Top 500 Steve Maraboli Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “What do you think will be more effective when it comes to succeeding, believing you can or KNOWING you will? Let today be the last day you took timid steps of belief and start taking confident steps of purpose-driven knowing!”

— Steve Maraboli

452. “Some people feed your ego, but starve your soul.”

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453. “What are you willing to have left undone in your life? Don’t let yourself be another example of a life gambled but not lived. Do not waste another day! If not now, when?”

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454. “Fear waters the weeds of regret.”

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455. “Call me a ‘hopeless romantic’? I’m a romantic, but I’m not hopeless. I know there are good people out there; and that at least one of them is right for me. I won’t let you convince me to settle for less.”

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456. “Although initially only few in numbers, it seems my gray hairs have launched an effective peer-pressure campaign intended to convert the others.”

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457. “I love that we get a new day... A new opportunity to move our lives in a positive direction... Let’s be unencumbered by yesterday’s nonsense... a fresh start... Take a deep breath, smile, and start again.”

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458. “You‘ve been given the innate power to shape your life.”

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459. “Cutting out drama... Healthy mind and body choices... Intent followed by action... Keeping real friends and letting go of the pretends... Livin’ clean for Twenty Seventeen!”

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460. “Mindset fuels behavior... Great lives, great relationships, great businesses, and great love stories are cultivated from within.”

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461. “I always thought they were a God-send; and they were... But then again, so was the Great Flood.”

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462. “If you’re not chasing your dreams, you’re still sleeping. WAKE UP! Don’t throw away another day. GO GET IT!”

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463. “Are you healed or just distracted? Don’t confuse the two.”

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464. “Don’t be so quick to count out the teenagers. Some of the world’s greatest changes, brilliant poetry, and innovations have come from the teenage mind.”

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465. “We can’t continuously be a society of well-wishers. We must take action to bring those wishes to fruition.”

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466. “The difference between your crazy and my crazy is that you don’t think you’re crazy.”

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467. “At every given moment we are absolutely perfect for what is required for our journey.”

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468. “What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.”

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469. “Understanding the beauty of our humanity unlocks the power of our spirituality.”

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470. “If your salvation was dependent on your ability to read and understand scripture, Jesus would have been an author.”

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471. “The process of discovering your fearless self is of refinement, not adding. The best way to reconnect with your freedom is to look at the rules you have that govern your freedom.”

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472. “Through my choices and actions, I have learned the most effective way of speaking to God is without saying a word.”

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473. “I wish the pain of betrayal was as easy to ignore as the red flags that forewarned of it.”

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474. “Sometimes we just need to look at something beautiful to refresh our souls. Shout-out to the places and people who enliven our spirits. Thank you.”

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475. “Live life with a purpose and live it full out.”

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476. “So grateful for those who truly love me... they hear everything I don’t say.”

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477. “Kindness is free... and it’s what the world needs most. Cheer for others, encourage the people around you, and help children believe in themselves. Be a positive influence in this world. We need you.”

— Steve Maraboli

478. “Today I will take the opportunity to do unanticipated good.”

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479. “There’s a rare and beautiful kind of intimacy that sparks when someone understands your mind.”

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480. “When I stop eating certain things, I feel so much better. I notice the same when I stop dealing with certain people.”

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481. “When someone feels they have the power to do whatever they want, their behavior will eliminate any question of who they are.”

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482. “Having been both the perpetrator and the victim of poisonous behavior, I’m always skeptical of a person trying really hard to negatively sway my opinion of someone. Also, don’t be fooled... If they gossip to you, they’ll gossip about you.”

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483. “Pretending not to be hurt isn’t healing. If you want to HEAL from it, you have to DEAL with it.”

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484. “Why do we place so much weight on being desired? Desire requires the least of our primal abilities. Think of the ebb and flow of all the things we desire. I want to be respected, appreciated, understood, and valued. That requires depth. That requires perspective. That requires conscious engagement. That requires strength.”

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485. “I loved them so much that I used to drive myself crazy trying to figure out why they were hurting... Why they betrayed me so easily... What was happening in their life that would lead them to treat me so abusively... Then, in a moment of clarity, I realized I’m not the “Narcissist Whisperer” and freed myself from that toxic behavior.”

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486. “I’m so grateful for those who never gave up on me... Those who spoke TO me instead of ABOUT me... Those who showed me the LOVE I wouldn’t show myself.”

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487. “Gossip is zombie-speak. You never hear it from people who are alive inside.”

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488. “Life’s rainy days... They bring out the rainbows, but they also bring out the worms. Pay attention to who’s who and what’s what.”

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489. “Emotional self-defense is an act of WISDOM. Building personal boundaries is an act of STRENGTH. Anyone who tells you differently is often the reason we need both.”

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490. “I realized that I had slowly let them get comfortable disrespecting me. I had to put up boundaries for emotional self-defense. There comes a time when Givers must protect themselves because Takers have no interest in protecting you.”

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491. “If I can erase your opinion by turning off wifi you don’t have that much power over me.”

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492. “As jealousy entered, trust left... and their dream of a relationship began to wither into a nightmare... a nightmare in which love just wasn’t enough.”

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493. “There are many paths to a fairytale ending... Blocking, unfollowing, muting, and unfriending also lead to “Happily ever after.”

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494. “Beaches are God’s poetry.”

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495. “Without action to back them, your affirmations become the soundtrack of your personal imprisonment; the creed of your stagnancy.”

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496. “A quiet cozy night... Just us... I wish I knew then, but I’m grateful I know now... It’s simply everything in life.”

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497. “The mountain is never as big as it appears. You’re never as small as you believe.”

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498. “No “normal” people find themselves in the history books... No “normal” people change the world. So get comfortable being “weird” and embrace the loneliness of unapologetic determination.”

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499. “You don’t realize it at the time, but some of life’s roadblocks, detours, and rejections are answered prayers.”

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500. “Healthy Relationships... Don’t let outside circumstances diminish your inner fire. Adapt, adjust, and keep the romance alive.”

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