Top 40 Steve Backley Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If you have positive energy you will always attract positive outcomes.”

— Steve Backley

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2. “Success is a decision, not a gift.”

— Steve Backley

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3. “It is action that creates motivation.”

— Steve Backley

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4. “Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.”

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5. “The first step is the most important. It is the most crucial and the most effective as it will initiate the direction you have chosen.”

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6. “Act like a champion, and then become one.”

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7. “If obstacles are large, jump higher.”

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8. “Invest your energy in the things you can control.”

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9. “Explore. Train your conscious mind and your subconscious mind to start working for you by getting those great powers to move in a new direction. Start creating your own good luck today.”

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10. “See it first in your mind, then become it.”

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11. “When you think a positive thought, you become positive.”

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12. “Share your aspirations only with those who will support you, not those who will respond with doubt or lack of interest.”

— Steve Backley

13. “You can start to change your luck today. Begin believing that you can have what you desire and superior things will arrive.”

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14. “The challenge for you is to decide not what is important, but what is most important and then focus your attention on that.”

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15. “If you are able to focus unswervingly on your goals, then all that you desire will become yours.”

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16. “There are three types of people in this world. Firstly, there are people who make things happen. Then there are people who watch things happen. Lastly, there are people who ask, what happened? Which do you want to be?”

— Steve Backley

17. “If you want to continue to be the best in the world, then you have to train and compete like you are second best in the world.”

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18. “If you remain static and wait for success to come to you it will certainly not happen.”

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19. “For many, lack of achievement is more a consequence of fear of taking a chance and getting uncomfortable.”

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20. “Trust in your own beliefs or succumb to the influence of others’.”

— Steve Backley

21. “Every time a champion makes a decision they have a chance to learn something new, regardless of the outcome.”

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22. “Look for solutions, instead of being difficult; be more thoughtful, instead of allowing anger to burn you out. Look at things from a different perspective, embrace change, look out for opportunities and you will feel much more in control.”

— Steve Backley

23. “Mix with positive-minded people as a means to tap into your unexploited potential.”

— Steve Backley

24. “The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation.”

— Steve Backley

25. “Athletes who are able to stay completely focused in pursuit of their dreams are the ones that are most likely to become champions.”

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26. “You have to create your self-belief by going to your core to find the probable reasons for the negativity in you, and then demolish them.”

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27. “It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum.”

— Steve Backley

28. “Just identify the very first physical action you need to take, and do it.”

— Steve Backley

29. “Tell me your thinking, and I’ll tell you what your life looks like.”

— Steve Backley

30. “A mind filled with negative thoughts makes you feel miserable and inadequate and will lead to failure after failure no matter how hard you try to succeed.”

— Steve Backley

31. “The only test is what you see when you look in a mirror.”

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32. “It is one thing to know what should be done, it is another to do it.”

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33. “Success is virulent. Once you get the bug then it’s in you.”

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34. “It is never about who is right or wrong, it is about what is best.”

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35. “The people and successes in your life mirror your beliefs.”

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36. “Too often, people get stuck in a state of over-thinking, the result is that they never reach a decision.”

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37. “Do you want to know what one of the secrets to achieving all of your goals is? You’ve got to be committed.”

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38. “The way forward is to stop pestering yourself for answers and let it, the creative part of your mind, come up with the solution when the time is right.”

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39. “Nothing could be any worse than having to turn to your friends, your colleagues and your loved ones and say –‘I gave up too soon’.”

— Steve Backley

40. “Compete like you cannot fail.”

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41. “Success is simply never giving in to failure – either in mind or body.”

— Steve Backley

42. “If not you, who?”

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43. “Lucky people will focus on what’s in front of them rather than scrabbling about for what they’re searching for.”

— Steve Backley