Top 180 Dan Millman Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.”

— Dan Millman

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2. “You don’t have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.”

— Dan Millman

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3. “There are no ordinary moments.”

— Dan Millman

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4. “Life comes at us in waves. We can’t predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf.”

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5. “So trust the process of your life unfolding, and know with certainty, through the peaks and valleys of your journey, that your soul rests safe and secure in the arms of God.”

— Dan Millman

6. “The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.”

— Dan Millman

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7. “A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does.”

— Dan Millman

8. “As a peaceful warrior, I would choose when, where and how I would behave. With that commitment, I began to live the life of a warrior.”

— Dan Millman

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9. “Be happy now, without reason – or you never will be at all.”

— Dan Millman

10. “Live with a peaceful heart; cultivate a warrior’s spirit.”

— Dan Millman

11. “Bad people don’t go to hell, they are already there.”

— Dan Millman

12. “To rid yourself of old patterns, focus all your energy not on struggling with the old, but on building the new.”

— Dan Millman

13. “If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.”

— Dan Millman

14. “The secret of change consists in concentrating one’s energy to create the new, and not to fight against the old.”

— Dan Millman

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15. “The only laws are paradox, humor and change.”

— Dan Millman

16. “Choice means giving up something you want for something else you want more.”

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17. “Life is a series of moments. The quality of attention and action that we bring to each moment determines the quality of our lives.”

— Dan Millman

18. “There is no path to Happiness. Happiness is the path. There is no path to Love. Love is the path. There is no path to Peace. Peace is the path.”

— Dan Millman

19. “There are times to let things happen, and times to make things happen. Now is that time. You will either make things happen, watch what happens, or wonder what happened.”

— Dan Millman

20. “Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness.”

— Dan Millman

21. “Aim not to win or succeed, but for excellence in the moment.”

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22. “The warrior is Here, Now.”

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23. “The warrior acts, the fool reacts.”

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24. “Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort-expanding the minimum time and energy necessary to achieve desired goals.”

— Dan Millman

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25. “Everything you need to know is within you. Listen. Feel. Trust the body’s wisdom.”

— Dan Millman

26. “Everything you’ll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.”

— Dan Millman

27. “When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start.”

— Dan Millman

28. “Find the heart of it. Make the complex simple, and you can achieve mastery.”

— Dan Millman

29. “When in haste, rest in the present. Take a deep breath and come back to here and now.”

— Dan Millman

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30. “Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.”

— Dan Millman

31. “It’s better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice.”

— Dan Millman

32. “Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.”

— Dan Millman

33. “Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not.”

— Dan Millman

34. “This moment deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.”

— Dan Millman

35. “We discover our character through decisions under pressure.”

— Dan Millman

36. “Peaceful warriors have the patience to wait until the mud settles and the water clears. They remain unmoving until the right time, so the right action arises by itself. They do not seek fulfillment, but wait with open arms to welcome all things.”

— Dan Millman

37. “Choice means saying no to one thing so you can say yes to another.”

— Dan Millman

38. “Better never begin; once begun, better finish.”

— Dan Millman

39. “When you begin your transcendental training, focusing your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warrior’s way.”

— Dan Millman

40. “Life is not suffering; it’s just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of your mind’s attachments and just go for the ride freely, no matter what happens.”

— Dan Millman

41. “You have to lose your mind in order to regain your senses.”

— Dan Millman

42. “When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish.”

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43. “Anybody can be happy when things are going well, and I’ve learned that. But when things aren’t going well it draws out the inner warrior in us to radiate that and bring whatever happiness we can to the situation.”

— Dan Millman

44. “Energy follows thought; we move toward, but not beyond, what we can imagine. What we assume, expect, or believe creates and colors our experience. By expanding our deepest beliefs about what is possible, we change our experience of life.”

— Dan Millman

45. “Faith means living with uncertainty – feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.”

— Dan Millman

46. “The hours of your life are the most valuable currency you will ever have. How will you spend them?”

— Dan Millman

47. “While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.”

— Dan Millman

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48. “A jet plane cannot mow the lawn, but it can fly to distant destinations. Don’t worry so much about what you can’t do; just do what you can as only you can do it.”

— Dan Millman

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49. “I had lost my mind and fallen into my heart.”

— Dan Millman

50. “As you manage your money, you manage your life.”

— Dan Millman