101 Must-Read Darren Hardy Quotes That’ll Change Your Life

101 Must-Read Darren Hardy Quotes That’ll Change Your Life

Mike Cahill
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9 min readJan 10, 2020

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Darren Hardy, a publisher of the Success Magazine, is a renowned business author and speaker whose books, interviews, and seminars have played an instrumental role in helping scale my previous company to over $10 million in sales.

Without further delay, here are my picks for the top 101 must-read Darren Hardy quotes that’ll change your life. Enjoy.

Quote #1: “Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them down with aggressive pursuit.”

Quote #2: “Want to sell more? Stop selling. Help instead.”

Quote #3: “The key to success is massive failure. Your goal is to out-fail your competition.”

Quote #4: “What makes work fun is doing meaningful work.”

Quote #5: “Almost every great achievement began with someone finally getting ticked off, saying, ‘Enough!’ and standing up to fight.”

Quote #6: “The thought, ‘I can’t’ is a lie. We use it to excuse ourselves from trying. Productivity isn’t magic. It’s discipline.”

Quote #7: “What’s the master skill of productivity? Learning to say NO.”

Quote #8: “I’ll win because of the positive habits I’ve developed, and because of the consistency I use in applying those habits.”

Quote #9: “You only need to take a series of tiny steps, consistently, over time, to radically improve your life.”

Quote #10: “Everything in your life exists because you first made a choice about something. Choices are at the root of every one of your results. You make your choices, and then your choices make you.”

Quote #11: “The biggest difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people are willing to do what unsuccessful people are not.”

Quote #12: “Step by step, day by day, your choices will shape your actions until they become habits where practice makes them permanent.”

Quote #13: “When the reason is big enough, you will be willing to perform almost any how”.

Quote #14: “A daily routine built on good habits and disciplines separates the most successful among us from everyone else.”

Quote #15: “There is one thing that 99 percent of “failures” and ‘successful‘ folks have in common — they all hate doing the same things. The difference is successful people do them anyway.”

Quote #16: “Anyone can start something. Few can finish.”

Quote #17: “Everyone is affected by three kinds of influences: Input (what you feed your mind), associations (the people with whom you spend time), and environment (your surroundings).”

Quote #18: “The first step toward change is awareness. If you want to get from where you are to where you want to be, you have to start by becoming aware of the choices that lead you away from your desired destination.”

Quote #19: “Garden your head — pull out the weeds of excuses and plant the seeds of greatness.”

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Quote #20: “Start your day with why, then get on with your what.”

Quote #21: “It’s not what you learn or what you know; it’s what you do with what you know and learn.”

Quote #22: “Risk means acting without certainty.”

Quote #23: “Ask yourself each day: If I only did 3 things today, what are the actions that will produce the greatest results in moving me closer to my big goals?”

Quote #24: “You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.”

Quote #25: “It’s not the big things that add up in the end;
It’s the hundreds, thousands, or millions of little things that separate the ordinary from the extraordinary.”

Quote #26: “Never ask advice of someone with whom you wouldn’t want to trade places.”

Quote #27: “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge.”

Quote #28: “Earning success is hard.
The process is laborious, tedious, sometimes even boring. Becoming wealthy, influential, and world-class in your field is slow and arduous.”

Quote #29: “Losing is a habit. So is winning. Now let’s work on permanently instilling winning habits into your life.”

Quote #30: “Commitment is doing the thing you said you were going to do, long after the mood you said it in has left you.”

Quote #31: “Knowledge will enrich you, but only action will turn it into riches.”

Quote #32: “The real cost of a four-dollar-a-day coffee habit over 20 years is $51,833.79. That’s the power of the Compound Effect.”

Quote #33: “The person who has a clear, compelling, and white-hot burning why will always defeat even the best of the best at doing the how.”

Quote #34: “Consistency is the key to achieving and maintaining momentum.”

Quote #35: “In essence, you make your choices … and then your choices make you.”

Quote #36: “Small, Smart Choices + Consistency + Time
= RADICAL DIFFERENCE”

Quote #37: “Doubt & fear steal more dreams than failure.”

Quote #38: “You can only control two things in your life:
Your attitude and your actions.”

Quote #39: “Life begins outside the edge of your comfort zone.”

Quote #40: “No Excuses.
If you haven’t achieved your dreams, it’s your fault.”

Quote #41: “To achieve what you have not, you must become what you are not. You have to grow into your goals.”

Quote #42: “Think bigger. Live larger. Serve greater.”

Quote #43: “Your main competitors are not others in your industry. Your main competitors are distractions. Don’t let them beat you — stay focused.”

Quote #44: “Don’t expect to always get it right.
It will prevent you from doing anything.”

Quote #45: “The secret of success is found in the daily routine.”

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Quote #46: “What’s in your head determines what’s in your wallet.”

Quote #47: “Broke people talk about people and problems.
Rich people talk about ideas and goals. Your conversation chooses your destiny.”

Quote #48: “Replace your wishbone with backbone.”

Quote #49: “It’s better to be world-class at a few things than mediocre at many things.”

Quote #50: “Giving to others is the greatest gift you can give yourself.”

Quote #51: “Your past doesn’t define you, it prepares you.”

Quote #52: “Once-dominant empires have failed for this very reason. People get to a certain level of success and get too comfortable.”

Quote #53: “If your plan isn’t working, change the plan, not the goal.”

Quote #54: “It’s not enough to choose to be successful.
You have to dig deeper than that to find your core motivation, to activate your superpower. Your why-power.”

Quote #55: “You alone are responsible for what you do, don’t do, or how you respond to what’s done to you.”

Quote #56: “When you define your goals, you give your brain something new to look for and focus on.”

Quote #57: “You get started by taking one small step, one action at a time.”

Quote #58: “If you really want to maintain a good habit, make sure you pay attention to it at least once a day, and you’re far more likely to succeed.”

Quote #59: “Motivation without action leads to self-delusion.”

Quote #60: “Falling is part of getting better.”

Quote #61: “Fear is not real. It’s an illusion, a phenomenon that resides entirely within your own brain.”

Quote #62: “The activities that you are most afraid of are the activities that can cause a breakthrough in your success.”

Quote #63: “Unsuccessful people carry their goals around in their head like marbles rattling around in a can.”

Quote #64: “It’s not getting to the wall that counts;
it’s what you do after you hit it.”

Quote #65: “My mentor Jim Rohn said, ‘The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life.’”

Quote #66: “When it comes to breaking old habits and starting new ones, remember to be patient with yourself.
You’ve got to expect it’s going to take time and effort before you see lasting results.”

Quote #67: “We are all self-made men and women, but only the successful take credit for it.

Quote #68: “Track every action that relates to the area of your life you want to improve. All winners are trackers.”

Quote #69: “Don’t wait another day to start the small disciplines that will lead you in the direction of your goals!”

Quote #70: “Dreams come with strings attached:
Hard work, determination, persistence, sacrifice, compromise, and passion.”

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Quote #71: “Critics are bitter dreamers gone scared. Empathize and ignore.”

Quote #72: “Your biggest challenge isn’t that you’ve intentionally been making bad choices. Your biggest challenge is that you’ve been sleepwalking through your choices.”

Quote #73: “We all come into this world the same: naked, scared, and ignorant. After that grand entrance, the life we end up with is simply an accumulation of the choices we make.

Quote #74: “Psychological studies reveal that 95 percent of everything we feel, think, and achieve is a result of a learned habit!”

Quote #75: “If you’re falling short of your income goals, it’s because you’re wasting time doing low-value work.”

Quote #76: “The key to success is massive failure.
Your goal is to out-fail your competition.”

Quote #77: “You don’t succeed just by learning. You have to study, then do. We need to learn less and do more.”

Quote #78: “Don’t wait for anyone’s permission to be successful, take it.”

Quote #79: “A goal that is not in writing is merely a fantasy.”

Quote #80: “You’ve got to want something, and know why you want it, or you’ll end up giving up too easily.”

Quote #81: “As a leader, I am my only constraint. The number one bottleneck or constraint to the growth of any organization is the leader.”

Quote #82: “You can’t be a great leader if you spend your time doing tasks that aren’t actually leadership.”

Quote #83: “Success has less to do with what we can get ourselves to do and more to do with keeping ourselves from doing what we shouldn’t.”

Quote #84: “If you have more than 3 priorities, you don’t have any.”

Quote #85: “You are only one or two key habits away from a massive transformation in any area of your life.”

Quote #86: “Productivity isn’t magic. It’s discipline.”

Quote #87: “The most successful person in the room is also the one who has failed the most. Go fail.”

Quote #88: “Spend your day pursuing the things you want said in your eulogy. Be the person you ‘could have been’ now.”

Quote #89: “Inspect what you expect from others.”

Quote #90: “Live today as you want to be remembered in the end.”

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Quote #91: “Make sure that the next time you consider saying ‘yes’ it’s a ‘Hell Yeah!’ or don’t even consider it.”

Quote #92: “Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge, or you’ll become a fool.

Let your learning lead to action, and you can become wealthy.”

Quote #93: “The key to greater profits is rarely capturing more clients. The key to greater profits is capturing more valuable clients.”

Quote #94: “Everyone in your organization is learning how to think, act, and react from you. Lead by example.”

Quote #95: “What makes work fun is doing meaningful work.”

Quote #96: “Your goal is to be the dumbest one in the room. Hire people BETTER than you.”

Quote #97: “It’s the fear of fear you fear.”

Quote #98: “DNA has nothing to do with success. Turn your genes into overalls and get to work.”

Quote #99: “Earning success is hard. The process is laborious, tedious, sometimes even boring. Becoming wealthy, influential, and world-class in your field is slow and arduous.”

Quote #100: “Ask yourself each day: If I only did 3 things today, what are the actions that will produce the greatest results in moving me closer to my big goals?”

Quote #101: “Knowledge will enrich you, but only action will turn it into riches.”

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Mike Cahill
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Media Executive and Consultant. Formerly VP of Content at Mic