The Charge Quotes

“No matter your position, circumstances, or opportunities in life, you always have the freedom of mind to choose how you experience, interpret, and, ultimately, shape your world.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

“You are a child of God, and that alone makes you worthy of care and love. If your guard is up, let it down. If you’ve constructed a defensive wall to protect yourself and keep all the bad guys out, don’t forget who that wall also prevents from getting in—the good guys.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

“Optimists are happier in life for a reason.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

“I like to remind people that creativity also isn't a spark; it's a slog. Every artist, inventor, designer, writer, or other creative in the world will talk about his work being an iterative experience. He'll start with one idea, shape it, move it, combine it, break it, begin anew, discover something within himself, see a new vision, go at it again, test it, share it, fix it, break it, hone it, hone it, hone it, hone it. This might sound like common sense, but it's not common practice, and that's why so many people are terribly uncreative - they're not willing to do the work required to create something that's beautiful, useful, desirable, celebrated. No masterpiece was shaped or written in a day. It's a long slog to get something right. This knowledge and willingness to iterate is what makes the world's most creative people so creative (and successful).”
― Brendon Burchard, The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

“The charged life, then, usually calls to us after we have done what we were supposed to do, become who we thought we were supposed to be, lived as we thought we were supposed to live. Then the safety and comfort and compromise get to us, and a stirring of restlessness and revolution sends us off in search of greater adventures and meaning. From THE CHARGE”
― Brendon Burchard, The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

“Beginning today, set an intention and a relentless focus on living your life as the greatest person you can be, in all situations. Demand that you demonstrate a strength of character in such a way that you find pride in who you are, and that others see you as a role model.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

“There are two things that change your life: either something new comes into your life, or something new comes out of you.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

“Your ultimate life experience and legacy is being built moment by moment, day by day. Your story is being crafted by your every action, all leading somewhere, all leading to what one hopes will be a magnificent crescendo.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

“Ask not what you are getting from the world but, rather, what you are giving to the world.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

“It turns out that the grandest needle mover in your depth of control over your life is your outlook, the quality of the meaning you attach to the events in your life and your future.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

“When your actions are congruent with who you want to be in life, how you want to feel, and what you think you should be doing and achieving, then you start to have a stronger internal constitition. You feel more grounded, responsible, sure. A new level of harmony and steadiness enters your life, and you feel proud of who you are and how you interact with the world. You barely blink at an unsteady and uncertain world, because you find steadiness and certainty within. Life becomes yours.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

“entire life is deciding to control the quality of person you will be on an everday basis. What will you stand for? What kind of positive values, standards, and beliefs will you demonstrate each day? How much honesty, integrity, fairness, and kindness will you insist upon”
― Brendon Burchard, The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

“I bring all this up because in the end our self-image is a self-fulfilling prophecy—remember, our human drive makes us behave in accordance with that image. So if you’re running your life based on an old, outdated, past self-image shaped by others’ opinions and actions, then you’re in big trouble.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

“His brains, assertiveness, and name helped him climb the ladder, but he’ll need to learn the truth we all stumble onto at some point: only the more humanly connected, caring, and emotionally engaged among us ever become number one at any endeavor (or truly happy, for that matter).”
― Brendon Burchard, The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

“your level of engagement and enthusiasm will skyrocket when you decide to participate only in projects you can be fully invested in and be a part of from beginning to end.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

“I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do for any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. —WILLIAM PENN”
― Brendon Burchard, The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

“Talk about love openly. If you can do that, your life will come alive. As Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said, “Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

“It's such a simple formula: More Faith, Less Fear. Believe again and you will begin again.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

“Looking back to the last year of your life, were there times you didn’t chase your dreams because you didn’t believe you’d work hard enough to achieve them, or, if you did work hard your efforts wouldn’t bear fruit? That belief decimates your dreams.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

“you should ask yourself several times during each day: Where shall I focus my thoughts right now?”
― Brendon Burchard, The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive