Top 40 Amy Morin Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Loneliness is about perceiving that no one is there for you. But solitude is about making a choice to be alone with your thoughts.”

— Amy Morin

2. “Being mentally strong isn’t about acting tough. You don’t have to become a robot or appear to have a tough exterior when you’re mentally strong. Instead, it’s about acting according to your values.”

— Amy Morin

3. “Developing mental strength is about improving your ability to regulate your emotions, manage your thoughts, and behave in a positive manner, despite your circumstances.”

— Amy Morin

4. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. – MAYA ANGELOU.”

— Amy Morin

5. “Retaining your power is about being confident in who you are and the choices you make, despite the people around you and the circumstances you’re in.”

— Amy Morin

6. “Good habits are important, but it’s often our bad habits that prevent us from reaching our full potential. You can have all the good habits in the world, but if you keep doing the bad habits alongside the good ones, you’ll struggle to reach your goals. Think of it this way: you’re only as good as your worst habits.”

— Amy Morin

7. “When you stop trying to control every aspect of your life, you’ll have more time and energy to devote to things you can control.”

— Amy Morin

8. “Learning from each mistake requires self-awareness and humility, but it can be one of the biggest keys to reaching your full potential.”

— Amy Morin

9. “Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. – NELSON MANDELA.”

— Amy Morin

10. “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. – JOHN POWELL.”

— Amy Morin

11. “You do not need to pay attention to those voices within you that create pain, or make you feel less competent, smart or able. – Sanaya Roman.”

— Amy Morin

12. “Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. – NAPOLEON HILL.”

— Amy Morin

13. “There’s a big difference between privacy and secrecy. Privacy is voluntary. Secrecy isn’t.”

— Amy Morin

14. “Success won’t find you. You have to pursue it. Stepping into the unknown to take carefully calculated risks can help you reach your dreams and fulfill your goals.”

— Amy Morin

15. “Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality. – JOHN GARDNER.”

— Amy Morin

16. “We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present. – MARIANNE WILLIAMSON.”

— Amy Morin

17. “Bad habits are like heavy weights that you drag around as you go about your day. They’ll slow you down, tire you out, and frustrate you. Despite your hard work and talent, you’ll struggle to reach your full potential when you’ve got certain thoughts, behaviors, and feelings holding you back.”

— Amy Morin

18. “Positive change leads to increased motivation and increased motivation leads to more positive change. Embracing.”

— Amy Morin

19. “Each time you avoid saying no to something you really don’t want, you give away your power.”

— Amy Morin

20. “Reacting to others and then blaming them for the way you handled yourself.”

— Amy Morin

21. “Just because it’s a popular choice doesn’t mean it’s the right choice.”

— Amy Morin

22. “We base our decisions on emotion instead of logic. We incorrectly assume there’s a direct correlation between our fear level and the risk level. But often, our emotions are just not rational. If we truly understood how to calculate risk, we’d know which risks were worth taking and we’d be a lot less fearful about taking them. WE.”

— Amy Morin

23. “When you have a strong need to control things, you’ll be less likely to invite change into your life because there aren’t any guarantees of a positive outcome. When you choose to give up your need to control everything, you’ll have increased confidence in your ability to handle new opportunities.”

— Amy Morin

24. “We make our best decisions in life when we balance our emotions with rational thinking. Stop and think for a minute about how you behave when you’re really angry. It’s likely that you’ve said and done some things that you regretted later, because you were basing your actions on your emotions, not logic. But making choices based on rational thinking alone also doesn’t make for good decisions. We are human beings, not robots. Our hearts and our heads need to work together to control our bodies.”

— Amy Morin

25. “Anger, shame, and guilt can run your life if you’re not careful. Letting go of those emotions helps you to be in charge of your life.”

— Amy Morin

26. “Mother Teresa said, “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”

— Amy Morin

27. “Think of it this way: you’re only as good as your worst habits.”

— Amy Morin

28. “Refusing to dwell on the past doesn’t mean you pretend the past didn’t happen. In fact, it often means embracing and accepting your experiences so you can live in the present. Doing so frees up your mental energy and allows you to plan for your future based on who you want to become, not who you used to be. Anger, shame, and guilt can run your life if you’re not careful. Letting go of those emotions helps you to be in charge of your life.”

— Amy Morin

29. “We work hard to do the things that we think will make us better, but we forget to focus on the things that might be sabotaging our efforts. Avoiding.”

— Amy Morin

30. “Grit is a better predictor of success than IQ. Clearly, not everyone with a high IQ reaches a high level of achievement. In fact, a person’s IQ isn’t a very good predictor of whether he or she will become successful. Grit, defined as perseverance and passion for long-term goals, has been shown to be a much more accurate predictor of achievement than IQ.”

— Amy Morin

31. “Emotions can be contagious. If.”

— Amy Morin

32. “We make our best decisions in life when we balance our emotions with rational thinking.”

— Amy Morin

33. “Giving other people the power to control how you think, feel, and behave makes it impossible to be mentally strong.”

— Amy Morin

34. “Rejection means you’re reaching for something bigger and better. It says you’re stepping outside of your comfort zone and stretching yourself to see how far you can go.”

— Amy Morin

35. “Almost every situation has a silver lining. Ask any kid what the best part about having divorced parents is and most of them will say, “I get more presents at Christmas!” Obviously, there isn’t much good that arises from divorce, but getting twice as many presents is one small aspect of divorce that some kids rather enjoy.”

— Amy Morin

36. “Each second you spend commiserating with coworkers about how unfair your boss is, you are giving your boss more power.”

— Amy Morin

37. “Angry people may choose to offer harsh criticism quite regularly just because it relieves their stress.”

— Amy Morin

38. “When you learn to let go of the details you can’t control, the amount of time and energy you’ll be able to devote to the things you can control will give you the ability to accomplish incredible feats.”

— Amy Morin

39. “If you want to be successful at reaching your goals, you need to define your path, not just do what other people want you to do.”

— Amy Morin

40. “If you want to avoid repeating a mistake, spend some time studying it. Set any negative feelings you might have aside, acknowledge the factors that led up to your misstep, and learn from it.”

— Amy Morin

41. “There was no ignoring it or pushing it away. I had to experience the pain while also proactively helping myself heal.”

— Amy Morin

42. “You can’t escape misfortune in life. But you can change how you respond to it.”

— Amy Morin

43. “Most of us wrongly assume that people-pleasing behavior proves we’re generous. But when you think about it, always trying to please people isn’t a selfless act. It’s actually quite self-centered. It assumes that everyone cares about your every move. It also assumes you think you have the power to control how other people feel.”

— Amy Morin

44. “Sometimes, you’re better off accepting that self-doubt is part of the process. Rather than waste your energy trying to force yourself to feel confident, move forward. Use your uncertainty to fuel your effort, and you may increase your chances of success.”

— Amy Morin

45. “Not every person that is unkind to each other is morally bankrupt or mentally ill, as we assume trolls are. Hurt people will hurt people.”

— Amy Morin

46. “The emphasis on achievement also plays into self-doubt. It sounds inspiring to tell girls that they can be anything they want, but unless we tell them how to deal with mistakes, failures, and setbacks, we’re not giving them the skills they need to succeed.”

— Amy Morin

47. “All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone. – BLAISE PASCAL.”

— Amy Morin

48. “Simply reminding yourself that you have a choice in everything you do, think, and feel can be very freeing.”

— Amy Morin

49. “Frederick Douglass once said, “It’s easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

— Amy Morin