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"Atomic Habits" by @JamesClear has:

• 50,000+ reviews on Amazon
• 250,000+ reviews on Goodreads
• 5,000,000+ copies sold worldwide

Here are 20 of my favorite quotes from it:

“You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.”

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

“Progress requires unlearning. Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.”

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

“You have the power to change your beliefs about yourself. Your identity is not set in stone. You have a choice in every moment. You can choose the identity you want to reinforce today with the habits you choose today.”

“There are no good or bad habits. There are only effective habits. That is, effective at solving problems. All habits serve you in some way—even the bad ones—which is why you repeat them.”

“The process of behavior change always starts with awareness. You need to be aware of your habits before you change them.”

“Environment is the invisible hand that shapes human behavior.”

“Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.”

“Instead of trying to engineer a perfect habit from the start, do the easy thing on a more consistent basis. You have to standardize before you can optimize.”

“It’s better to do less than you hoped than to do nothing at all.”

“Sometimes success is less about making good habits easy and more about making bad habits hard.”

“Put another way, the costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future.”

“Never miss twice. If you miss one day, try to get back on the tracks as quickly as possible.”

“The greatest threat to success is not failure but boredom. We get bored with habits because they stop delighting us.”

“Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.”

“The holy grail of habit change is not a single 1 percent improvement, but a thousand of them. It’s a bunch of atomic habits stacking up, each one a fundamental unit of the overall system.”

“The secret to getting results that last is to never stop making improvements. It’s remarkable what you can build if you just don’t stop.”

“Make your habits as easy as possible to start. Anyone can meditate for one minute, read one page, or put one item of clothing away.”

“The people with the best self-control are typically the ones who need to use it the least. It’s easier to practice self-restraint when you don’t have to use it very often.”

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