Quotes from Marie Forleo

Perfectionism at its core isn't about high standards. It's about fear. Fear of failure. Fear of looking stupid, fear of making a mistake, fear of being judged, criticized, and ridiculed. It's the fear that one simple fact might be true: You're just not good enough.

You can do whatever you set your mind to if you just roll up your sleeves, get in there, and do it. Everything is figureoutable.

If it's important enough, I'll make the time. If not, I'll make an excuse.

Nearly two decades later, I can say that the only thing that allowed me to take that leap was because a deeper, wiser part of me believed that somehow I'd be able to figure it out.

Your potential is limitless. You are unique, valuable, capable, and worthy of the dreams in your heart. Most of all, you have what it takes to transform and transcend whatever challenges you face.

Not having the best situation, but seeing the best in your situation is the key to happiness.

Clarity comes from engagement, not thought!

There's a difference between owning your choices and blaming yourself.

Don't wait until you find someone. You are someone.

In order to change ourselves, we must first believe we can.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the economy, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. Albert Ellis

Every pro starts off as an amateur. There's not one top artist, athlete, writer, scientist, architect, entrepreneur, programmer, musician, or potter who enters the field at the top of her game. To begin anything new or learn anything new means you will be a neophyte. You must go from outsider to insider. Respect that. Embrace it. Be willing to suck.

In short, here's what making is-ness your business means: engage in your life with enthusiasm exactly as it is, regardless of your likes and dislikes, your preferences, ideas, beliefs, and opinions about how things should be or could be. Unconditionally allow things to be the way they are. When you deal with what is, or your is-ness, you can then choose who you'd like to be in relationship to that.

Just because someone doesn't like what you do doesn't mean no one else will. A person's opinion is not The Truth, it's their truth.

insight without action is worthless. Taking action is the only path to change.

Opportunity cost is no joke. Every choice has a price. Everything you say yes to means you're saying no to something else. Translation? Each time you pick up your brain-draining gadget and say YES to watching another cat video, you're saying NOPE to ever reaching your biggest and most important long-term goals.

Remember that gal that gave up? Neither does anyone else. Unknown

There are two types of pain you will go through in life: the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. Discipline weighs ounces, while regret weighs tons.

It's hard to become what you don't see.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. Thomas Mann

Energetically speaking, when you are lost in your thoughts, you are a closed system that's emitting "I'm not available" vibes. You reduce the probability of meeting someone because spiritually, you're not open for business.

Make is-ness your business and meet life as it shows up—not as you prefer it to show up.

If you believed to your core that everything really is figureoutable, what would you now do? What would you create or heal or transform or transcend? Who would you become?

As David Deutsch says, "Everything that is not forbidden by laws of nature is achievable, given the right knowledge".