Steve Maraboli

"Your fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival."

"I feel keeping a promise to yourself is a direct reflection of the love you have for yourself. I used to make promises to myself and find them easy to break. Today, I love myself enough to not only make a promise to myself, but I love myself enough to keep that promise"

"Unfortunately, the truth is usually the first casualty in an interaction between two people."

"The power to change your life lies in the simplest of steps."

"There's a difference between having the faith to believe and having the faith to receive."

"You have to create the space for God to fill."

"Plan for your success; Live your successio."

"There is an abundance of power to be found in simplicity."

"Enjoy today, it's what you hold in your senses now."

"Religious structure often dilutes the spiritual experience."

"You sing the song in your heart and the people it resonates with are going to dance to it."

"Have a goal, a destination and a clear map. If you don't know where you are going any road will take you there"

"How would your life be different if … You pretended those around you were deaf to your words? Let today be the day … You let your actions speak and communicate your feelings and intentions."

"Sometimes the prison of fear is so powerful there's no need to lock the cell doors. Your fear creates a willingness to self-imprison."

"A bruise to the ego hurts more than a break to the bone."

"We will get true and lasting change as soon as we make helping people a way of life instead of a business."

"It doesn't matter what you did or where you were, it matters where you are and what you're doing."

"If you are not in the now you are nowhere."

"There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you."

"Today is yours to shape. Create a masterpiece!"

"The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same thing."

"Nothing is as unpopular as the truth."

"You can't just wish change; you have to live the change in order for it to become a reality."

"The true dynamic of a successful friendship and relationship is when the respect is mutual and reciprocal."

"When we focus our attention on things that are either in the past of in the future, it dilutes our experience of right now. Today is the day you can break from that."

"Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient."

"Happiness is not the absence of problems; it's the ability to deal with them."

"There is a universal law; INTENT is the cause, your life is the effect."

"Today is the only day in which we have any power."

"Social thinking dilutes most personal power."

"Your simple smile can lighten the darkest places"

"Give yourself entirely to those around you. Be generous with your blessings. A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal."

"Freedom is more than just a word and a patriotic concept. It is the purest intent of God."

"My mistakes have been my greatest mentors."

"I don't think we are ever prepared for the level of warfare at which ignorance fights."

"Nothing is going to change unless you first change"

"Love has no limitations. It cannot be measured. It has no boundaries. Although many have tried, love is indefinable."

"Never confuse someone else's inability to do something with its inability to be done."