Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections On Life And The Human Experience Quotes
It takes bravery to recognize where in your life you are your own poison... it takes courage to do something about it.
When I was young, I used to wish I would fit in… I’m glad I didn’t get my wish.
Many great ideas, great love stories, and great achievements are born from a healthy irrationality.
Stay away from people who gossip and spread rumors. They are choosing the path of emotional bullying and negativity.
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.
Some of the things I hated my parents for when I was younger are the same things I love my parents for now that I'm older.
It is when I struggle that I strengthen. It is when challenged to my core that I learn the depth of who I am.
You're better than the life you've settled for. RISE to the challenge of your dreams! Don't just dream it - LIVE it!
Religion is the subjective experience. Science is the objective reality. To argue either is a ridiculous waste of time and energy.
When your actions are aligned with your dreams and goals, you become the point of origin for their reality.
I used to hold grudges until I realized that most people are narcissistic and their actions are driven by an unhealthy self-interest and not maliciousness towards me.
Stop validating your victim mentality. Shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve.
There are often great lessons to be learned at the roots of stress, drama, and heartache. Don’t let the magnitude of the circumstance blind you to the value of the lesson.
Excuses, criticisms, and superstitions are vitamins for haters, but poison for the successful. Rise above!
Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossom...but only if you plant the seeds.
Your life is a reflection… you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE. You gotta BE it to SEE it.
When you're crying, your tears may be watering the seeds of your come-back.
Be driven with purpose. Be relentless in your alignment with excellence. Pay no mind to the disimpassioned impotent haters.
Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you GET for it, but what you BECOME for it.
Be the type of friend you would like to have.
Most haters are stuck in a poisonous mental prison of jealousy and self-doubt that blinds them to their own potentiality.
Be more than a father, be a dad. Be more than a figure, be an example.
Don’t lie. Life is a puzzle and we are all unique pieces. When you lie, you make it impossible to find your true place in the grand design.
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.
We must never forget that while striving to leave a better planet to our kids, it is just as important that we strive to leave better kids to our planet.
Pay attention! At all moments of the day you are either leading or being led.
Write down five character traits you admire most in your personal heroes. You now have a list of traits to emulate in your own life.
Pay attention to the behavior of the most successful people.
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.
Set a high standard on how you treat women. Whether they appreciate it or not, don’t lower your own standards of behavior.
Just because your pain is understandable, doesn't mean your behavior is acceptable.
Don't dilute yourself for any person or any reason. You are enough! Be unapologetically you.
Don't let other people's opinions distort your reality. Be true to yourself. Be bold in pursuing your dreams. Be unapologetically you!
Life is too short to waste time waiting for other people's approval on how you live it.
The volume of your voice does not increase the validity of your argument.
Don’t let psychological warfare from an advertisement campaign blind you from the truth of your beauty, possibility, worthiness, and purpose.
No Blame: The most liberating and empowering day of my life was the day I freed myself from my own self-destructive nonsense.
The victim mindset produces a delusion of fault and blame that blinds you from the simple truth of cause and effect.