Steve Maraboli Quotes

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.

The process of discovering your greatest self is of refinement, not adding. The best way to reconnect with your freedom is to look at the rules you have that govern and hinder it.

Apathy is a trap. There is no challenge... so there is no reward. Remember, there is always free cheese in a mousetrap.

(Sometimes it seems that haters are just fans who are in denial.)

I put down my phone... Hugged her from behind… Kissed the back of her neck... Our fingers entwined… Bliss…

Pay attention to the behavior of the most successful people.

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.

Sometimes the most painful lessons are delivered by someone masquerading as a soul mate.

It took me a long time and a lot of heartache to realize that just because you love someone, doesn’t mean they deserve it.

I have found that as your wisdom and maturity develop, the number of other people you blame for your own circumstances shrinks.

Pay attention! At all moments of the day you are either leading or being led.

Life has a way of answering questions you didn't even ask.

Sometimes it's the person giving you the medicine who's making you sick.

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.

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.

Selfish people tend to only be good to themselves... then are surprised when they are alone.

Selfish people tend to only be good to themselves… then are surprised when they are alone.

Some people seem to have a black belt in selfishness... ninja narcissists with no regard to how they impact those around them… but at the same time, a master at the art of playing victim.

Sometimes you think you're helping someone up, but they're actually pulling you down. This is the painful dynamic of dealing with someone who is incurably selfish.

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 used to worry about the labels others placed on me… until I realized my limitations weren’t coming from their labels, but from my own.

The argument could be made that the word hero is overused. I do not think, however, that this is the case when referring to teachers.

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.

Don’t worry about the haters… They are just angry because the truth you speak contradicts the lie they live.

The difference between your crazy and my crazy is that you don't think you're crazy.

Be more than a father, be a dad. Be more than a figure, be an example.

You are my beautiful forever... a connection so deep that even an eternity doesn't seem long enough to spend with you.

Haters never seem to realize that jealousy is an infinite torture to which you condemn yourself.

Most haters are stuck in a poisonous mental prison of jealousy and self-doubt that blinds them to their own potentiality.

Be the type of friend you would like to have.

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 driven with purpose. Be relentless in your alignment with excellence. Pay no mind to the disimpassioned impotent haters.

Be a reflection of excellence.

When you're crying, your tears may be watering the seeds of your come-back.

Breakups can be sad, but sometimes tears are the price we pay for a freedom we need.

A broken heart bleeds tears.

Messy" is a word we use to explain a conflict with an expectation we had. Eliminate the expectation, and you eliminate the "messy".

Your life is a reflection… you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE. You gotta BE it to SEE it.

Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossom...but only if you plant the seeds.

Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossom, but only if you plant the seeds.

Excuses, criticisms, and superstitions are vitamins for haters, but poison for the successful. Rise above!

Those with a perpetual victim mindset tend to create the situations from which they suffer.

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.

Stop validating your victim mentality. Shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve.

You would free yourself from so much stress and drama if you just understood and embraced the truth that you are enough.

The path to freedom is illuminated by the bridges you have burned, adorned by the ties you have cut, and cleared by the drama you have left behind. Let go. Be free.

Free yourself from the people who cause you drama and poison your soul. You know who they are... The first ones you thought of when you read this. They have to go.

Letting go is never easy. There is no short-cut or trick to it. You must be committed enough to your future to let go of your past. It's not easy and it's likely to hurt, but it is for the best.

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

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.