atomic Habits – A regular practice or routine that is not only small and easy to do, but also the source of incredible power; a component of the system of compound growth.” – James Clear

 

“With outcome-based habits, the focus is on what you wish to achieve. With identity-based habits, the focus is on who you wish to become.” – James Clear

 

“Behind every system of actions, there is a system of beliefs.” – James Clear

“When your behavior and your identity are fully aligned, you are no longer pursuing behavior change. You are simply acting like the type of person you already believe yourself to be.” – James Clear

“Your identity emerges out of your habits.” – James Clear

 

“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.” – James Clear

 

“The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.” – James Clear

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” – Carl Jung

 

“A small change in what you see can lead to a big shift in what you do. You can imagine how important it is to live and work in environments that are filled with productive cues and devoid of unproductive ones.” – James Clear

 

“You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.” – James Clear

“Desire is the engine that drives behavior.” – James Clear

 

“In the long history of humankind, those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” – Charles Darwin

 

“One of the most effective things you can do to build better habits is to join a culture where your desired behavior is the normal behavior.” – James Clear

“Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself. You’ll rise together.” – James Clear

 

“Desire is the difference between where you are now and where you want to be in the future.” – James Clear

 

“Imagine changing one word: You don’t “have” to. You “get” to.” – James Clear

 

“Both common sense and scientific evidence agree: repetition is a form of change. To build a habit, you need to practice it.” – James Clear

 

“It is better to do less than you hoped than to do nothing at all.” – James Clear

 

“As the saying goes, the last mile is the least crowded.” – James Clear

 

“We think we act better than we do. When the evidence is right in front of you, you’re less likely to lie to yourself.” – James Clear

 

“The most effective form of motivation is progress.” – James Clear

 

“I try to remind myself of a simple rule: never miss twice.” – James Clear

 

“The problem is not slipping up; the problem is thinking that if you can’t do something perfectly, then you shouldn’t do it at all.” – James Clear

 

“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. – Goodhart’s Law”

 “Knowing that someone else is watching you can be a powerful motivator.” – James Clear

 

“When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.” – James Clear

 

“People get so caught up in the fact that they have limits that they rarely exert the effort required to get close to them.” – James Clear

“Until you work as hard as those you admire, don’t explain away their success as luck.” – James Clear

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