Steve Maraboli Quotes

Change is the parent of progress.

~ Steve Maraboli

Today stretches ahead of you waiting to be shaped. You are the sculptor who gets to do the shaping. What today will be like is up to you.

~ Steve Maraboli

How would your life be different if...You were conscious about the food you ate, the people you surround yourself with, and the media you watch, listen to, or read? Let today be the day...You pay attention to what you feed your mind, your body, and your life. Create a nourishing environment conducive to your growth and well-being today.

~ Steve Maraboli

Sometimes you're drowning yourself in your own words.

~ Steve Maraboli

Never confuse someone else's inability to do something with its inability to be done.

~ Steve Maraboli

Live life with a purpose and live it full out.

~ Steve Maraboli

Do not compromise yourself and put your goodness in the same impermanent category as whatever circumstance happening. Be the best you in every circumstance.

~ Steve Maraboli

Don't be one of those who don't want others to be empowered. Share information. Try to make the next person, smarter.

~ Steve Maraboli

We are mathematical equations where your life is the sum of all choices you've made until now. The good news is you can change the equation so that you start making a difference in your life.

~ Steve Maraboli

How would your life be different if...you began each day by thanking someone who has helped you? Let today be the day...You make it a point to show your gratitude to others. Send a letter or card, make a call, send a text or email, tell them in person...do whatever you have to do to let them know you appreciate them.

~ Steve Maraboli

Let today be the day that you become committed in being, in doing, in getting, achieving, in experiencing. Let today be the day that you are committed to being the change you wish to see and living the life you wish to live.

~ Steve Maraboli

With one kind gesture you can change a life. One person at a time you can change the world. One day at a time we can change everything.

~ Steve Maraboli

The future is greatly different than your life now, the actions that you take must also be greatly different. You cannot do the same thing and get something different.

~ Steve Maraboli

Fear has the role we give it. We are able to empower or poison ourselves to whatever degree we want. This is the beauty of our design.

~ Steve Maraboli

The world is my church. My actions are my prayer. My behavior is my creed.

~ Steve Maraboli

Today, you have the opportunity to transcend from a disempowered mindset of existence to an empowered reality of purpose-driven living. Today is a new day that has been handed to you for shaping. You have the tools, now get out there and create a masterpiece.

~ Steve Maraboli

Stop allowing your outdated ideas to hinder your progress. How would your life be different if you became open to new information that can refine, improve, enhance your way of thinking, and empower your way of living?

~ Steve Maraboli

How would your life be different if...You didn’t wait for someone else to fix a problem or social issue? Let today be the day...You take up a cause that you feel in your heart and give your time and efforts towards that cause.

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The way you live your day is a sentence in the story of your life. Each day you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point.

~ Steve Maraboli

Acceptance makes an incredible fertile soil for the seeds of change.

~ Steve Maraboli

Each day is a brand new episode of your life. If nothing is changing, you're watching reruns. Mindset matters... If you want something different, DO something different. Same crap, different day doesn't describe the day; it describes your attitude towards it.

~ Steve Maraboli

Your fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival.

~ Steve Maraboli

I don't have time, energy, or interest in hating the haters; I'm too busy loving the lovers.

~ Steve Maraboli

Although initially only few in numbers, it seems my gray hairs have launched an effective peer-pressure campaign intended to convert the others.

~ Steve Maraboli

If the self-help books worked, it would be a shrinking industry not a growing one.

~ Steve Maraboli

Understanding the beauty of our humanity unlocks the power of our spirituality.

~ Steve Maraboli

I feel keeping a promise to yourself is a direct reflection of the love you have for yourself. I used to make promises to myself and find them easy to break. Today, I love myself enough to not only make a promise to myself, but I love myself enough to keep that promise

~ Steve Maraboli

You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life!

~ Steve Maraboli

Never question the power of one! Throughout history it has been the actions of only one person who has in inspired the movement of change.

~ Steve Maraboli

Don’t try to fit me in a box… My life is not one dimensional. I’m the summer breeze and the hurricane… I’m the serene lake and the raging ocean… I’m the gentle poet and the rough warrior… I can build and I can destroy... I can romance and I can ravage... I can be wise and I can be silly... I can and WILL be everything that the length, depth, and breadth of life will allow... KNOW THIS! Your labels don’t limit me… they limit your experience of me. Don’t confuse the two.

~ Steve Maraboli

For me, the most interesting people seem to have the bumpiest pasts. I prefer to connect with someone who has experienced the struggles, battles, and casualties of life’s journey. There is beauty, wisdom, and truth to be found in the scars.

~ Steve Maraboli

I will not play it safe! I want to experience the length, depth, and breadth of life. I'm not just here for the victories... I'm here for the scars.

~ Steve Maraboli

I will not play it safe!I want to experience the length, depth, and breadth of life. I'm not just here for the victories... I'm here for the scars.

~ Steve Maraboli

I’m not going to tear you down… If you’re bad-mouthing me, you’re already down.

~ Steve Maraboli

Products come with a WARNING label that reveals what they are made of. People come with one too, it is found in their actions.

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There are some people who will surprise you with their perseverance... People who survive through the tears... Strong spirits who prove you wrong if you make the mistake of betting against them.

~ Steve Maraboli

When you pursue your goals with passion, you will attract people who love you; but you’ll also attract haters. I’m okay with that; I welcome it. I don’t want to live life as a spectator. I’ve learned that if no one is cheering you on and/or booing you; it means you're not in the game.

~ Steve Maraboli

I’m just being me… Success is more than just a wish or desire, it’s a behavior. A byproduct of living this way is that I consistently draw the envy of haters while also disappointing those who have bet against me. But that’s just me… Unapologetically driven.

~ Steve Maraboli

What was my path to success? Well, there were some steps forward, some back, some to the side... maybe it wasn't a path, but more of a dance.

~ Steve Maraboli

Get out of your own way... What we call 'lack of willpower' is actually just losing an argument with an outdated version of yourself.

~ Steve Maraboli