The One Thing Quotes

“Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls-- family, health, friends, integrity-- are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.”

“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.”

“It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world.”

Make sure every day you do what matters most. When you know what matters most, everything makes sense. When you don’t know what matters most, anything makes sense.”

You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.

“Success demands singleness of purpose.”

“Passion for something leads to disproportionate time practicing or working at it. That time spent eventually translates to skill, and when skill improves, results improve. Better results generally lead to more enjoyment, and more passion and more time is invested. It can be a virtuous cycle all the way to extraordinary results.”

“Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.”

When people look back on their lives, it is the things they have not done that generate the greatest regret...People’s actions may be troublesome initially; it is their inactions that plague them most with long-term feelings of regret.

“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.”

“Extraordinary results happen only when you give the best you have to become the best you can be at your most important work.”

“A life worth living might be measured in many ways, but the one way that stands above all others is living a life of no regrets.”