Top 90 Steve Pavlina Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The momentum of continuous action fuels motivation, while procrastination kills motivation.”

— Steve Pavlina

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2. “When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn’t an option. It’s a necessity.”

— Steve Pavlina

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3. “Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow.”

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4. “One of the secrets to success is recognizing that motivation follows action.”

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5. “The more disciplined you become, the easier life gets.”

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6. “Motivation starts the race, but self-discipline ultimately crosses the finish line.”

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7. “The only thing stopping you is fear, and the only thing that will get you past it is courage. What you do with your life isn’t up to your parents, your boss, or your spouse. It’s up to you and you alone.”

— Steve Pavlina

8. “I learned that accepting others and accepting myself are two sides of the same coin; you can’t love and accept yourself without doing the same for others.”

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9. “Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.”

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10. “You must give before you can get.”

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11. “When in doubt, act boldly, as if it were impossible to fail. In essence it is.”

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12. “People often overestimate what they can reasonably achieve in a year. But they vastly underestimate what they can achieve in 5 years.”

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13. “If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.”

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14. “Realize that you earn income by providing value – not time – so find a way to provide your best value to others, and charge a fair price for it.”

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15. “If you want to experience abundance, then don’t choose a path that ensures scarcity or limitation. Choose a path that has a shot of leading to prosperity. Say no to non-prosperous choices like a job with a fixed paycheck.”

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16. “Negative feelings mean you’re going the wrong way.”

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17. “I think the best friendships are those that can stand the test of time, where the friendship is based more on who you are than on what you do or what you have.”

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18. “Willpower is a concentration of force. You gather up all your energy and make a massive thrust forward.”

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19. “Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be.”

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20. “It’s been said that the first hour is the rudder of the day. I’ve found this to be very true in my own life. If I’m lazy or haphazard in my actions during the first hour after I wake up, I tend to have a fairly lazy and unfocused day.”

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21. “Passion requires focused direction, and that direction must come from three other areas: your purpose, your talents, and your needs.”

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22. “Planning allows you to mentally create a model of your future.”

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23. “Discipline is like a muscle. The more you build it, the more you can rely on it.”

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24. “Saying no isn’t easy, but it’s a required skill if you wish to have any degree of focus in your life. If you say yes too often, you’ll likely fall into the common trap of saying yes to the good while simultaneously saying no to the best.”

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25. “Our beliefs act as lenses. These lenses can help us see things we can’t otherwise see, but they can also block us from seeing parts of reality.”

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26. “Hard work pays off. When someone tells you otherwise, beware the sales pitch for something “fast and easy” that’s about to come next. The greater your capacity for hard work, the more rewards fall within your grasp. The deeper you can dig, the more treasure you can potentially find.”

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27. “One of the secrets to success is recognizing that motivation follows action. The momentum of continuous action fuels motivation, while procrastination kills motivation. So act boldly, as if it’s impossible to fail. If you keep adding fuel to your desire, you will reach the point of knowing that you’ll never quit, and ultimate success will be nothing more than a matter of time.”

— Steve Pavlina

28. “For good or ill, your habits will make or break you.”

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29. “One of my core beliefs is that belief itself is a choice that can be made of our own free will.”

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30. “If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.”

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31. “When you reach the point of becoming independent of external events, you’re truly free.”

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32. “You must assume 100% responsibility for your financial life. If you’re going to improve your situation, you have to put the full burden of doing so squarely on your own shoulders. First and foremost, you must hold yourself responsible.”

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33. “Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast.”

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34. “You can move beyond the ego’s perspective and see reality from the perspective of a higher consciousness.”

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35. “When you discipline yourself to do what is hard, you gain access to a realm of results that are denied everyone else. The willingness to do what is difficult is like having a key to a special private treasure room.”

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36. “If you aren’t working on your goals, you aren’t working. You’re just wasting time.”

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37. “Passion and purpose go hand in hand. When you discover your purpose, you will normally find it’s something you’re tremendously passionate about.”

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38. “Everyone you meet in your life – even total strangers – are already intimately connected to you. The idea that we are all separate and distinct beings is nothing but an illusion. We are all parts of a larger whole, like individual cells in a body.”

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39. “I got screwed over in some bad business deals, but as long as I focused on those past problems, I couldn’t move forward. I had to let all of that go and forgive everyone and everything first.”

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40. “I believe the ultimate goal of living and refining your values is to identify and achieve congruence with universal principles.”

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41. “Achieving meaningful goals requires that you commit your entire ass, not just one cheek.”

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42. “We primarily grow as human beings by discovering new truths about ourselves and our reality.”

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43. “In reading the biographies of very successful men and women, one theme frequently surfaces: such people have a strong bias for action. Those who achieve high levels of success in some areas of life tend to take a LOT more action than those who settle for average or below average results.”

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44. “If you dislike the answers you’re getting from life, try asking better questions.”

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45. “Risk the stuff. It’s worthless anyway. But don’t make the insane choice of sacrificing your happiness for stuff.”

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46. “Any relationships that would reject you for being true to yourself are – by definition – abusive relationships. You’ll be much better off when you let them go.”

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47. “Replace “Have to” with “Want to.””

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48. “One of the fundamental choices you face in every encounter is the choice to approach or avoid.”

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49. “If you really believe something, you will act in accordance with that belief – always. If you believe in gravity, you will never attempt to defy it. If you claim to hold a belief but act incongruently, then you don’t actually believe it. You’re only kidding yourself. Casual faith isn’t.”

— Steve Pavlina

50. “If you try to impress an alarm clock, it will simply tell you the time.”

— Steve Pavlina