“The first and most important step is to stop saying you are fine. You are not fine. You need to quit pretending that you are, and state for the record what’s bothering you. There is a lot more in store for you than what you’ve got going on right now, and the first step to getting it is to stop pretending that everything is okay.” 

“some of our traits are more fixed and automatic, but many are “free traits” that we can adjust in order to advance a core project in our lives.”

“In all of modern history, no single invention has so perfectly captured the perverse power of the mind to defeat its own best intentions as the snooze button. Situated” 

“It’s not because things are difficult that we don’t dare. It’s because we don’t dare that things are difficult.” 

“It’s called “locus of control.” The more that you believe that you are in control of your life, your actions and your future, the happier and more successful you’ll be.” 

You can't control how you feel. But you can always choose how you act.” 

You must learn how to separate what you feel from the actions that you take.

“Change is hard. Logically, we know what we should do, but our feelings about doing it make our decision for us. How you feel in the moment is almost never aligned with your goals and dreams. If you only act when you feel like it, you will never get what you want.

“So I made myself a simple promise: If I knew that I should do something that could change me for the better, then I would use the Rule to push myself to do it, regardless of how I felt.” 

“Most of us don’t even realize how often we hesitate because we’ve done it so often that it’s become a habit.” 

“Either you run the day or the day runs you.” 

“Using the Rule strengthens your belief that you do have the ability to control your own fate—because you are proving it to yourself one push at a time.” 

“If you can get up on time, start your day powerfully, plan ahead, think about your goals, and focus on yourself, all before you get bogged down in your daily routine, then you will simply accomplish more. This is the first step to taking control of your life.” 

“That moment of hesitation is a killer. Hesitation sends a stress signal to your brain. It’s a red flag that signals something’s wrong—and your brain goes into protection mode. This is how we are wired to fail. Think about this for a minute.” 

“You aren’t supposed to be stuck. You are supposed to be doing something amazing with your life.” 

It's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!

I think there is a part of life that I'm missing.

My mind is constantly going. For me to completely relax, I gotta get rid of my cell phone.

Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.

I'm like a shark. I've got to be constantly moving.

I don't think I ever feel sexy. I don't think that's for me to decide, if I'm sexy or not.

I'll admit I'm a workaholic.

I was standing onstage last year, and I felt like I wanted to be somewhere else. No matter how many people were out there, it all just felt like a blank sheet of paper.

The last couple of years I've been on an empty tank. And that's gotta change.

I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.

People who can't kiss had everything given to them.

It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.

I have 120 employees on the road every day, and about 30 other employees off the road.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, I'm a helluva kisser.

I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and the next day I started to do that.

Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.

I want there to be a level of respect between everybody.

There's this idea that somebody's job could be more important than somebody else's, and to me, that's not true.

I'm so hands-on, from the color of my tour bus to what I eat for dinner at 5 or the way the lights are hung.

I work hard but I play hard.

You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.

Over the years I've had people tell me that they come to my show to escape.

I've always been drawn to the ocean.

I need to recharge creatively, and get off the clock of having to be somewhere just because, and having to keep juggling all these things.

Music's supposed to come from the heart. I felt like that if it ever got mechanical, I was going to back away from it.

Me and my band and crew have always lived by the code: 'Work hard, play harder.'

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

In all the years that I've been doing this, I've never launched a tour and launched an album at basically the same time. Doing one of those things is enough!

It was satisfying to take a risk and see it pay off.

I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.

I want to spend more time with my family.

Southern girls are God's gift to the entire male population. There is absolutely no woman finer than one raised below the mason-dixon line and once you go southern may the good Lord help you - you never go back

I would like to be married and have kids. I would like to do that... Yes, I could see me settling down at some point.

I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.