Steve Maraboli Quotes

If you want drama, settle for the one who will change your relationship status. If you want love, wait for the one who will change your life.

~ Steve Maraboli

Sometimes the comfort of being in a relationship lulls you into mundane complacency, you become irrelevant in each other’s lives. We call this phenomenon 'growing apart'.

~ Steve Maraboli

Meeting you was not the first day of the rest of my life, it was the first day of the BEST of my life.

~ Steve Maraboli

God doesn’t care how well you can preach about forgiveness… what He looks at is your behavior when presented the opportunity to practice it.

~ Steve Maraboli

Forgiveness: It’s not because they deserve it, it’s because you do. Sometimes forgiveness is about loving yourself enough to move on.

~ Steve Maraboli

If forgiveness is medicine for the soul, then gratitude is vitamins.

~ Steve Maraboli

Love moves in sync with the cadence of forgiveness, sings in tune with the melody of acceptance, and dances in rhythm with the music of companionship.

~ Steve Maraboli

Most people have an abundance of dreams, but lack the courage to follow them. Help them find that courage by inspiring them with yours.

~ Steve Maraboli

Anyone who ever bet against you was wrong. Don’t let their opinion blind you from your reality. You were not meant to live their life, LIVE yours!

~ Steve Maraboli

The people who are happy for your happiness and sad for your sadness... keep them around.

~ Steve Maraboli

Don’t let your idea of God be limited to the imagination of others. Don’t let them define your God and don’t let them tell you how to express your faith.

~ Steve Maraboli

If I do not personify God, you call me an atheist. But I do not personify God because I refuse to limit God to the boundaries of my imagination... or yours.

~ Steve Maraboli

Just because I don't believe in YOUR God doesn't mean I don't believe in God. I just choose not to be bound by the limits of your imagination or those of your ancestors.

~ Steve Maraboli

One of life's challenging realizations is that sometimes you outgrow your friends.

~ Steve Maraboli

Through the twist and turns of life, I find myself so grateful for my friends. Even though sometimes the days can seem so dark, and my heart can feel so hurt, I am never alone; my friends are beside me.

~ Steve Maraboli

Nothing is so unpopular as positive change amongst friends. It seems when you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change… But only after trying their hardest to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER let anyone dilute your power to change!

~ Steve Maraboli

The people in my circle? Those who make me feel blessed, not stressed.

~ Steve Maraboli

Friendship is a beautiful blessing. You may love your friends and they may love you, but that doesn’t mean they should have unexamined influence in all areas of your life.

~ Steve Maraboli

By surrounding yourself with people who are positive, caring, intelligent, loving, and open-minded, you create a personal environment that is conducive to your emotional and personal growth. By surrounding yourself with the opposite, you create a personal environment that is conducive to the opposite. Choose accordingly.

~ Steve Maraboli

Be mindful of your social environment. By nature, the group you hang-out with will develop a common behavior and mindset. This behavior usually gravitates towards the lowest common denominator. Choose your group wisely.

~ Steve Maraboli

Sometimes there are stormy moments in your life when your friends do more than just walk with you, they become angels that carry you and protect you with their wings.

~ Steve Maraboli

Make sure your business is creating a service experience so good that it demands loyalty.

~ Steve Maraboli

Many companies expect loyal customers without providing loyal service. This has been the visionary failure of countless corporations.

~ Steve Maraboli

When you put yourself in the customer’s shoes and begin your dialog from there, an immediate connection develops that stems beyond basic commerce and encourages loyalty.

~ Steve Maraboli

As a business leader you have to ask yourself, “Am I creating a consumer environment that is conducive to loyalty?” If the answer is no, FIX IT!

~ Steve Maraboli

The efforts of a leader will be emulated. Depending on the quality of appointed leadership, this can be medicine or poison to a living business.

~ Steve Maraboli

The most successful businesses have leaders that see the correlation between customer service and sales… not as separate departments, but as complimentary components for growth.

~ Steve Maraboli

The greatest way to ensure your company’s failure is to appoint leaders who see a divide between themselves and the team, who are more fixated on their elevated role than on the act of leading.

~ Steve Maraboli

Most board meetings amount to little more than intellectual masturbation. They are ideas that cause thrills, chills, and satisfaction, but there is no impregnation. Nothing is ever born of them. It’s intellectual masturbation.

~ Steve Maraboli

A sense of entitlement is a cancerous thought process that is void of gratitude and can be deadly to our relationships.

~ Steve Maraboli

Everyone wants to look great in the summer... Don't just dream, take action!Your journey to being a summer yummer starts today.

~ Steve Maraboli

How would your life be different if you decided to live your dream instead of holding onto your nightmare? Let today be the day you free yourself from the fears that are holding you back and act upon the dream you've always had.

~ Steve Maraboli

The dream is yours… why are you asking others to validate or nourish it? Your journey must be self-propelled. It must be fueled from within.

~ Steve Maraboli

My life was forever changed the day I realized there was a big difference between having a dream and chasing it.

~ Steve Maraboli

Dare to exhaust yourself with all the opportunities this day offers.

~ Steve Maraboli

Don't just dream of success, create a plan and act upon it! Your momentum creates the door upon which opportunity knocks.

~ Steve Maraboli

Instructions for successful living: Dream it. Plan it. Do it. Repeat.

~ Steve Maraboli

The magic that turns dreams into reality is YOU! When you are inspired by a dream, create a good plan; that turns it into a goal. Then, live your life in a way that will bring that dream, that goal, to life. The magic is you.

~ Steve Maraboli

Don't limit yourself to someone else's opinion of your capabilities. Be you. Dream, plan, execute!

~ Steve Maraboli

How much longer will you sit back and wait for your dream to spontaneously come true? Too many days, weeks, months, and years have passed! Do not be unresponsive to your own dreams. Now, set a course of action that will lead to bringing your dream into reality.

~ Steve Maraboli