Top 70 Darren Hardy Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Darren Hardy

2. “If you want to have more, you have to become more. Success is not something you pursue. What you pursue will elude you; it can be like trying to chase butterflies. Success is something you attract by the person you become.”

— Darren Hardy

3. “Starting is not most people’s problem, staying, continuing and finishing is.”

— Darren Hardy

4. “It doesn’t matter how smart you are or aren’t, you need to make up in hard work what you lack in experience, skill, intelligence, or innate ability. If your competitor is smarter, more talented, or experienced, you just need to work three or four times as hard. You can still beat them!”

— Darren Hardy

5. “The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life.”

— Darren Hardy

6. “The most challenging aspect of the Compound Effect is that we have to keep working away for a while, consistently and efficiently, before we can begin to see the payoff.”

— Darren Hardy

7. “Don’t wait another day to start the small disciplines that will lead you in the direction of your goals!”

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8. “When you define your goals, you give your brain something new to look for and focus on. It’s as if you’re giving your mind a new set of eyes from which to see all the people, circumstances, conversations, resources, ideas, and creativity surrounding you.”

— Darren Hardy

9. “It’s easy to be distracted by the job of growing your business. But never forget that your job as a leader is also to grow people.”

— Darren Hardy

10. “Have you ever been bitten by an elephant? How about a mosquito? It’s the little things in life that will bite you.”

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11. “All winners are trackers.”

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12. “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.”

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13. “Courage is not the absence of fear – it’s feeling the fear and proceeding anyway. As Nelson Mandela said, “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

— Darren Hardy

14. “The biggest difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people are willing to do what unsuccessful people are not.”

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15. “Here’s the bottom line: You already know all that you need to succeed. You don’t need to learn anything more. If all we needed was more information, everyone with an Internet connection would live in a mansion, have abs of steel, and be blissfully happy. New or more information is not what you need – a new plan of action is. It’s time to create new behaviors and habits that are oriented away from sabotage and toward success. It’s that simple.”

— Darren Hardy

16. “If you want to have more, you have to become more. You have to grow into your goals.”

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17. “Newton’s First Law, also known as the Law of Inertia: Objects at rest tend to stay at rest unless acted on by an outside force. Objects in motion tend to stay in motion, unless something stops their momentum. Put another way, couch potatoes tend to stay couch potatoes. Achievers – people who get into a successful rhythm – continue busting their butts and end up achieving more and more.”

— Darren Hardy

18. “If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.”

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19. “Knowledge is not power. That’s a myth. It is the potential for power, but it is not power itself. It’s not what you learn or what you know; it’s what you do with what you know and learn.”

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20. “If all the people around you are happy with you, you are not doing great work.”

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21. “I had always thought of sales as a way to get something, I could now see it as a tool for giving. For the first time, I began to understand the strange, wonderful irony that sales isn’t about selling at all.”

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

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23. “As Jim Rohn put it to me, “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. There’s nothing more pitiful than a guy who is smart and broke.”

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24. “You reap what you sow; you can’t get out of life what you’re not willing to put into it. If you want more love, give more love. If you want greater success, help others achieve more. And when you study and master the science of achievement, you will find the success you desire.”

— Darren Hardy

25. “No matter what has happened to you, take complete responsibility for it – good or bad, victory or defeat. Own it. My mentor Jim Rohn said, “The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life.”

— Darren Hardy

26. “So no more whining about the cards you were dealt, the great defeats you suffered, or any other circumstances. Countless people have more disadvantages and greater obstacles than you, and yet they’re wealthier and more fulfilled. Luck is an equal-opportunity distributor. Lady luck shines on all, but rather than having your umbrella overhead, you’ve got to have your face to the sky. When it comes down to it, it’s all you, baby. There’s no other way around it.”

— Darren Hardy

27. “New or more information is not what you need – a new plan of action is. It’s time to create new behaviors and habits that are oriented away from sabotage and toward success.”

— Darren Hardy

28. “Leadership expert John C. Maxwell said, “You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.”

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29. “Everything in your life exists because you first made a choice about something. Choices are at the root of every one of your results. Each choice starts a behavior that over time becomes a habit. Choose poorly, and you just might find yourself back at the drawing board, forced to make new, often harder choices. Don’t choose at all, and you’ve made the choice to be the passive receiver of whatever comes your way.”

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30. “WAKE UP and realize that the habits you indulge in could be compounding your life into repeated disaster.”

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31. “I want you to know in your bones that your only path to success is through a continuum of mundane, unsexy, unexciting, and sometimes difficult daily disciplines compounded over time.”

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32. “A good question to ask yourself before doing anything you think you fear is, “If I do this, am I going to die?” If the answer is no, then your fear is made up, grossly overdramatic, and it should have no power over you.”

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33. “Look, if you’re going to get better, you have to push yourself. If you push yourself, you’re going to fall. If you’re not falling, you’re not pushing. Falling is part of getting better.”

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34. “Luck, circumstances, or the right situation wasn’t what mattered. If it was to be, it was up to me. I was free to fly. No matter who was elected president, how badly the economy tanked, or what anybody said, did, or didn’t do, I was still 100 percent in control of me. Through choosing to be officially liberated from past, present, and future victimhood, I’d hit the jackpot. I had the unlimited power to control my destiny.”

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35. “According to research, it takes three hundred instances of positive reinforcement to turn a new habit into an unconscious practice – that’s almost a year of daily practice!”

— Darren Hardy

36. “You have to be willing to give 100 percent with zero expectation of receiving anything in return,” he said. “Only when you’re willing to take 100 percent responsibility for making the relationship work will it work. Otherwise, a relationship left to chance will always be vulnerable to disaster.”

— Darren Hardy

37. “Most people never live up to the potential they have been given. The results they produce and the life they experience are only a tiny fraction of what they are truly capable of. Why? What stops us? Only one thing: fear.”

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38. “There’s nothing wrong with ordinary. I just prefer to shoot for extraordinary.”

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39. “The magic comes from becoming the person you need to be in order to attract the people or results you wish to meet or achieve.”

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40. “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.”

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41. “We can all make powerful choices. We can all take back control by not blaming chance, fate, or anyone else for our outcomes. It’s within our ability to cause everything to change. Rather than letting past hurtful experiences sap our energy and sabotage our success, we can use them to fuel positive, constructive change.”

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42. “As Jim Collins said in our April 2010 SUCCESS feature, “If you have more than three priorities, you don’t have any.”

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43. “The truth is, complacency has impacted all great empires, including, but not limited to, the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English. Why? Because nothing fails like success.”

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44. “Effective sales is about finding a perceived need and helping someone fulfill it.”

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45. “The question we should be asking ourselves is: “Who do I need to become?”

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46. “When you’re creating an environment to support your goals, remember that you get in life what you tolerate.”

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47. “If we want to succeed, we need to recover our grandparents’ work ethic.”

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48. “Are you willing to make the difficult choices? To do what’s unpopular? It’s not easy, but remember this: When people are calling you out and calling you names, they’re really just calling you a leader.”

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49. “Lou Holtz, the famous football coach, knew it was what you did after you did your best that created victories.”

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50. “I have a serious challenge for you if you’re up for it. Want real feedback? Find people who care enough about you to be brutally honest with you. Ask them these questions: “How do I show up to you? What do you think my strengths are? In what areas do you think I can improve? Where do you think I sabotage myself? What’s one thing I can stop doing that would benefit me the most? What’s the one thing I should start doing?”

— Darren Hardy