Steve Chandler > Quotes

“Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How to Become the Person You've Always Wanted to Be

“Write down 10 things you would do in your life if you had absolutely no fear. Then pick one of them and do it.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How to Become the Person You've Always Wanted to Be

“Not being excited is to have missed the whole point of life.”
― Steve Chandler

“Whatever goal you want to reach, you can reach it 10 times faster if
you are happy”
― Steve Chandler, 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever

“Help me to believe the truth about myself, no matter how beautiful it may be.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How to Become the Person You've Always Wanted to Be

“Losing is not the same as being defeated.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How to Become the Person You've Always Wanted to Be

“You believe that you live in the
universe when in reality the universe lives in you”
― Steve Chandler, 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever

“Happiness comes from growth, not comfort.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“Some people us language to describe the lives they lead, and other people use language to create the lives they lead.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How to Become the Person You've Always Wanted to Be

“Negative thinking is something we all do. The difference between the
person who is primarily optimistic and the person who is primarily
pessimistic is that the optimist learns to become a good debater. Once
you become thoroughly aware of the effectiveness of optimism in your
life, you can learn to debate your pessimistic thoughts.”
― Steve Chandler, 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever

“The more you do, the more you can do.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“Without being conscious of death, you can't be fully
aware of the gift of life.”
― Steve Chandler, 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever

“fatigue, paradoxically, is almost always a result of living a life of too little action.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“You can replace any pattern of behavior (or thought) with another. All it takes is relentless practice.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“3-Tell yourself a true lie:
Fake it till you make it,The lie will become the truth.”
― Steve Chandler, 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever

“Fear is overcome by doing what we fear to do. Action defeats fear, just as scissors cut paper.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“No one creates a great life without reconnecting to the enthusiasm experienced in childhood.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“Management and efficiency studies in the work place tell us that one hour of uninterrupted time is worth three hours of time that is constantly interrupted.”
― Steve Chandler, Time Warrior: How to defeat procrastination, people-pleasing, self-doubt, over-commitment, broken promises and chaos

“If you help others, you will be helped,”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“We either make ourselves miserable," said the Brazilian sage Carlos Castaneda, "or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“The human spirit, like a campfire, must be lit again each day.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“The human system does not really want comfort, it wants challenge. It wants adventure.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“It’s hard to stay motivated when you’re confused. When you simplify your life, it gathers focus. The more you can focus your life, the more motivated it gets.”
― Steve Chandler, 10 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever

“All courageous people have fear. They just do things anyway,”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“A major part of living a life of self-motivation is having something to wake up for in the morning—something that you are “up to” in life so that you will stay hungry.”
― Steve Chandler, 10 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever

“We human beings love trying to solve things. As long as they’re not our things.”
― Steve Chandler, Time Warrior: How to defeat procrastination, people-pleasing, self-doubt, over-commitment, broken promises and chaos

“Somebody should tell us... right at the start of our lives... that we are dying. Then we might live to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.   Michael Landon”
― Steve Chandler, Fearless: Creating the Courage to Change the Things You Can

“I believe that half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“On your death bed, you will not wish you had been more comfortable, or that you had found an even easier, softer pleasure zone to hide out in. You will wish you had ventured out more. That you had spoken up more. Tried some things. Reinvented yourself one more time.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be

“Reinvention involves growing up. Growing above and beyond the hurts and memories of the past”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be