Top 90 Steve Pavlina Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Your values are your current estimations of truth. They represent your answer to the question of how to live.”

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52. “Thoughts are like seeds. If you want different results in life, you have to figure out which thoughts are capable of growing those results and which aren’t.”

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53. “Waiting for clarity is like being a sculptor staring at a piece of marble, waiting for the statue within to cast off the unneeded pieces. Do not wait for clarity to spontaneously materialize-gra b a chisel and get busy!”

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54. “If you don’t take the time to get really clear about exactly what it is you’re trying to accomplish, then you’re forever doomed to spend your life achieving the goals of those who do.”

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55. “No one on earth has lived through the exact same experiences you have, and no one thinks the exact same thoughts you do.”

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56. “Using passion as your only fuel will no more assure you of success than being in love will ensure a successful long-term relationship.”

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57. “If you want to express your creativity, then don’t choose a path where someone else tells you what to do and how to do it. Choose a path where creativity is rewarded, not punished.”

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58. “By all means listen to other people’s advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct.”

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59. “Believing that you must do something perfectly is a recipe for stress, and you’ll associate that stress with the task and thus condition yourself to avoid it.”

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60. “If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there’s a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.”

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61. “Side effect of overemphasizing the importance of personal security in your life is that it can cause you to live reactively.”

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62. “I want my life to have had more value than just acquiring stuff and living comfortably. I may die rich, or I may die broke. But I won’t die with my music still in me.”

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63. “To abandon a comfortable lifestyle that isn’t deeply fulfilling is to abandon nothing.”

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64. “I realized that my bliss and my heartbreak both point in the same direction. I follow my joy and my heartbreak simultaneously because they’re two sides of the same coin.”

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65. “Curiosity is more flexible and practical than belief.”

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66. “Our brains are fairly powerful, but our conscious minds are still extremely limited in their ability to hold onto multiple simultaneous thoughts.”

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67. “Fuzzy thinking leads to hesitancy in acting. Clear thinking makes it easier to act boldly and consistently.”

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68. “It should feel genuinely good to earn income from your blog – you should be driven by a healthy ambition to succeed. If your blog provides genuine value, you fully deserve to earn income from it.”

— Steve Pavlina

69. “It’s important to note that you don’t have to earn money from all of your interests. If you just dive in and pursue what you enjoy, you may be surprised to find out which interests help you generate income and which don’t.”

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70. “Whatever happens to me during the course of my life – physically, socially, or financially – I can always choose to focus on giving. When I’m in that state, nothing else matters. I cease to exist as a separate being and merge into an expression of divine oneness.”

— Steve Pavlina

71. “Security is worthless if you have to sacrifice growth to get it.”

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72. “People in their early 20s are invariably weird.”

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73. “Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It’s perfectly OK to want the impossible. It’s not OK to pretend that your desires don’t matter.”

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74. “The most intelligent thing you can possibly do with your life is to grow.”

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75. “So you have two basic options: deny the unpredictability of life and create your own false sense of security, or accept the vagaries of life and learn to live with them.”

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76. “I believe we can proactively choose to believe whatever we want instead of merely letting our beliefs coalesce as reactions to events.”

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77. “Your beliefs about reality become your beliefs about yourself.”

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78. “It’s funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it’s time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.”

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79. “Courageous people are still afraid, but they don’t let the fear paralyze them.”

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80. “You are too free and untamable to be labeled.”

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81. “Are you trying to live a safe life? The word safe is both an adjective and a noun. As an adjective it means “being free from danger.” As a noun it’s “an enclosed storage container with a lock.” If you’re living the adjective, you’re living the noun. Don’t trap yourself in a cage of false security by trying to avoid rejection. In the long run, building your courage is a smarter choice than running from imaginary dangers.”

— Steve Pavlina

82. “Thought and action can be perceived as two different dimensions of who you are: the mental you and the physical you.”

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83. “Persistence of action comes from persistence of vision.”

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84. “The way I see it, school is never out. If you want to put yourself in a position of creating substantial value, you must commit to being a lifelong student.”

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85. “Instead of meeting your needs, you experience true abundance. Instead of applying your knowledge to your tasks, you unlock your true genius. Instead of tolerating your daily routine, you work in a state of joy. And instead of just putting in the time, you fill your days with a sense of purpose. What.”

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86. “When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.” – R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER.”

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87. “When you go to bed whenever and allow yourself to get up whenever, you reward your brain for continued laziness and inefficiency.”

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88. “Money itself is too weak to motivate much discipline. This is one reason so many people are deep in debt.”

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89. “Your social network will eventually reflect your neural network.”

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90. “Many difficulties which nature throws our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.” – TITUS LIVIUS.”

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91. “A man doesn’t require the approval of others. He’s willing to follow his heart wherever it leads him. When a man is following his heart-centered path, it’s of little consequence if the entire world is against him.”

— Steve Pavlina