When it comes to business, life, and everything in between, Marie Forleo is a force to be reckoned with. She’s helped countless people create the lives they want through her inspirational quotes. We’ve gathered 80 of our favorite Marie Forleo quotes to help motivate and inspire you. So what are you waiting for? Let’s get started!
Who is Marie Forleo, and what is she known for?
Marie Forleo is a business strategist, author, motivational speaker, and television host. She’s the founder of MarieForleo.com, a website that provides online courses and resources for entrepreneurs and creative professionals. She’s also the host of MarieTV, an award-winning web series where she interviews some of the world’s most fascinating people. In addition to all of that, she’s a New York Times bestselling author with her book Everything is Figureoutable.
With all that she’s accomplished, it’s no wonder that Marie Forleo is often quoted as an inspiration to others. Here are 80 of our favorite Marie Forleo quotes to help motivate and inspire you:
1. “The most powerful words in the universe are the words you say to yourself.”
2. “The secret to finding your passion is to bring it to everything you do. (Yes, even doing the laundry!)”
3. “I win or I learn, but I never lose.”
4. “Perfectionism at its core isn’t about high standards. It’s about fear. Fear of failure. Fear of looking stupid, fear of making a mistake, fear of being judged, criticized, and ridiculed. It’s the fear that one simple fact might be true:
5. “You can do whatever you set your mind to if you just roll up your sleeves, get in there, and do it. Everything is figureoutable.”
6. “Not having the best situation, but seeing the best in your situation is the key to happiness.”
7. “Clarity comes from action, not thought.”
8. “If it’s important enough, I’ll make the time. If not, I’ll make an excuse.”
9. “Your potential is limitless. You are unique, valuable, capable, and worthy of the dreams in your heart. Most of all, you have what it takes to transform and transcend whatever challenges you face.”
10. “Nearly two decades later, I can say that the only thing that allowed me to take that leap was because a deeper, wiser part of me believed that somehow I’d be able to figure it out.”
11. “In order to change ourselves, we must first believe we can.”
12. “Don’t wait until you find someone. You are someone.”
13. “There’s a difference between owning your choices and blaming yourself.”
14. “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better”
15. “Just because someone doesn’t like what you do doesn’t mean no one else will. A person’s opinion is not The Truth, it’s their truth.”
16. “Every pro starts off as an amateur. There’s not one top artist, athlete, writer, scientist, architect, entrepreneur, programmer, musician, or potter who enters the field at the top of her game. To begin anything new or learn anything new means you will be a neophyte. You must go from outsider to insider. Respect that. Embrace it. Be willing to suck.”
17. “insight without action is worthless. Taking action is the only path to change.”
18. “We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
19. “Opportunity cost is no joke. Every choice has a price. Everything you say yes to means you’re saying no to something else. Translation? Each time you pick up your brain-draining gadget and say YES to watching another cat video, you’re saying NOPE to ever reaching your biggest and most important long-term goals.”
20. “There are two types of pain you will go through in life: the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. Discipline weighs ounces, while regret weighs tons.”
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21. “It’s hard to become what you don’t see.”
22. “Our brains tend to reinforce what we already believe.”
23. “All beliefs are a choice and choices can be changed.”
24. “Bullshit makes good fertilizer.”
25. “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
26. “…a fall is never final unless you stay on the ground.”
27. “Remember—humans once believed the world was flat, that margarine was better than butter, and that an ice-pick lobotomy cured mental illness. Aren’t you glad those days are over?”
28. “What holds us back from consistently performing at the levels we’re capable of? To find the answer, we have to look inside. No matter what we’re trying to figure out, the biggest barriers are often in our own minds:”
29. “Create before you consume.”
30. “Rule 1. All problems (or dreams) are figureoutable. Rule 2. If a problem is not figureoutable, it’s not really a problem—it’s a fact of life or law of nature (e.g., death or gravity). Rule 3. You may not care enough to figure this problem out or achieve this particular dream. That’s okay. Find another problem or dream that ignites a blazing fire in your heart and go back to Rule 1.”
31. “What can I learn from this? How can this work for me?”
32. “Simple is elegant and extremely efficient.”
33. “It’s never about the lack of money or time or anything else. It’s about your internal game, your commitment to do whatever it takes to be creative, get resourceful, and figure it out. To find or make a way ahead, no matter what.”
34. “The art of eliminating excuses means embracing the fact that your dreams aren’t made or broken by anyone but you.”
35. “If you believed to your core that everything really is figureoutable, what would you now do? What would you create or heal or transform or transcend? Who would you become?”
36. “Knowing something intellectually is very different from doing something consistently, mastering it, and benefiting from it.”
37. “Envy is often a clue that there is something latent in you that needs to be expressed.”
38. “if you’re committed to figuring things out, all excuses have got to go.”
39. “A key to success is to start before you are ready.”
40. “No matter what you’re facing, you have what it takes to figure anything out and become the person you’re meant to be.”
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41. “No matter what you want to figure out, one thing is for sure: writing it down is a fundamental step to making it real.”
42. “it’s important to stay mindful of your environment, especially as you work to incorporate new, more supportive and expansive beliefs.”
43. “Companies with billions of dollars employ some of the most intelligent, creative humans on the planet to mastermind new ways to lure us into spending our lives on their apps and in their platforms. Remember, stock prices rely on keeping engagement metrics high. Many tech companies’ survival is based on continuously inventing ways to capture an ever-growing share of your time and attention. If you think you’re a customer of these products and platforms, think again. Your time, attention, and data are their product.”
44. “appreciating the upside doesn’t negate the hazards.”
45. “a belief is nothing more than a thought that you’ve decided is significant and true.”
46. “I say this because deep in my bones I am that certain everything really is figureoutable. Yes, even if you’re starting from scratch. Even if you’ve already tried and failed. Even if you don’t have a clue what the hell you’re doing or why things keep going wrong. Even if the world has told you time and time again that you can’t. Even if you’ve been born into extraordinary challenges or find yourself with the deck stacked against you.”
47. “it was about making the time. And there’s always more time than we realize”
48. “Speaking of taking responsibility, a quick reminder about an essential universal principle: You are 100 percent responsible for your life. Always and in all ways. It’s not your parents. It’s not the economy. It’s not your husband or your wife or your family. It’s not your boss. It’s not the schools you went to. It’s not the government or society or institutions or your age. You are responsible for what you believe, how you feel, and how you behave.”
49. “If you want, you can keep all your reasons (i.e., excuses) why you can’t make change happen. Why you can’t figure things out. You can hang on to all your reasons—your age, your parents, your genetics, your health, where you were born, ad nauseam. No one is going to come and take those reasons away. You have every right to think and believe whatever you want. But if you do hold on to the reasons why you “can’t,” know this: You’ll never experience the depth of your love, your gifts, your strength, your creativity, and your highest potential. Neither will the world.”
50. “You can scare yourself into stuckness by assuming you have to make radical life changes in order to make progress. You don’t. Real change is practically invisible as it’s happening. No trumpets sound. A marching band will not play at your door. Meaningful progress doesn’t feel particularly exciting. Most days, it feels like work. You show up, grind it out (sometimes joyfully, sometimes not), and repeat.”
51. “Look around. There’s no shortage of people hungry for a moment of connection. There’s always someone who could use a little assistance. A little attention. A little comfort. A little love. Next time you catch yourself feeling like a fraud, check yourself. Chances are, you’re shining your flashlight on yourself rather than directing it where it can make its greatest impact—caring for others.”
52. “Instead of saying, What’s the point? ask yourself, What’s the next right move?”
53. “You make time for what matters most.”
54. “It’s never about having the time, it’s about making the time.”
55. “Millions of neurons are constantly monitoring the environment to select the most important things for us to focus on. These neurons are collectively the attentional filter. They work largely in the background, outside of our conscious awareness. This is why most of the perceptual detritus of our daily lives doesn’t register, or why, when you’ve been driving on the freeway for several hours at a stretch, you don’t remember much of the scenery that has whizzed by: Your attentional system “protects” you from registering it because it isn’t deemed important.”
56. “The second destructive thought virus is “This won’t work for me.”
57. “FEEL SAD, NOT MAD Imagine how painful and miserable someone’s life must be to have time to be that mean.”
58. “you’ll never grow beyond your current circumstances if you’re closed off to everything except what you currently know.”
59. “Your innate power is immense. Your potential is limitless. You are unique, valuable, capable, and worthy of the dreams in your heart. Most of all, you have what it takes to transform and transcend whatever challenges you face.”
60. “Putting pen to paper is a mystical way to access your most profound truths.”
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61. “Repetition is a key principle in neuroplasticity. It’s how we rewire our brains and turn good ideas into permanent new ways of being and behaving.”
62. “The fastest way out of our fear is through it.”
63. “If you had to find the time, you would.”
64. “They had power and security, and were making millions. But on an emotional and spiritual level, many seemed bankrupt.”
65. “Yet there can be no significant change in the world unless we first have the courage to change ourselves. In order to change ourselves, we must first believe we can.”
66. “miracles like electricity, indoor plumbing, and Wi-Fi. Do you realize that virtually everything that surrounds us was once only a thought? An idea? A wild, formless figment of someone’s imagination? Every movie you’ve ever seen. Every story you’ve ever heard. Every book you’ve read. Every song that’s made you sing, dance, or cry has taken the mystical journey from the world of unmanifest to the manifest. From formless idea to concrete reality. These minds of ours are magical creation machines. They’re the birthplace of every extraordinary experience we’ve ever encountered and every major breakthrough in human history.”
67. “I had no idea how to find work I’d love doing. Even the idea of trying felt wildly irresponsible.”
68. “Everything in the material world is first created on the level of thought.”
69. “We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
70. “Do you realize that virtually everything that surrounds us was once only a thought? An idea? A wild, formless figment of someone’s imagination? Every movie you’ve ever seen. Every story you’ve ever heard. Every book you’ve read. Every song that’s made you sing, dance, or cry has taken the mystical journey from the world of unmanifest to the manifest. From formless idea to concrete reality. These minds of ours are magical creation machines. They’re the birthplace of every extraordinary experience we’ve ever encountered and every major breakthrough in human history.”
71. “Confirmation bias means we look for and find evidence to support our beliefs. We cherry-pick information that confirms what we already know, while ignoring (consciously and unconsciously) information that challenges our existing beliefs.”
72. “Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it.” It’s part of a longer passage, which reads:”
73. “Our minds are what give us the power to manufacture reality, both for ourselves and others. That’s because . . .”
74. “The brain is wired to answer questions. No matter what question you ask, your brain will immediately start searching for an answer.”
75. “Clarity comes from engagement, not thought.”
76. “This isn’t always possible, but train yourself to move toward discomfort. Put yourself in situations that feel scary and intimidating—that’s where the figureoutable magic is!”
77. “The first destructive thought to watch out for is “I know this already.” Whenever we feel like we already know something, our minds disengage and shut down. The next time you hear yourself thinking or saying, “I know this already,” especially as you read this book, immediately catch that thought and switch to a growth-minded question. Ask yourself, “What can I learn from this?” Ask it again and again with genuine curiosity. “What can I learn from this? What can I learn from this?”
78. “Nothing exists in our world that does not first exist in our mind.”
79. “When you’re stuck in a paralyzing thought loop of indecision, stop thinking and start doing. Make a move, no matter how tiny.”
80. “We’re born creators with an innate power to bring our ideas and visions into reality.”
