Mark Manson
23 quotes.
Quotes by Mark Manson
- A good rule of thumb: if a decision is not permanent, it’s better to move too fast. If a decision is permanent, it’s better to move too slow.
- Change is terrifying, until you do it. Then it’s just your new normal.
- Changing and improving your life requires you to destroy a part of yourself and replace it with a newer, better version. Growth is therefore, by definition, painful to some degree.
- Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is feeling the fear, the doubt, the insecurity, and deciding that something else is more important.
- Don’t hope for a life without problems. There’s no such thing. Instead, hope for a life full of good problems.
- Fear magnifies the task; action shrinks it.
- From the outside self-discipline looks like restriction. But from the inside it feels like self-respect.
- Happiness requires struggle. Without struggle, the world would lack meaning and our joys would feel empty. Be grateful for your struggles, because within them is the constant opportunity for purpose.
- Maturity is the ability to prioritize values before feelings.
- No life can be permanently ruined because no living conscious person lacks choice, perception and determination. No matter how bad things get, you are always able to choose to make them better.
- Nobody’s responsible for our problems but us.
- Pain is part of life. Accept it. Live through it. Learn from it. Then growth will show up quietly, almost as if by accident.
- Regardless of what you think or feel or wish to be true, true values are reflected in your choices and actions.
- Social media says: do everything, everywhere, all at once. Reality says: focus on doing one or two things extremely well, in one place, consistently, over a long period of time.
- The more something scares you, the more you should do it.
- The rare people who do become truly exceptional at something do so not because they believe they are exceptional. On the contrary, they become amazing because they’re obsessed with improvement.
- There’s no such thing as a “bad experience,” only an experience that we fail to utilize.
- We believe we don’t have enough time when really, we don’t have enough focus.
- Who you are is defined by the values you are willing to struggle for.
- You can feel safe, or you can make progress. Choose one.
- You don’t build psychological resilience by feeling good all the time. You build psychological resilience by getting better at feeling bad.
- You don’t find your purpose. You build your purpose, experiment by experiment, mistake by mistake.
- You’ll never be happy if you need a reason to be happy.