45+ Benjamin Hardy Quotes for Insight and Perspective

Lots of great Benjamin Hardy quotes here, with more to come!

We pulled these together because Ben is one of our favorite authors and visionary thought leaders. Best selling author, organizational psychologist and popular blogger, we enjoyed an illuminating and inspiring interview with Benjamin Hardy, PhD, organizational psychologist, author, entrepreneur, for the iCreateDaily Podcast.

Many of these quotes were culled from that podcast conversation. Many of the other quotes here came from his book, Personality Isn’t Permanent. This landmark book is as essential in your personal development bookshelf as is Mindset by Carol Dweck and Start With Why, by Simon Sinek.

We will continue to add more over time because one thing’s for sure, whenever we tune into Ben’s books, articles, interviews, presentations, such as his TED talk, or our podcast conversation, he always has gems to share.

Authenticity

Your future self is your authentic self… who you aspire to be.
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher

SOURCE: Personality Isn’t Permanent book by Benjamin Hardy

Choice

The more you own the power of your own decision-making, the more your life and outcomes will be within your control. 
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher, b.1989

SOURCE: Personality Isn’t Permanent book by Benjamin Hardy

Commitment

When you truly commit to the result you want, then your life starts improving.
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher, b.1989

SOURCE: Personality Isn’t Permanent book by Benjamin Hardy

When you commit to a specific outcome, you’ve got to make that outcome your new narrative.
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher, b.1989

SOURCE: Personality Isn’t Permanent book by Benjamin Hardy

Confidence 

“Confidence is built by making progress in an intentional way.”
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher, b.1989

SOURCE: ICreateDaily Podcast

 Consciousness

“If you don’t imagine the future… if you don’t think about it and you don’t frame it, then you can’t be intentional. You can’t live consciously.”
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher, b.1989

SOURCE: ICreateDaily Podcast

“If you’re not living consciously, you’re living subconsciously… you’re essentially on autopilot being who you were yesterday.”
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher, b.1989

SOURCE: ICreateDaily Podcast

Context and Environment

“Your context determines your options and your options determine your choices.”
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author – Willpower Doesn’t Work

SOURCE: ICreateDaily Podcast

“Environment matters a lot. You can consciously shape your environment… shape your situation, so that you can become who you want to be, and if you don’t you’re probably not going to become who you want to be.”
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author-Willpower Doesn’t Work

SOURCE: ICreateDaily Podcast

“Labeling yourself is one of the fastest ways to become mindless about context.”
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher

SOURCE: ICreateDaily Podcast

Courage

Confidence is built through acts of courage.
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher

SOURCE: Personality Isn’t Permanent book by Benjamin Hardy

Emotions

Emotions are physical. Emotions and memories have physical markers in your body.
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher

SOURCE: Personality Isn’t Permanent book by Benjamin Hardy

Focus

“Success isn’t that difficult; it merely involves taking twenty steps in a singular direction. Most people take one step in twenty directions.”
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher

SOURCE: Willpower Doesn’t Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success

Future Self and Benjamin Hardy Quotes

“Without a future self, you don’t know who you are today. It doesn’t matter who you are if you don’t know who you plan to be.”
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher

SOURCE: ICreateDaily Podcast

“It’s your responsibility to set your future self up for as much opportunity, success, and joy as possible. This is how you become the person and create the life you want, rather than becoming someone with regret.” 
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, entrepreneur

SOURCE: Personality Isn’t Permanent book by Benjamin Hardy

“Deliberate is another word for conscious and you can’t be conscious or deliberate if you don’t have a direction. That’s why the future self is crucial. Without a future self, you don’t know who you are today.”
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher

SOURCE: ICreateDaily Podcast

“Your future should be the predictor of who you are today, not the past.”
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher

SOURCE: ICreateDaily Podcast

“Your current self has different preferences than your future self. And your future self would probably have different preferences than your current self.”
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher

SOURCE: ICreateDaily Podcast

“If you don’t have a future self, you can’t be consistent with the future, you can only be consistent with the past.”
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher

SOURCE: ICreateDaily Podcast

“There’s no more beautiful feeling than the feeling of fully owning who you want to be.” 
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher

SOURCE: ICreateDaily Podcast

Who cares who you’ve been. Who do you want to be?
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher

SOURCE: Personality Isn’t Permanent

Goals and Benjamin Hardy Quotes

Goals are really good for allowing your brain to focus on something.”
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher

SOURCE: ICreateDaily Podcast

“When you’ve overly assumed a label [for yourself], you then set goals to reinforce the label rather than setting goals you genuinely want. Labels lead to a fixed mindset.
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher

SOURCE: ICreateDaily Podcast

“Goals don’t become realities without constant reminders.”
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher

“I’m a believer that the goal really does shape the process.”
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, writer

SOURCE: ICreateDaily Podcast

“The major reason people don’t set huge goals is because they don’t want to disappoint themselves if they don’t achieve the goal.”
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, writer

SOURCE: YouTube: Why You Should Set Huge Goals

“If you set huge targets and if you don’t hit those targets but you make massive progress, you will be happy.”
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, writer

SOURCE: YouTube: Why You Should Set Huge Goals

“I’m very big on process being a product of a goal.”
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, writer

SOURCE: ICreateDaily Podcast

“You don’t want to leave your future self hanging due to neglect, bad planning, or poor decisions on the part of your present self.”
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, writer

SOURCE: Personality Isn’t Permanent

Growth

“I’m all about adapting and figuring things out. There’s always something in the current system that you can use [to grow].”
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, writer

SOURCE: ICreateDaily Podcast

“It’s harder to imagine the future we want than to remember the past we’ve lived through.”
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, writer

SOURCE: Personality Isn’t Permanent

“Imagination is a skill to be developed, one that few adults truly master. Instead, adults become less creative and imaginative as they age…”
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, writer

SOURCE: Personality Isn’t Permanent

Identity and Benjamin Hardy Quotes

“Your identity is shaped on what you want… on what you’re striving for.”
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher

SOURCE: ICreateDaily Podcast

“Who you want to be in the future is more important than who you are now, and should actually inform who you are now. Your intended future self should direct your current identity and personality far more than your former self does.” 
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher

SOURCE: ICreateDaily Podcast

Your future self really is essential to understanding what you are to do here and now. You start with future identity.
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher

SOURCE: ICreateDaily Podcast

Your future identity really clarifies your current self. Without a future self you can’t have a current self.
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher

SOURCE: ICreateDaily Podcast

Once you set an identity of the future self you want to be, you set a goal to create that identity.
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher

SOURCE: ICreateDaily Podcast

Personalities and Benjamin Hardy Quotes

RESEARCH REVEALS:
Personality can be intentionally changed through goal-setting and sustained personal effort.
2015 study by Drs. Nathan Hudson and Chris Fraley

Personality changes accelerate when people are leading meaningful and satisfying lives. 
Study published in 2013 by Drs. Christopher Soto and Jule Specht

~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, writer

SOURCE: Personality Isn’t Permanent

“When you allow yourself to stop defining yourself as a certain ‘type’, such as “introvert” or “extrovert”, you become far more open. Your possibilities and choices expand. Your responsibility and agency increase. You can do what you want to do, regardless of how you currently see yourself.  
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, writer

SOURCE: Personality Isn’t Permanent

“I believe that personalities should be created. The challenge with the current view is the idea that it must be discovered. When you seek to discover your personality then your whole goal becomes to confirm who you really are. But when you seek to create, then you become the creator and your goals become the shaper of your personality versus your personality being the shaper of your goals. And that’s crucial because your goals can transform you in so many beautiful ways.”
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, writer

SOURCE: ICreateDaily Podcast

Perfectionism

On Procrastination:
“It’s better to be anxiously engaged in a good cause, and to realize it’s okay to do imperfect stuff.”
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher

SOURCE: iCreateDaily Podcast

Relationships

The Self Expansion Model:
“We expand in our efficacy — our ability to produce results in life, based on our relationships. We expand our efficacy through relationships because we embed the strengths of each of us.”
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher

SOURCE: iCreateDaily Podcast

Struggle and Striving Quotes by Benjamin Hardy

Striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal is how you live a good present.
~Benjamin Hardy, psychologist, author–Personality Isn’t Permanent

SOURCE: YouTube: Demand Success of Your FUTURE SELF

Success Quotes by Benjamin Hardy

“Success isn’t that difficult; it merely involves taking twenty steps in a singular direction. Most people take one step in twenty directions.”
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher

SOURCE: Willpower Doesn’t Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success

Transformation

“I think to focus on the gains and not the gaps is one of the biggest ways to transform your past.”
~Benjamin Hardy, psychologist, author, writer

SOURCE: iCreateDaily Podcast

You have to have a future self in mind in order to practice in a certain way to go through a process that’s transformational.
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, writer

SOURCE: iCreateDaily Podcast

“Your goals can transform you in so many beautiful ways.”
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, writer

SOURCE: iCreateDaily Podcast

Visioning

“If you were genuinely honest about what you’d love to be doing; who you’d love to be… if you dared to admit what you wanted, and you start visioning that every day, the next major step is to tell everyone. Admitting that that’s not who you are now, but that’s who you want to be… beginning to be honest about who you’re striving to be allows your words to match your vision. It’s really important to tell everyone about what you’re trying to do. It really aligns you in your environment.”
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher

SOURCE: ICreateDaily Podcast

“It’s best to make decisions based on what your future, not your present, self wants.” 
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher

SOURCE: ICreateDaily Podcast

“You have to fix in your mind on what you want, and you’ve got to make that your new identity so that your behavior flows through that.” 
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, philosopher, b.1989

SOURCE: YouTube – Demand Success of Your Future Self

We hope you’ll join us for the informative and inspiring conversation with Benjamin Hardy on the iCreateDaily Podcast.

How much time do you spend imagining your future self? 
~Benjamin Hardy, psychologist, author, entrepreneur

SOURCE: Personality Isn’t Permanent

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