Prime Yourself to Win Quotes
Win the first hour and the day tends to follow. The man who primes his body and mind before the world starts making demands runs the day instead of chasing it. This Productivity path holds the greatest quotes ever gathered on starting strong. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.”
“Your morning sets the tone for the rest of your day.”
“The early morning has gold in its mouth.”
“He that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.”
“The secret to high performance isn't our biological drive to reduce tension but our third drive, to learn, to create, and to do better.”
“Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it.”
“Inspiration is for amateurs—the rest of us just show up and get to work.”
“In this world you're either growing or you're dying, so get in motion and grow.”
“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
“Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions.”
“Think in the morning. Act at noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep at night.”
“The ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy. As a consequence, the few who cultivate this skill, and then make it the core of their working life, will thrive.”
“How you start your day is how you live your day.”
“You can't be great if you don't feel great. Make exceptional health your #1 priority.”
“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they cannot tell good from evil.”
“Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.”
“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.”
“Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.”
“Win the morning, win the day.”
“The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.”
“Energy, not time, is the fundamental currency of high performance.”
“Import energy. Export entropy.”
“If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.”
“The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.”
“Getting sunlight in your eyes first thing in the morning is absolutely vital to mental and physical health.”
“A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”
“Flow is an optimal state of consciousness where we feel our best and perform our best.”
“Growth is the only evidence of life.”
“You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
