91 Quotes by Steve Pavlina

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Your beliefs about reality become your beliefs about yourself.

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