Top 80 Jeff Goins Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Pivoting isn’t plan B; it’s part of the process.”

— Jeff Goins

2. “You have to choose your priorities, or they will choose you.”

— Jeff Goins

3. “We don’t fake it till we make it. We believe it till we become it.”

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4. “To master any skill, you must first choose a task; then do it over and over again until the activity becomes second nature; and finally, push through the times when you fail, exhibiting even greater focus as you repeat the action until you’ve done it right.”

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5. “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. – MICHELANGELO BUONAROTTI.”

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6. “Life is too short to do what doesn’t matter, to waste your time on things that don’t amount to much. What we all want is to know our time on earth has meant something. We can distract ourselves with pleasure for only so long before beginning to wonder what the point is. This means if we want true satisfaction, we have to rise above the pettiness of our own desires and do what is required of us. A calling comes when we embrace the pain, not avoid it.”

— Jeff Goins

7. “Multitasking is a myth. You can either create or react. But you can’t do both. Choose wisely.”

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8. “I used to think that your calling was about doing something good in this world. Now I understand it’s about becoming someone good – and letting that goodness impact the world around you.”

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9. “Freedom is a great thing, but freedom without restriction can be paralyzing.”

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10. “When you are stuck fulfilling an obligation instead of chasing a dream, you aren’t your best self. We all know that.”

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11. “Treating people with respect is the best way to earn their attention.” – SETH GODIN.”

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12. “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it. – W. C. FIELDS.”

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13. “Human beings, he argued, are not hardwired for seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. They want meaning. In spite of what we say, we don’t want happiness. It’s simply not enough to satisfy our deepest longings. We are looking for something more, something transcendent – a reason to be happy.”

— Jeff Goins

14. “Every calling is marked by a season of insignificance, a period when nothing seems to make sense. This is a time of wandering in the wilderness, when you feel alone and misunderstood. To the outsider, such a time looks like failure, as if you are grasping at air or simply wasting time. But the reality is this is the most important experience a person can have if they make the most of it.”

— Jeff Goins

15. “Answering a call will sometimes feel that way. It won’t make sense and may even open you up to rejection and criticism, but in your heart you will know it’s right. How? There will be confirmation. You will take a step, and things will happen.”

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16. “Eric Miller has always tried to steer his son in the direction of what he can do, not what he can’t.”

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17. “The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways. – ROBERT GREENE.”

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18. “Frankl learned there are three things that give meaning to life: first, a project; second, a significant relationship; and third, a redemptive view of suffering. He realized that if people, even in the bleakest of circumstances, have a job to do, something to return to tomorrow, then they have a reason to live another day.”

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19. “A calling isn’t something new and shiny. Often it’s something old and predictable, a familiar face that’s easily taken for granted, an old habit or hobby that comes back into our lives.”

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20. “If you don’t want your best work to die with you, you must train yourself to think and live differently than the ways we’ve been told artists behave. Don’t starve for your art. Help it thrive.”

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21. “When the right people advocate for your work, your success becomes more likely. Being good is necessary, but it is not sufficient. Skill is a prerequisite for creative success, but talent is only part of the equation. The rest is network.”

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22. “When you pursue a calling, you will find a community of supporters to champion you along the way. It’s not up to you where these people come from or even how to locate them.”

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23. “When we feel farthest from our purpose, we are actually already on the path, headed in the right direction.”

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24. “To be wrecked begins with an experience that pulls you out of your comfort zone and self-centeredness, whether you want it or not.”

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25. “The good life comes like most good things – unexpectedly – in moments that are fading away faster than we realize. These are the moments that take our time but don’t demand our attention. When we miss them, they’re gone. In those times especially, we would do well to slow down and be present, because we won’t get them back.”

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26. “Committing to the wrong thing is better than standing still.”

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27. “The world is broken and remains that way, in spite of our efforts to help it. This is beautiful, in a way, because it breaks us of our self-dependency. In a world that refuses to be healed, we must face the fact that we are not the heroes of our stories. It teaches us to rely on something bigger than ourselves and teaches the source of true compassion.”

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28. “Before you know what your calling is, you must believe you are called to something.”

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29. “The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money. – KARL MARX.”

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30. “We live in the age of no excuses.”

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31. “Maybe we all have the power to turn our lives into significant stories if we start to see our difficulties as opportunities.”

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32. “Sometimes, a calling is simply accepting your role in a story that is bigger than you.”

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33. “Believe you already are what you want to be. And then start acting like it.”

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34. “Take time to look back at all you’ve experienced, and listen to what your life is saying.”

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35. “The smallest moments, the ones we think are insignificant, are the ones we will cherish the most.”

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36. “When I notice myself resenting my clients and wanting to quit,” Melissa Dinwiddie said, “I realize I don’t need to quit. I just need to raise my prices. If you’re feeling resentment at all, you’re charging too little.”

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37. “The path to your dream is more about following a direction than arriving at a destination.”

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38. “As Frederick Buechner wrote, “Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world’s deep need.”

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39. “Sometimes the route to our purpose is a chaotic experience, and how we respond matters more than what happens to us.”

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40. “But if you hear the call to make your life about more than you and what you can contribute, you will have peace, not anxiety, when facing mortality.”

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41. “You already have some sense of what you’re supposed to do with your life, even if you aren’t sure what it is. The trick is to find your vocation hidden in your life.”

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42. “One way of knowing our gifting,” Jody told me, “is when something that seems easy to us doesn’t seem easy to others.”

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43. “When I started writing every day, I realized a painful truth: I can’t react and create at the same time. Neither can you.”

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44. “Let’s face it: The “genius” stuff happens in the editing process. Most successful writers go through a tedious process of drafting and shaping their content to get something worth sharing. How do they do this? They write every day. They write a thousand terrible words to find a hundred words worth using. They share their work with a close friend. They edit, tweak, and then ship. But they have to have something to start the process with. And so do you.”

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45. “Every calling encounters setbacks, and sometimes people don’t want what you have to offer, or maybe they just don’t understand it.”

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46. “In any great narrative, there is a moment when a character must decide to become more than a bystander. It’s an important moment that always seems to happen in the mind before it unfolds in real life.”

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47. “Even when others don’t understand, masters recognize their allegiance is to a higher calling than pleasing the masses.”

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48. “Sometimes failure is the best thing that can happen to you if you learn to listen to the lessons in it.”

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49. “And as we pick up our hammers and scalpels, as we sit down in front of our laptops or climb onboard the bus for another tour, as we endeavor to do meaningful work in the world, we are becoming ourselves.”

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50. “Flow is the intersection of what you are good at and what challenges you – where difficulty and competency meet. When your competency exceeds the difficulty of a task, you are bored. And when the difficulty exceeds your competency, you are anxious.”

— Jeff Goins