Steve Maraboli Quotes - Page 3

Every day I’m convinced that I can’t possibly love you more… and every day I’m proven wrong.

A Happiness key: Maintain something to be enthusiastic about. Small/frequent goals = Dopamine hits that propel success.

Stop pointing fingers and placing blame on others. Your life can only change to the degree that you accept responsibility for it.

Understanding the beauty of our humanity unlocks the power of our spirituality.

What we instill in our children will be the foundation upon which they build their future.

Don't limit yourself to someone else's opinion of your capabilities. Be you. Dream, plan, execute!

If I do not personify God, you call me an atheist. But I do not personify God because I refuse to limit God to the boundaries of my imagination... or yours.

Give freely, love fully, and play with fervor! Don’t put so many conditioned rules on your happiness. Life can be a beautiful experience if we allow it.

Let today be the day you finally release yourself from the imprisonment of past grudges and anger. Simplify your life. Let go of the poisonous past and live the abundantly beautiful present... today.

What we call consciousness is our ability to perceive stimuli and to file it within the parameters of our personal story.

A lot of books in the self-help section of your bookstore really belong in the fiction section.

The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.

When you say "I" and "my" too much, you lose the capacity to understand the "we" and "our".

Stop blaming outside circumstances for your inside chaos.

Stop focusing on what you don’t want; it’s a tremendous waste of time and energy. Instead, start focusing on what you do want. This is the only way to create a plan of action which will enable you to experience the life you envision.

Be fueled by the opportunities of today. Do not be passive in your life. Be courageous in driving forward in this journey of life. I know people will try to push you back. I know life will challenge you to find refuge in the past. I know the present induces fear. Do not be fooled into backwards living. Be courageous enough to keep moving forward.

I will never forget seeing what hate can destroy… I will never forget seeing what love can heal…

The art of letting go is simply about personal empowerment. Realizing what you’re in charge of, realizing what you control, and more importantly, what you don’t control.

One of life's great challenges is getting out of your own way after a divorce or breakup... Heartache and anger make you feel like enemies, but your children need you to be a team. Unfortunately, few rise to this challenge, and the children pay an emotional debt they did not incur.

We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous… but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination, the poison of inaction.

Be the type of man a wife would cherish and a child would admire.

It’s never lost on me that it was the religious who Jesus had to challenge not to throw stones.

When used as a tool, fear will enhance your preparedness; when used as a guide, it will stop your progress.

It is our action that determines the viability of our dream.

Your silence is loudest to those who love you most.

You are my home; it is in your loving gaze that I find the comfort, acceptance, and the sense of belonging.

Country music is the poetry of the American spirit.

If you would stop worrying about things you don’t control and release what God has put into you, you will change everything around you.

I feel so grateful to discover that each new day brings me the opportunity to watch the sunrise and fall in love with you again.

We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.

I will not play it safe! I want to experience the length, depth, and breadth of life. I'm not just here for the victories... I'm here for the scars.

When I tell you that you’re beautiful, I don’t just mean your appearance. I mean all of you; who and what you are, is beautiful.

A mindset of gratitude lifts the veil of bitterness and allows you to see beauty and possibility.

The longer you chase the wrong person, the further you travel in the wrong direction. You're better than that.

Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.

I've come to learn that being alone is better than being next to someone and feeling alone.

I keep hearing about a spiritual awakening, but I feel what we need instead, is a human one. It would be wonderful and empowering to become free from the disillusionment and nonsense being sold to us from gurus for centuries.

The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.

Map out lofty goals… include reasonable checkpoints along the way... refine, improve, and enhance your behavior in alignment with your goals…. that is the dynamic of true leadership and the formula for success.

It seems so simple now, but it took me a long time to figure out that happiness is experienced when we finally give ourselves permission to let go of the things that make us sad.

Just because you're with someone, doesn't mean you're not alone.

As jealousy entered, trust left... and their dream of a relationship began to wither into a nightmare... a nightmare in which love just wasn't enough.

I'm glad I didn't meet you when I was younger. I wouldn’t have had the wisdom to appreciate and cherish you for the gift you are in my life.

Why let go of yesterday? Because yesterday has already let go of you.

Outdated ideas inevitably lead to outdated behaviors. When ignorance and hate enter the room, progress makes its exit.

Sometimes not getting what you want is God's greatest blessing.

Some people will try to talk you out of chasing your goals; not because they think you’ll fail, but because they are scared you’ll succeed.

Never again will I underestimate the greatness inside of me just because of the hate and limited thinking inside of others.

Let’s agree to be honest from the start. I would rather feel the disappointment that comes with the realization that we are incompatible than to feel the pain and betrayal that comes with finding out that you're full of crap.

How do I shape my reality? I use wisdom and strategy to shift the possible to the probable... Then, effort and consistency will bridge the probable to the inevitable. Success is a behavior... I make sure my mindset and actions are working in alignment.

You want a great life? Well, greatness is on the other side of that f***ing wall... don't just go over it, go through it! What are you waiting for?

Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfill your purpose.

Religion is the subjective experience. Science is the objective reality. To argue either is a ridiculous waste of time and energy.

Emotional self-defense...Those who care so much, maybe too much, know that it takes wisdom and courage to sometimes say, “no” to others.

Make the choice to embrace this day. Do not let your TODAY be stolen by the ghost of yesterday or the "To-Do" list of tomorrow! It’s inspiring to see all the wonderfully amazing things that can happen in a day in which you participate.

My life was forever changed the day I realized there was a big difference between having a dream and chasing it.

Bitterness and resentment are a bottomless well. They can only be healed by the phenomenon of someone else's sorrow rising to your level of pain... it never happens - save yourself endless hurt.

Being in a relationship doesn’t entitle you to anything. You don’t get what you expect, you get what you create.

Resolutions are most often empty promises for those who have an abundance of dreams, but refuse to wake up and live them.

This life is for loving, sharing, learning, smiling, caring, forgiving, laughing, hugging, helping, dancing, wondering, healing, and even more loving. I choose to live life this way. I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, 'aw shit, he's up!