T. Harv Eker Quotes

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.

I gave myself a mental shake. Snapping out of a slump, that was what today was all about.

It takes a big person to avoid small worries.

We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

You should rather be grateful for the weeds you have in your mind, because eventually they will enrich your practice.

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.

Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest, strongest, wisest person that I can be.

That a man can change himself…and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought.”(Christian D. Larson)

Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy.

The lessons we learn from patience will cultivate our character, lift our lives, and heighten our happiness.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

If you correct your mind the rest of your life will fall into place.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

The best recipe for happiness and contentment I've seen is this: dig a big hole in the garden of your thoughts and put into it all your disillusions, disappointments, regrets, worries, troubles, doubts, and fears. Cover well with the earth of fruitfulness. Water it from the well of contentment. Sow on top the seeds of hope, courage, strength, patience, and love. Then when the time for gathering comes, may your harvest be a rich and fruitful one.

The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see it and lean in. Instead of blaming our discomfort on outer circumstances or on our own weakness, we can choose to stay present and awake to our experience, not rejecting it, not grasping it, not buying the stories that we relentlessly tell ourselves. This is priceless advice that addresses the true cause of suffering—yours, mine, and that of all living beings.

I'm the one I need to work with.

Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.

It's amazing to realize that a lot of the insecurities I had when I was younger have pretty much disappeared.

Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.