Top 120 Michael Hyatt Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Our decisions are the one thing we can control. Today’s the day to make those choices really count.”

— Michael Hyatt

102. “Provide guidance, samples, and a deadline. Include a brief description of your product and perhaps a sample. Then offer to send them the entire product. Tell them the kind of endorsement you are looking for. The more specific, the better. I.”

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103. “The people who live and lead with the most joy and contentment are those who have clarity about their priorities. They know what they do best and fill their days with more of those activities.”

— Michael Hyatt

104. “The more belief and confidence we feel toward achieving our goal, the higher the probability of our making the changes required to hit our targets.”

— Michael Hyatt

105. “Our lives are shaped by the questions we ask. Good questions lead to good outcomes. Bad questions lead to bad outcomes.”

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106. “So many of us have settled for what is, rather than what could be.”

— Michael Hyatt

107. “Unless we take the time to regain our perspective and face the reality that life is short, we risk arriving at a destination we didn’t choose – or at least one we wouldn’t prefer.”

— Michael Hyatt

108. “You life matters. You are here for a reason. Your job is to determine why.”

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109. “From a Christian perspective Jesus not only knew what these people needed, he could instantly heal them. But he didn’t. Instead, he asked them to declare what they wanted. It seems their apparent need was not their greatest need. More than healing, they needed clarity.”

— Michael Hyatt

110. “People rarely get more of anything until they have learned to be grateful for what they already have.”

— Michael Hyatt

111. “The deciding vote in your life is yours, not your circumstances.”

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112. “Anything worthwhile is opposed.”

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113. “I can do anything I want. I just can’t do everything I want.”

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114. “Having clarity on where you want to go is one of the most critical components of your life.”

— Michael Hyatt

115. “I have learned to avoid this. The goal is to communicate, not to impress readers with your vocabulary.”

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116. “Oliver Burkeman asks, “What will your life have been, in the end, but the sum total of everything you spent it focusing on?”17.”

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117. “Don’t underestimate the importance of great design. When it comes to selling your product, it can make you or break you.”

— Michael Hyatt

118. “People at any stage will profit by taking the wheel and getting pointed in the right direction.”

— Michael Hyatt

119. “Information consumes the attention of its recipients,” he explained, and “a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”

— Michael Hyatt

120. “In a world where information is freely available, focus becomes one of the most valuable commodities in the workplace.”

— Michael Hyatt

121. “By reaching for what appears to be impossible, we often actually do the impossible; and even when we don’t quite make it, we inevitably wind up doing much better than we would have done.”

— Michael Hyatt

122. “To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. – Oliver Wendell Holmes.”

— Michael Hyatt

123. “If you design your life so that you spend most of your time working on things you are passionate about and proficient at, the discipline to do those things comes easily.”

— Michael Hyatt

124. “The first key difference between an unmet goal and personal success is the belief that it can be achieved.”

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125. “One speaker, Herbert Simon, was a Carnegie Mellon professor of computer science and psychology who later won a Nobel for his work in economics. In his presentation, he warned that the growth of information could become a burden. Why? “Information consumes the attention of its recipients,” he explained, and “a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”1.”

— Michael Hyatt

126. “If you want to master your schedule, increase your efficiency and output, and create more margin in your life for the things you care about, you’ve got to learn how to focus.”

— Michael Hyatt

127. “One of the biggest reasons we don’t succeed with our goals is we doubt we can. We believe they’re out of reach.”

— Michael Hyatt

128. “The truth is that you will never have more of what you want until you become thankful for what you have.”

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129. “No matter how talented you are, if you’re not making a contribution in a certain area, you’re not truly proficient.”

— Michael Hyatt