Quotes from Steve Pavlina

I got screwed over in some bad business deals, but as long as I focused on those past problems, I couldn't move forward. I had to let all of that go and forgive everyone and everything first.

If you don't take the time to get really clear about exactly what it is you're trying to accomplish, then you're forever doomed to spend your life achieving the goals of those who do.

For good or ill, your habits will make or break you.

The most intelligent thing you can possibly do with your life is to grow.

If you dislike the answers you're getting from life, try asking better questions.

The more disciplined you become, the easier life gets.

Don't die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be.

One of the secrets to success is recognizing that motivation follows action.

I want my life to have had more value than just acquiring stuff and living comfortably. I may die rich, or I may die broke. But I won't die with my music still in me.

If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there's a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.

Side effect of overemphasizing the importance of personal security in your life is that it can cause you to live reactively.

The stuff that?s most important to me in life can?t be bought ? it can only be earned.

If you try to impress an alarm clock, it will simply tell you the time.

Thoughts are like seeds. If you want different results in life, you have to figure out which thoughts are capable of growing those results and which aren't.

So act boldly, as if it's impossible to fail. If you keep adding fuel to your desire, you will reach the point of knowing that you'll never quit, and ultimate success will be nothing more than a matter of time.

Willpower is a concentration of force. You gather up all your energy and make a massive thrust forward.

Confidence is a feeling of certainty, a natural inner resource that can be summoned whenever you want it.

Passion requires focused direction, and that direction must come from three other areas: your purpose, your talents, and your needs.

I believe the ultimate goal of living and refining your values is to identify and achieve congruence with universal principles.

If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.

Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.

Courage is the dividing line between weakness and strength of character.

Courage is the gateway in the sense that you must first learn to face down your fears, even as they still appear real to you.

One of my core beliefs is that belief itself is a choice that can be made of our own free will.