206 Quotes by Brendon Burchard

I bring all this up because in the end our self-image is a self-fulfilling prophecy – remember, our human drive makes us behave in accordance with that image. So if you’re running your life based on an old, outdated, past self-image shaped by others’ opinions and actions, then you’re in big trouble.

You probably already know you need to eat healthier, and so I say to you, begin.

What we do with what we have tends to be far more important than what we have in the first place.

Our thoughts will free us or destroy us. Maturity comes in understanding that it is our choice alone to move toward freedom.

The man afflicted by hunger for power or money for its own sake is just that: afflicted. He is tormented by incessant desires for more without cause. He is the most likely to wear a social mask to succeed, and thus he is always unsure of himself and his life, the deep tear inside always causing him to obsess about how to get more, why he doesn’t have it already, and whom he will have to please or become in order to get it.

Let us remember that humanity’s story has only two perennially recurring themes: struggle and progress.

It is the main motivation of humankind to be free, to express our true selves and pursue our dreams without restriction – to experience what may be called Personal Freedom.

Let us remember that humanity’s story has only two perennially recurring themes: struggle and progress. We mustn’t wish the end of the former, as the latter would be buried alongside it. And so let us be clear that the small, complaining, undisciplined part of ourselves – the distracted character wanting nothing but convenience and ease – is unfit to be the ruler of our new destiny.

My dad lived a good life. He was a simple guy. His family had been poor, and he joined the Marines to be able to send money home to his mom and dad and brothers and sisters. He genuinely had the intention to live a good life and to respect other people.