Steven Bartlett Quotes

“Real ambition is about you; it doesn’t care about likes, followers or comments, it cares about what honestly matters to you.”

“Don’t work hard just so you can take a holiday. Work hard to build a life that you don’t need to take a holiday from.”

“The most convincing sign that someone will achieve new results in the future is new behaviour in the present.”

“You wouldn’t plant a seed and then dig it up every few minutes to see if it has grown. So why do you keep questioning yourself, your hard work and your decisions? Have patience and keep watering your seeds.”

“Anything that costs your mental health is too expensive. Look elsewhere.”

“Don’t find someone that makes you happy. Make yourself happy then find someone.”

“Finding happiness and security alone is crucial to finding it together.”

“Never forget the relationship you have with yourself sets the tone for the relationship you have with everyone else. If you want to have better relationships with other people, work on yourself.”

“There is no gratitude greater than taking care of yourself.”

“Fundamentally we’re all the by-product of not what has happened to us, but how we choose to handle it.”

“Live in accordance with your outside world and you’ll soon find misery. Live in accordance with your inside world and you’ll soon find happiness.”

“When you change the story you tell yourself, everything else changes too.”

“For a healthy mind, burn off grudges, regrets about your past, irrational worries about the future, ingratitude and limiting beliefs that are holding your potential hostage.”

“If your goal is to improve your mental health, start by removing the junk from your mental diet.”

“Maybe you’ve always been happy, but the world, social media and external comparisons have convinced you that you can’t possibly be.”

“Be grateful, for gratitude can bring life to life, it can turn a meal to a feast, resentment to love, a grudge to forgiveness, an enemy to a friend, a disease to hope and you to enough.”

“If you want to avoid making the same mistakes twice make more decisions based on your past memories and fewer decisions based on your current emotions.”

“If you go through life believing that happiness is somewhere in your future, it always will be - it will never be where you are now.”

“You have to call off the search in order to find everything you’ve been searching for.”

“Worrying about what has been before will not change what is to come. Only look back to learn.”

“Social media is full of people that can spot toxic behavior in everyone but themselves. The world doesn’t need more critics, it needs more self-awareness.”

“You have to become the author of your own ‘script’, one written by your heart, not one directed by your society.”

“If you want long-term success in business, relationships and life, you have to get better at accepting uncomfortable truths as fast as possible. When you refuse to accept an uncomfortable truth, you’re choosing to accept an uncomfortable future.”

“True prosperity is what you know and what you can do.”

“Comfortable and Easy are short-term friends but long-term enemies. If you’re looking for growth, choose the challenge.”

“The happiness you’ll find across all areas of your life - your work, your relationships and everything in between - will positively correlate to your ability to deal with uncertainty.”

“Save your explanations for those who are determined to understand you. Give your silence to those that are determined to misunderstand you.”

“The black sheep in any group is often just the person who sees through everyone else’s bullsh*t.”

“The version of you that people create in their mind is not your responsibility.”

“Stop telling yourself you’re not qualified, good enough or worthy. Growth happens when you start doing the things you’re not qualified to do.”

“Blame is great for your ego; responsibility is great for your future.”

“The least regrettable way to live is on your own terms in your own way and for your own cause.”

“One person can change your life, that person is you.”

“Imagine if you took all of the time, energy and emotions you’ve been giving to meaningless relationships with part-time people and invested all of it into your family and loyal friends and yourself. Imagine.”

“They call it perfect timing after years of long-term patience.”

“Your success will be defined by your attitude towards the small stuff - the things most people overlook, ignore or don’t care about. The easiest way to do big things is by focusing on the small things.”

“Taking no risks will be your biggest risk. You have to risk failure to succeed. You have to risk heartbreak to love. You have to risk criticism for the applause. You have to risk the ordinary to achieve the extraordinary. If you live avoiding risk, you’re risking missing out on life.”

“Time is both free and priceless. The person you are now is a consequence of how you used your time in the past. The person you’ll become in the future is a consequence of how you use your time in the present.”

“Most people need consistency more than they need intensity. Intensity makes a good story. Consistency makes progress.”

“Quitting is for winners and quitting is a skill.”

“Stories are the single most powerful weapon any leader can arm themselves with - they are the currency of humanity. Those who tell captivating, inspiring, emotional stories rule the world.”

“Being selective about how you spend your time and who you spend your time with is a sign of self-respect.”

“Healthy conflict strengthens relationships because those involved are working against a problem; unhealthy conflict weakens a relationship because those involved are working against each other.”

“If you want to keep someone’s brain lit up and receptive to your point of view, you must not start your response with a statement of disagreement.”

“Being able to simplify an idea and successfully share it with others is both the path to understanding it and the proof that you do. One of the ways we mask our lack of understanding of any idea is by using more words, bigger words and less necessary words.”

“The most important success factor in your work is who you choose to work with.”