Top 50 Steve Chandler Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You can get anything you want in life, if you help enough other people get what they want. Zig Ziglar.”

— Steve Chandler

2. “The more you do, the more you can do.”

— Steve Chandler

3. “Action is the answer.”

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4. “Worry is not true thought. Worry is a misuse of the imagination.”

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5. “Absolute focus is the key to all great human achievement. Its opposite, preoccupation, is the enemy of all achievement.”

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6. “Time Warrior is much more than tips and tricks.”

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7. “Happiness comes from growth, not comfort.”

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8. “Reinvention involves growing up. Growing above and beyond the hurts and memories of the past.”

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9. “On your death bed, you will not wish you had been more comfortable, or that you had found an even easier, softer pleasure zone to hide out in. You will wish you had ventured out more. That you had spoken up more. Tried some things. Reinvented yourself one more time.”

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10. “The human spirit, like a campfire, must be lit again each day.”

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11. “Write down 10 things you would do in your life if you had absolutely no fear. Then pick one of them and do it.”

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12. “Owners focus on what they want. Victims focus on what they fear. And both positions are pure internal invention.”

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13. “Pretending you aren’t going to die is detrimental to your enjoyment of life. It is detrimental in the same way that it would be detrimental for a basketball player to pretend there was no end to the game he was playing. That player would reduce his intensity, adopt a lazy playing style, and, of course, end up not having any fun at all. Without an end, there is no game. Without being conscious of death, you can’t be fully aware of the gift of life.”

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14. “When you focus on being a happy and motivated person, that is who you will be.”

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15. “Sound when stretched is music. Movement when stretched is dance. Mind when stretched is meditation. Life when stretched is celebration. Shri Ravishankar Jee.”

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16. “The wizard didn’t give anything to the Tin Man that he didn’t already have.”

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17. “Not being excited is to have missed the whole point of life.”

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18. “A warrior takes his sword to the future. A warrior also takes his sword to all circumstances that don’t allow him to fully focus.”

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19. “I told them that if I laid a two-by-four across the room, everybody there would walk across it and not fall, because our focus would be that we were going to walk that two-by-four. But if I put that same two-by-four 10 stories high between two buildings only a few would make it, because the focus would be on falling. Focus is everything. The team that is more focused today is the team that will win this game.”

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20. “The hands-off manager is a different kind of visionary. The hands-off manager’s vision is not a vision for what the company will be in 10 years. It’s a vision that sees into the potential of his people right here and now. Your success as a hands-off manager will be directly related to your ever-increasing ability to see more in your people than they’re seeing in themselves. The next step is inviting them to your vision of them.”

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21. “The best futures get created in the present moment.”

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22. “It’s hard to stay motivated when you’re confused. When you simplify your life, it gathers focus. The more you can focus your life, the more motivated it gets.”

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23. “We either make ourselves miserable,” said the Brazilian sage Carlos Castaneda, “or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”

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24. “Management and efficiency studies in the work place tell us that one hour of uninterrupted time is worth three hours of time that is constantly interrupted.”

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25. “A major part of living a life of self-motivation is having something to wake up for in the morning – something that you are “up to” in life so that you will stay hungry.”

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26. “Albert Einstein said there comes a time in life when you must stop reading other people’s books and start writing your own.”

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27. “Achievement requires continuous feedback. And if you’re going to get the most out of your people, it’s imperative that you be the one who is the most up on what the numbers are and what they mean. Motivators.”

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28. “Responsibility is powerful when thought of in its positive sense. It is the ability to choose our responses.”

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29. “When Emerson said, “Nothing great was ever created without enthusiasm,” he wasn’t just talking about works of art, he was talking about individual lives. No one creates a great life without reconnecting to the enthusiasm experienced in childhood.”

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30. “From now on, make it a personal commitment to notice everything that pushes your buttons. Make a note of everything that inspires you. That’s your control panel. Those buttons operate your whole system of personal motivation.”

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31. “I believe that half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.”

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32. “Self-concept,” says Nathaniel Branden, “is destiny.”

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33. “How you program your mind is what will reinvent who you are.”

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34. “Keep your life creative and simple: what needs to be done now in these three minutes? That’s all you ever need to ask, and you’ll never have anything like procrastination bother you again.”

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35. “People who do “lowly” jobs with love and energy find themselves being promoted and offered other “better” jobs very quickly. Because they understand what Robert Frost meant when he said, “The way out is through.”

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36. “The Struggling coach has huge dreams that overwhelm them. The Pro coach has huge dreams, and takes tiny steps every day.”

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37. “The Pro coach knows that being uncomfortable is the only way to grow. And because they create such powerful agreements, their clients never miss or are late for a session.”

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38. “You don’t ever need more money than you have.”

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39. “Fear is overcome by doing what we fear to do. Action defeats fear, just as scissors cut paper.”

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40. “Motivation requires a calm, centered leader who is focused on one thing, and only one thing.”

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41. “The coaching profession has a problem that is two-fold: there is a low bar for entry and a high bar for success.”

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42. “The human system does not really want comfort, it wants challenge. It wants adventure.”

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43. “Try three minutes. Give your task three minutes of your time.”

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44. “Only a self-obsessed ego can be wounded. Action itself can’t be wounded. Spirit can’t be wounded.”

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45. “We start something and then we stop. When Dusan coaches his clients his recommendation is this: stop stopping.”

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46. “Tiny personality changes here and there inspire growth in us constantly. Inspiration leads to enthusiasm.”

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47. “We human beings love trying to solve things. As long as they’re not our things.”

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48. “Time Warrior gives us a revolutionary, non-linear approach for dealing with time, as bold as it is fresh and new.”

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49. “Groucho Marx once said he found television very educational. “Every time someone turns it on,” he said, “I go in the other room to read a book.”

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50. “Never let anyone come to you without coming away better and happier. Mother Teresa.”

— Steve Chandler