Steve Pavlina Quotes

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.

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.

When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn't an option. It's a necessity.

Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow.

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.

If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.

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

Passion and purpose go hand in hand. When you discover your purpose, you will normally find it's something you're tremendously passionate about.

When you reach the point of becoming independent of external events, you’re truly free.

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

Planning allows you to mentally create a model of your future.

If you aren't working on your goals, you aren't working. You're just wasting time.

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

Your beliefs about reality become your beliefs about yourself.

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

The more disciplined you become, the easier life gets.

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

It should feel genuinely good to earn income from your blog - you should be driven by a healthy ambition to succeed. If your blog provides genuine value, you fully deserve to earn income from it.

Any relationships that would reject you for being true to yourself are - by definition - abusive relationships. You'll be much better off when you let them go.

Regardless of others' reactions, do your best to stay true to yourself. Make the choices that allow you to look in the mirror and feel good about the person gazing back at you.

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

Your values are your current estimations of truth. They represent your answer to the question of how to live.

The universe cannot show you anything which you've intentionally chosen to block from your reality.

'Someday' is the day after you die.

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

Productivity = creating value and delivering it to people. All other busywork is unproductive fluff and should be minimized.

Believing that you must do something perfectly is a recipe for stress, and you'll associate that stress with the task and thus condition yourself to avoid it

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.

I think the best friendships are those that can stand the test of time, where the friendship is based more on who you are than on what you do or what you have.

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

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

You can move beyond the ego's perspective and see reality from the perspective of a higher consciousness.

We primarily grow as human beings by discovering new truths about ourselves and our reality.

Thought and action can be perceived as two different dimensions of who you are: the mental you and the physical you

Our beliefs act as lenses. These lenses can help us see things we can't otherwise see, but they can also block us from seeing parts of reality.

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.

By all means listen to other people's advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct.

Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast.

To work effectively you need uninterrupted blocks of time in which you can complete meaningful work... I've found that a minimum of 90 minutes is ideal for a single block.

Security is worthless if you have to sacrifice growth to get it

One of the fundamental choices you face in every encounter is the choice to approach or avoid.

If you want to express your creativity, then don't choose a path where someone else tells you what to do and how to do it. Choose a path where creativity is rewarded, not punished.

Risk the stuff. It's worthless anyway. But don't make the insane choice of sacrificing your happiness for stuff.

Replace "Have to" with "Want to."

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

Courageous people are still afraid, but they don't let the fear paralyze them.

To abandon a comfortable lifestyle that isn't deeply fulfilling is to abandon nothing.

Curiosity is more flexible and practical than belief.

Realize that you earn income by providing value - not time - so find a way to provide your best value to others, and charge a fair price for it.

You are too free and untamable to be labeled.