True courage is more a matter of intellect than of feeling.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Courage
Willpower is your ability to set a course of action and say, “Engage!”
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Willpower
If you dislike the answers you’re getting from life, try asking better questions.
—Steve Pavlina
Security is a feeling of certainty that everything is OK and that all your basic needs will be provided for
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Future
Courageous people are still afraid, but they don’t let the fear paralyze them.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Courage
I believe we can proactively choose to believe whatever we want instead of merely letting our beliefs coalesce as reactions to events.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Belief
We Americans have so much potential. We just need to cultivate an environment that allows us to let go of our Cro-Magnon nationalism and start living like citizens of earth.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Americans
Future is purely a mental construct—an illusion—because you never exist in the future, only in the present. By using a consistent, internally congruent vision of the future to make decisions day after day, you start to build momentum, and you’ll ultimately achieve your goals.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Future
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
Topics: Success
Persistence of action comes from persistence of vision.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Action
Fuzzy thinking leads to hesitancy in acting. Clear thinking makes it easier to act boldly and consistently.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Thoughts
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.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Belief
If you try to impress an alarm clock, it will simply tell you the time.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Time
Reading is a lot like physical exercise. Reading is a workout for the brain.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Reading
Willpower is a concentration of force. You gather up all your energy and make a massive thrust forward.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Willpower
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.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Friendship
Confidence is a feeling of certainty, a natural inner resource that can be summoned whenever you want it.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Confidence
Willpower is the spearhead of self-discipline.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Willpower
One of the secrets to success is recognizing that motivation follows action.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Motivation
Your values are your current estimations of truth. They represent your answer to the question of how to live.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Values
Tackling challenges that are too big for you is what makes you grow as a human being. Why do you think this problem keeps coming up in your life, staring you in the face?. Do you think you’re supposed to ignore it and hide from it and wait for someone else to solve it for you?. If you notice it, you own it.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Challenges
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.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Hard Work, Discipline, Success
While a history of success can certainly increase your confidence, you don’t actually need that history to feel confident.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Confidence
If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Hard Work
Planning allows you to mentally create a model of your future.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Thoughts
To work effectively you need uninterrupted blocks of time in which you can complete meaningful work… I’ve found that a minimum of 90 minutes is ideal for a single block.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Sin, Work, Ideal
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.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Stress
If you want to succeed you must be congruent.
—Steve Pavlina
Courage is the dividing line between weakness and strength of character.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Courage
The more disciplined you become, the easier life gets.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Discipline
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