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Discipline
On willpower, consistency, and showing up when motivation runs out.
Read quotes →Habits
On routines, systems, and the small actions that compound.
Read quotes →Anxiety
On worry, stress, and finding steadiness in an anxious mind.
Read quotes →Happiness
On joy, contentment, and what a good life actually feels like.
Read quotes →Fear & Courage
On facing fear, taking the leap, and acting despite being afraid.
Read quotes →Love
On intimacy, connection, and learning to love well.
Read quotes →Money
On wealth, enough, and a healthier relationship with money.
Read quotes →Focus
On attention, deep work, and resisting distraction.
Read quotes →Success
On achievement, goals, and what winning really requires.
Read quotes →Failure
On mistakes, setbacks, and learning from what goes wrong.
Read quotes →Confidence
On self-worth, self-esteem, and believing you are enough.
Read quotes →Time
On how we spend our hours and the finite life they add up to.
Read quotes →Mindfulness
On presence, meditation, and coming back to the moment.
Read quotes →Purpose
On meaning, direction, and why any of it matters.
Read quotes →Change
On transformation and becoming who you want to be.
Read quotes →Relationships
On friendship, connection, and the people around us.
Read quotes →Growth
On improvement, potential, and the long climb of getting better.
Read quotes →Creativity
On imagination, inspiration, and making things.
Read quotes →Browse by book
Every book’s quotes.
A
- ADHD 2.0 →
- AI 2041 →
- AI Superpowers →
- Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man →
- Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success →
- Active Listening Techniques →
- Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents →
- Adulting →
- Algorithms to Live By →
- All About Love →
- All Boys Aren't Blue →
- All Joy and No Fun →
- All Marketers Are Liars →
- American Prometheus →
- Antifragile →
- Anxiety at Work →
- Anxiety in Relationship →
- Anxious for Nothing →
- Anxiously Attached →
- Are You Mad at Me? →
- Areté →
- As a Man Thinketh →
- Ask and It Is Given →
- Atlas of the Heart →
- Atomic Habits →
- Attached →
- Attitude Is Everything →
- Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment →
- Autophagy →
- Awaken the Giant Within →
- The Alchemist →
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant →
- The Anatomy of Peace →
- The Anthropocene Reviewed →
- The Antidote →
- The Anxious Generation →
- The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help →
- The Art of Everyday Assertiveness →
- The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters →
- The Art of Happiness →
- The Art of Learning →
- The Art of Living →
- The Art of Loving →
- The Art of Possibility →
- The Art of Reading Minds →
- The Art of Seduction →
- The Art of Thinking Clearly →
- The Art of War →
- The Art of Witty Banter →
- The Artist's Way →
- The Automatic Millionaire →
B
- Bad Therapy →
- Barking Up the Wrong Tree →
- Be Calm →
- Be Useful →
- Be Your Future Self Now →
- Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon →
- Better Small Talk →
- Better Than Before →
- Beyond Good and Evil →
- Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life →
- Big Magic →
- Biohack Your Brain →
- Bird by Bird →
- Bittersweet →
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking →
- Bonk →
- Boundaries →
- Brain Rules →
- Braving the Wilderness →
- Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself →
- Breath →
- Breathe to Succeed →
- Broke Millennial →
- Buddha's Brain →
- Build the Life You Want →
- Building a Second Brain →
- Burnout →
- Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies →
- Buyology →
- The Big Leap →
- The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love →
- The Body Keeps the Score →
- The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read →
- The Book of Five Rings →
- The Book of Joy →
- The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse →
- The Bullet Journal Method →
C
- Calling in "The One" →
- Calm the F*ck Down →
- Can't Hurt Me →
- Change Your Brain, Change Your Life →
- Chatter →
- Chicken Soup for the Soul →
- Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess →
- Clear Thinking →
- Codependent No More →
- Come as You Are →
- Complex PTSD →
- Contagious →
- Conversations on Love →
- Create Space →
- Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life →
- Creativity, Inc. →
- Cribsheet →
- Critique of Pure Reason →
- Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High →
- Cues →
- The Catalyst →
- The Challenger Sale →
- The Charisma Myth →
- The Checklist Manifesto →
- The Chimp Paradox →
- The Choice →
- The Circadian Code →
- The Code of the Extraordinary Mind: 10 Unconventional Laws to Redefine Your Life and Succeed On Your Own Terms →
- The Comfort Book →
- The Comfort Crisis →
- The Compound Effect →
- The Confidence Code →
- The Confidence Gap →
- The Cosmic Experience of One →
- The Courage to Be Disliked →
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being →
- The Creative Habit →
D
- Dare to Lead →
- Daring Greatly →
- David and Goliath →
- Decisive →
- Declutter Your Mind →
- Decluttering at the Speed of Life →
- Decoded →
- Deep Work →
- Designing Your Life →
- Designing Your Work Life →
- Detox Your Thoughts →
- Die With Zero →
- Difficult Conversations →
- Digital Minimalism →
- Discipline Equals Freedom →
- Discipline Is Destiny →
- Discourses and Selected Writings →
- Do Epic Shit →
- Do It Today →
- Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving →
- Do the Work →
- Don't Believe Everything You Think →
- Don't F*cking Panic: The Shit They Don't Tell You in Therapy About Anxiety Disorder, Panic Attacks, & Depression →
- Don't Feed the Monkey Mind →
- Don't Overthink It →
- Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and It's All Small Stuff →
- Dopamine Detox →
- Dopamine Nation →
- Drama Free →
- Drive →
- Driven to Distraction →
- The Daily Stoic →
- The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships →
- The Danish Way of Parenting →
- The Defining Decade →
- The Definitive Book of Body Language →
- The Diary of a CEO →
- The Dip →
- The Drama of the Gifted Child →
E
- Eat Move Sleep →
- Eat That Frog! →
- Eat, Pray, Love →
- Effective Decision-Making →
- Effortless →
- Ego Is the Enemy →
- Eight Dates →
- Emotional Agility →
- Emotional First Aid →
- Emotional Intelligence →
- Emotional Intelligence 2.0 →
- Essentialism →
- Everybody Lies →
- Everything I Know About Love →
- Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope →
- Everything is Figureoutable →
- Extreme Ownership →
- The Education of Millionaires →
- The Effective Executive →
- The Element →
- The Energy Bus →
F
- Factfulness →
- Fair Play →
- Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway →
- Feel-Good Productivity →
- Feeling Good →
- Feeling Great →
- Fierce Conversations →
- Finish →
- First Things First →
- First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Story About Anxiety →
- Flow →
- Focus →
- Forgiving What You Can't Forget →
- Four Thousand Weeks →
- From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life →
- Full Catastrophe Living →
- The Fifth Agreement →
- The Fine Art of Small Talk →
- The First Minute →
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team →
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven →
- The Four Agreements →
- The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better →
- The Future Is Faster Than You Think →
- The Future of the Mind →
G
- A Gentle Reminder →
- A Guide to Gender →
- A Guide to the Good Life →
- Games People Play →
- Ganbatte! →
- Gap Selling →
- Gaslighting →
- Get Good with Money →
- Get Out of Your Head →
- Get Your Sh*t Together: How to Stop Worrying About What You Should Do So You Can Finish What You Need to Do and Start Doing What You Want to Do →
- Getting Things Done →
- Getting the Love You Want →
- Getting to Yes →
- Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals →
- Girl, Wash Your Face →
- Give and Take →
- Good Inside →
- Good Vibes, Good Life →
- Good to Great →
- Goodbye, Things →
- Greenlights →
- Grit →
- Guns, Germs, and Steel →
- The Game of Life and How to Play It →
- The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning →
- The Gift of Fear →
- The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life →
- The Gifts of Imperfection →
- The Good Life →
- The Great CEO Within →
- The Greatest Salesman in the World →
- The Greatest You →
H
- Habit Stacking →
- Happier at Home →
- Hardcore Self Help: F**k Anxiety →
- Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day! →
- Have a New Sex Life by Friday →
- He Comes Next →
- He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys →
- Healing the Shame that Binds You →
- Hidden Potential →
- High Performance Habits →
- Hold Me Tight →
- Hold On to Your Kids →
- Hooked →
- How Emotions Are Made →
- How Not to Die →
- How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life →
- How We Got to Now →
- How Will You Measure Your Life? →
- How to Be Alone →
- How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question →
- How to Be Your Own Therapist →
- How to Be Yourself →
- How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life →
- How to Be an Adult in Relationships →
- How to Become a People Magnet →
- How to Become a Straight-A Student →
- How to Break Up with Your Phone →
- How to Change Your Mind →
- How to Day Trade for a Living →
- How to Do Nothing →
- How to Do the Work →
- How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big →
- How to Get On with Anyone →
- How to Keep House While Drowning →
- How to Know a Person →
- How to Listen with Intention →
- How to Live on 24 Hours a Day →
- How to Love Someone Without Losing Your Mind →
- How to Not Die Alone →
- How to Read a Book →
- How to Speed Read People →
- How to Stop Worrying and Start Living →
- How to Take Smart Notes →
- How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk →
- How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk →
- How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen →
- How to Talk to Anyone →
- How to Think Like a Roman Emperor →
- How to Win Friends & Influence People →
- How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age →
- Hyperfocus →
- The Happiness Advantage →
- The Happiness Equation →
- The Happiness Hypothesis →
- The Happiness Project →
- The Happiness Trap →
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship →
- The Headspace Guide to Meditation & Mindfulness →
- The Healthy Mind Toolkit →
- The High 5 Habit →
- The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You →
- The How of Happiness →
I
- I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was →
- I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn't) →
- I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki →
- I Will Teach You to Be Rich →
- If You're Not First, You're Last →
- Ikigai →
- Indistractable →
- Influence →
- Intuitive Eating →
- It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle →
- It's Not Supposed to Be This Way →
- It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People →
- It's OK That You're Not OK →
- The Industries of the Future →
- The Inner Game of Tennis →
- The Intelligent Investor →
- The Interpretation of Dreams →
- The Introvert Advantage →
L
- Law of Attraction →
- Laziness Does Not Exist →
- Leaders Eat Last →
- Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box →
- Lean In →
- Learned Optimism →
- Let Go Now →
- Letters from a Stoic →
- Letting Go →
- Life 3.0 →
- Life After Google →
- Limitless →
- Linchpin →
- Lives of the Stoics →
- Lost Connections →
- Love Unfu*ked →
- Love Worth Making →
- Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It →
- Love for Imperfect Things →
- Loving What Is →
- The Last Lecture →
- The Latte Factor →
- The Law of Success →
- The Laws of Human Nature →
- The Lazy Genius Way →
- The Let Them Theory →
- The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck →
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up →
- The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up →
- The Light We Carry →
- The Little Book of Hygge →
M
- A Mind for Numbers →
- A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled →
- Made to Stick →
- Make It Stick →
- Make Time →
- Make Your Bed →
- Man and His Symbols →
- Man's Search for Meaning →
- Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind →
- Manage Your Money Like a F*cking Grown-Up →
- Managing Oneself →
- Manifest →
- Master Your Emotions →
- Mastery →
- Mastery →
- Mating in Captivity →
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone →
- Meditations →
- Meditations for Mortals →
- Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus →
- Microlearning →
- Mindfulness →
- Mindset →
- Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation →
- Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results →
- Models →
- Modern Romance →
- Money: A User's Guide →
- Money: Master the Game →
- Moonwalking with Einstein →
- My Age of Anxiety →
- The Magic →
- The Magic of Thinking Big →
- The Mastery of Love →
- The Midnight Library →
- The Millionaire Fastlane →
- The Millionaire Next Door →
- The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness →
- The Miracle Morning →
- The Miracle of Mindfulness →
- The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny →
- The Motivation Manifesto →
- The Mountain Is You →
- The Myth of Normal →
N
- A New Earth →
- Narcissists and You →
- Negotiation Hacks →
- Neuro-Habits →
- Never Eat Alone →
- Never Finished →
- Never Split the Difference →
- New Dark Age →
- Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers →
- No Bad Parts →
- No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline →
- No More Mr. Nice Guy →
- No Mud, No Lotus →
- No-Drama Discipline →
- Nonviolent Communication →
- Not Nice →
- Notes on a Nervous Planet →
- Nudge →
- The Now Habit →
O
- On Writing →
- On the Shortness of Life →
- One Small Step Can Change Your Life →
- Option B →
- Originals →
- Out of the Shadows →
- Outer Order, Inner Calm →
- Outliers →
- Outlive →
- Outwitting the Devil →
- The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss →
- The Obstacle Is the Way →
- The One Minute Manager →
- The One Thing →
- The Only Plane in the Sky →
- The Organized Mind →
P
- Peace Is Every Step →
- Peak →
- Permission to Feel →
- Pitch Anything →
- Poetics →
- Power Questions →
- Practicing the Power of Now →
- Pre-Suasion →
- Predictably Irrational →
- Presence →
- Present Over Perfect →
- Principles →
- Psycho-Cybernetics →
- Psychopath Free →
- Pure Invention →
- The Paradox of Choice →
- The Parenting Map →
- The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose →
- The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control →
- The Pivot Year →
- The Places That Scare You →
- The Pomodoro Technique →
- The Power →
- The Power of Full Engagement →
- The Power of Habit →
- The Power of Intention →
- The Power of Less →
- The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact →
- The Power of Now →
- The Power of Positive Thinking →
- The Power of Regret →
- The Power of Vulnerability →
- The Power of Writing It Down →
- The Power of Your Subconscious Mind →
- The Practicing Stoic →
- The Price You Pay for College →
- The Prince →
- The Productivity Project →
- The Prophet →
- The Psychology of Money →
- The Purpose Driven Life →
R
- A Return to Love →
- Radical Acceptance →
- Radical Candor →
- Radical Compassion →
- Radical Technologies →
- Raising Securely Attached Kids →
- Range →
- Read People Like a Book →
- Reasons to Stay Alive →
- Red Famine →
- Reinventing Your Life →
- Relationship Goals →
- Relentless →
- Rest →
- Rework →
- Rich Dad Poor Dad →
- Rising Strong →
- Running on Empty →
- The Republic →
- The Richest Man in Babylon →
- The Road Back to You →
- The Road Less Traveled →
- The Road to Character →
- The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry →
S
- A Short History of Nearly Everything →
- Sapiens →
- Scaling Up Excellence →
- Scattered Minds →
- Scrum →
- Secrets of the Millionaire Mind →
- Self-Care for People with ADHD →
- Self-Compassion →
- Self-Discipline in Difficult Times →
- Sell Like Crazy →
- Set Boundaries, Find Peace →
- Sex Talks →
- Sex at Dawn →
- She Comes First →
- Show Your Work! →
- Siddhartha →
- Single On Purpose →
- Six Pillars of Self-Esteem →
- Sleep Smarter →
- Slow Productivity →
- Smarter Faster Better →
- So Good They Can't Ignore You →
- Soundtracks →
- Spark →
- Spark Joy →
- Speed Reading →
- Start with Why →
- Start, Stay, or Leave →
- Steal Like an Artist →
- Stillness Is the Key →
- Stock Investing for Dummies →
- Stolen Focus →
- Stop Checking Your Likes →
- Stop Overthinking →
- Stop People Pleasing →
- Strengths Finder 2.0 →
- Stumbling on Happiness →
- Super Attractor →
- Supercommunicators →
- Surrounded by Idiots →
- Switch →
- The Sacred Search →
- The Science of Getting Rich →
- The Science of Likability →
- The Science of Self-Discipline →
- The Secret →
- The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work →
- The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success →
- The Silva Mind Control Method →
- The Simple Path to Wealth: Your Road Map to Financial Independence and a Rich, Free Life →
- The Slight Edge →
- The Social Experiment Lab →
- The Spy and the Traitor →
- The Strength In Our Scars →
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck →
- The Success Principles →
- The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection →
T
- A Thousand Brains →
- TED Talks →
- Taking Charge of Adult ADHD →
- Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else →
- Talk Like TED →
- Talking to Strangers →
- Tao Te Ching →
- The Talent Code →
- The Tao of Pooh →
- The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down →
- The Tipping Point →
- The Total Money Makeover →
- Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know →
- Think Like a Monk →
- Think Straight: Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life →
- Think and Grow Rich →
- Thinking Sideways: How to Think Like a Chess Player and Win at Life →
- Thinking in Bets →
- Thinking, Fast and Slow →
- This Is Me Letting You Go →
- Tiny Beautiful Things →
- Tiny Habits →
- To Sell Is Human →
- Tools of Titans →
- Toxic Parents →
- Tribe Of Mentors →
- Tuesdays with Morrie →
- Tuổi Trẻ Đáng Giá Bao Nhiêu →
U
- The Universe Has Your Back →
- The Untethered Soul →
- The Upside of Stress →
- The Upward Spiral →
- Ultralearning →
- Unbroken →
- Unf*ck Yourself →
- Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life →
- Unfuck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers →
- Unleash the Power of Storytelling →
- Unlimited Memory →
- Unlimited Power →
- Unmasking Autism →
- Untamed →
- Unwinding Anxiety →
W
- The Wait →
- The War of Art →
- The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self →
- The Way of the Superior Man →
- The Whole-Brain Child →
- The Willpower Instinct →
- The Wisdom of Insecurity →
- Waking Up →
- Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma →
- Way of the Peaceful Warrior →
- What Color Is Your Parachute? →
- What Every Body is Saying →
- What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing →
- What I Know for Sure →
- What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 →
- What My Bones Know →
- What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast: A Short Guide to Making Over Your Mornings--and Life →
- What to Say When You Talk to Yourself →
- When →
- When Breath Becomes Air →
- When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times →
- When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal →
- When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress →
- Wherever You Go, There You Are →
- Who Moved My Cheese? →
- Who Will Cry When You Die? →
- Why Does He Do That? →
- Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? →
- Why Men Love Bitches →
- Why Nations Fail →
- Why We Make Mistakes →
- Why We Meditate →
- Why We Sleep →
- Will I Ever Be Good Enough? →
- Willpower →
- Win Every Argument →
- Winning at Sales →
- Wintering →
- Women Don't Owe You Pretty →
- Women Who Love Too Much →
- Women Who Run With the Wolves →
- Words That Change Minds →
Y
- The Year of Less →
- Year of Yes →
- You Are Not So Smart →
- You Are Your Best Thing →
- You Are a Badass →
- You Are a Badass Every Day →
- You Are a Badass at Making Money →
- You Are the Placebo →
- You Can Heal Your Life →
- You Can Read Anyone →
- You Do You: How to Be Who You Are and Use What You've Got to Get What You Want →
- You Need a Budget →
- You're Not Listening →
- You, Happier →
- Your Erroneous Zones →
- Your Money or Your Life →
#
- #Girlboss →
- $100M Offers →
- 10 Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now →
- 10% Happier →
- 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think →
- 101 Nights of Great Sex →
- 12 Rules for Life →
- 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do →
- 168 Hours →
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century →
- 4 Essential Keys to Effective Communication →
- 8 Rules of Love →
- 9 Japanese Habits That Will Change Your Life →
- The $100 Startup →
- The 10x Rule →
- The 11 Laws of Likability →
- The 12 Week Year →
- The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You →
- The 33 Strategies of War →
- The 4-Hour Body →
- The 4-Hour Workweek →
- The 48 Laws of Power →
- The 5 AM Club →
- The 5 Love Languages →
- The 5 Love Languages of Children →
- The 5 Second Rule →
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People →
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide →
- The 80/20 CEO →
- The 80/20 Principle →
- The 8th Habit →