The 5 AM Club by Robin Sharma

Just finished reading "The 5 AM Club". Some of the best lines are:

1. “Adults are deteriorated, children,”
2. The tragedy is nature’s great purifier. It burns away the fakeness, fear, and arrogance that is of the ego.
3. ‘One who sweats more in training bleeds less in war.’
4. ‘High victory is made in those early morning hours when no one’s watching and while everyone else is sleeping.’
5. “We only hear what we’re ready to hear,”
6. Winning starts at your beginning. And your first hours are when heroes are made.
7. Take excellent care of the front end of your day, and the rest of your day will pretty much take care of itself. Own your morning. Elevate your life.
8. We falsely believe that material from the outside will fill what’s empty within ourselves.
9. “All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.”
10. “Own your morning. Elevate your life.”
11. Rising at 5 AM truly is The Mother of All Routines.
12. The way you begin your day really does determine the extent of focus, energy, excitement, and excellence you bring to it. Each early morning is a page in the story that becomes your legacy.
13. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.
14. Nothing works for those who don’t do the work.
15. Tolstoy once noted that “only people who are capable of loving strongly can suffer great sorrow,” while the Sufi poet Rumi wrote, “You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
16. “One of the big lessons I’ve learned over the years is that giving to other people is a gift you give to yourself.
17. “Own your morning. Elevate your life.
18. “Please remember that appearances can be misleading and clothing doesn’t convey one’s character. Yesterday you met a great man.
19. Looks really do not reveal the quality of a person.”
20. “Mark Twain wrote, ‘Mauritius was made first, and then heaven, and heaven copied Mauritius,’”
21. An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production. Empire makers and history-creators take one hour for themselves before dawn, in the serenity that lies beyond the clutches of complexity, to prepare themselves for a world-class day.
22. Excuses breed no genius. Just because you haven’t installed the early-rising habit before doesn’t mean you can’t do it now.
23. All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.
24. Everything you now find easy you first found difficult. With consistent practice, getting up with the sun will become your new normal. And automatic.
25. “A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.” —Steven Pressfield
26. most people stay the same their entire lives.
27. The old ‘you’ must die before the best ‘you’ can be born.
28. A bad day for the ego is a great day for the soul. And what your voice of fear claims is a mean season the light of your wisdom knows is a splendid gift.”
29. ‘Give up the drop, become the ocean.’”
30. Being a high-impact leader never requires being a disrespectful person.
31. The more powerful a person truly is, the less they need to promote it. And the stronger a leader is, the less they need to announce it.”
32. “George Orwell said that,“‘The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it,’” 
33. Alice Walker said that.”Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul,’” the artist carried on.
34. Philip of Macedonia in a message to Sparta: “You are advised to submit without further delay, for if I bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people and raze your city.” Sparta’s reply: “If.”
35. Virtuosity is a voyage.
36. “What will those who know you whisper about how you lived once you’re no longer here?”
37. “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
38. “Dedication and discipline beat brilliance and giftedness every day of the week.
39. “Victims have big TVs. Leaders own large libraries.”
40. Alexander the Great once said: ‘I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.’”
41. ‘Most people take the limits of their vision to be the limits of the world.
42. We become our associations. And you’ll never have a positive influence in your field and make a beautiful life if you hang with negative people,”
43. there’s a staggering difference between being busy and being productive.
44. Freedom from Distraction.
45. Simplify. Streamline everything. Become a purist.
46. “Stop managing your time and start managing your focus,”
47. One of the fascinating traits of our ancient brain is its negativity bias. To keep us safe, it’s far less interested in what’s positive in our environment and significantly more invested in letting us know what’s bad.
48. ‘If you plan on being anything less than who you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.’
49. Early in the morning ‘there is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.’”
50. The hours that The 95% waste The Top 5% treasure.
51. Everything you do in your outer world is an absolute consequence of what’s happening within you.
52. Your influence in the world mirrors the glory, nobility, vitality, and luminosity you’ve accessed in yourself.
53. Mahatma Gandhi: “The only devils in the world are those running in our own hearts. That is where the battle should be fought.”
54. Your past is a place to be learned from, not a home to be lived in.”
55. Calibrating your mindset is an essential move to make toward the personal mastery that will then lead to a legendary outer reality.
56. ‘unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.’
57. Consistency really is a key ingredient of mastery. And regularity is a necessity if you’re amped to make history.”
58. Often, a bad example teaches us more about who we wish to become than a good one could ever provide.
59. World-class willpower isn’t an inborn strength, but a skill developed through relentless practice. Getting up at dawn is perfect self-control training.
60. Personal discipline is a muscle. The more you stretch it, the stronger it grows.
61. Increasing self-control in one area of your life elevates self-control in all areas of your life.
62. Victory demands consistency and persistence.
63. The way you practice in private is precisely the way you’ll perform once you’re in public.
64. The single best way to build your willpower is to voluntarily put yourself into conditions of discomfort.
65. Legendary performers practice being spectacular for so long that they no longer remember how to behave in non-spectacular ways.”
66. you shouldn’t have any technology in your bedroom.
67. You become undefeatable in the world by what you do when no one’s watching.”
68. We make our worst decisions and our lowest choices when we’re exhausted.
69. When faced with a choice, always choose the one that pushes you the most, increase your growth, and promote the unfoldment of your gifts, talents, and personal prowess.
70. The old you must die so a better you can be reborn.
71. “Nothing’s as valuable as my happiness. Nothing’s as priceless as my peace of mind,”
72. Life is too short to take things too seriously.
73. Mother Teresa: “If everyone would only clean their own doorstep, the whole world would be clean.”
74. To make a habit last, never install it alone.
75. The teacher learns the most.
76. When you most feel like quitting is the time you must continue advancing.
77. Procrastination is an act of self-hatred.
78. Our thinking creates our results. And the less we value ourselves and our powers,” he went on, “the less power we have access to.”
79. ‘Train harder. Live longer’
80. Carrying past pain is so exhausting.
81. Calm performers are the highest achievers.
82. “The early morning has gold in its mouth.”
83. “Rise First. Die Last.”
84. Seven and a half hours of sleep each night.
85. ‘If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change toward him. We need not wait to see what others do.’”
86. A happy wife means a happy life.
87. “Everyone dreams of being a legend until it comes time to do the work that legends do.”
88. “The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.”
89. The Tight Bubble of Total Focus.
90. For the next ninety days, schedule yourself to invest the first ninety minutes of your workday on the one activity that, when completed at world-class, will cause you to own your field.
91. During the second pocket of your Victory Hour, list the five tiny targets you wish to accomplish over the day ahead for you to feel it was one well-spent.
92. Naturalist John Muir expressed it well when he said: “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
93. “With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?” —Oscar Wilde
94. The 5 Assets of Genius,” continued Mr. Riley as he looked at the diagram, “are your mental focus, your physical energy, your personal willpower, your original talent, and your daily time.
95. All work and no break depletes your greatness, over time.”
96. “Growth happens in the resting phase—not in the performing stage. it’s okay to have a few days off every week.”
97. Take at least two full days off each week. No technology.
98. “Your heart is always wiser than your head,” he repeated softly. “It knows where you must be. Follow it. Trust it. You’ll find the magic.”
99. To Create Magic in the World, Own the Magic within Yourself.
100. “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
101. “Every ending marks a new beginning. All we experience happens for a helpful reason. And when one door closes, another will always open for you,” noted the billionaire. “Trust—always—that life has your back—even if what’s unfolding makes no sense.”
102. Failure Inflates Fearlessness.
103. “It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default,” said J.K. Rowling.
104. Avoid Bad People.
105. Continue Raising Your Life Standards Toward Absolute World-Class.
106. Invest in the finest books you can buy, and you’ll be rewarded in multiples.
107. Be around flowers often—they raise your frequency as well as your ability to see the alternate universe all visionaries tap into.
108. “Live like a hero. That’s what the classics teach us. Be the main character. Otherwise, what is life for?” —J.M. Coetzee
109. As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.’
110. ‘Suffering can either embitter us or ennoble us.’
111. “All the best men and women of the world have one thing in common,” said The Spellbinder: “extreme suffering. And each of them evolved into their greatness because they chose to leverage their circumstances to heal, purify, and uplift themselves.”