Marcus Buckingham Quotes

I don't hold onto anything, because it's a waste of energy to do so, really. There's nothing that I can do about the way people want to write about me. I just try and concentrate on my work and do that as well as I can.

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

I am the age that I am and I am trying to do the best with what I got.

I may not be perfect, but I'm trying.

I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

I'm like a recovering perfectionist. For me it's one day at a time.

I learned that you go through things, you deal with them and that's what empowers you and ultimately makes you a happy person.

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

It's been hard, but I've finally come to the realization that it's okay to not be perfect.

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Don't be so hard on yourself. Be a little harder on yourself. Learn from your experiences. Don't dwell on things. Get on with your life.

So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.

Of course! It takes a lot of strength to mend a broken heart. Channelising energies into your work helps, but also to be able to accept situations for what they are instead of questioning them helps immensely.

What's happened in my career has been about knowing myself and realizing my flaws are my strengths, and to embrace them; to access what I'm really good at, and what I'm not so good at; and tune out the voices that get inside your head and make you think you can't do something.

Accept what you cannot control.

I'm not going to sit here and tell anybody I haven't had difficulties in my life, haven't made any bad decisions. But to sit back and consider myself a bad person or not doing something positive, it's so untrue.

Things happen for some reason. I don't know what, but I just think about the positives, focus on getting better, and that's it.

I've learned to ignore the negative people and just be a living example of confidence and self-love.

I'm trying this thing where I don't regret as much 'cause it doesn't really work that well to regret things.

I've learned to go out and focus on what I can control, like how hard I work and my attitude and whether I'm happy or not. I've really tried to focus on those things.

I used to try to get revenge on the critics, but now I realize I've already won, and it doesn't matter what people say.