Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

"I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I'm still here. I have a history of victory."

"I dont write books so that you can be fascinated with me. I write them so you can be fascinated with YOU!"

"Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Be true to yourself. How you treat yourself sets the standard for how others will treat you."

"If you want to find happiness, find gratitude."

"The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted upon."

"Each day gives the opportunity for you to be treated right, to feel worthy, and to be successful. It’s a choice you have to make, a faith you have to embrace, and a standard you have to set."

"A beautiful thing happens when we start paying attention to each other. It is by participating more in your relationship that you breathe life into it."

"Once you understand how powerful you are within, you exponentially increase the power and potentiality of everything outside of you."

"Don't wait for other people to be loving, giving, compassionate, grateful, forgiving, generous, or friendly... lead the way!"

"The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them."

"Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing."

"Stop blaming outside circumstances for your inside chaos."

"The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts; it gives you what you demand with your actions. In essence, you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE."

"Faith is the poetry of our dreams; action is the builder of our reality."

"Your life begins to change the day you take responsibility for it."

"Blame is the creed of the disempowered."

"There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty."

"If at first you don’t succeed, you’re doing it wrong. Learn from the experience. Try again, but with a different approach."

"Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you."

"Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you can do to bring it back. You can’t “should’ve” done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!"