Mark Manson Quotes

My goal in life is to make decisions that minimize regrets. I don't regret anything I've done.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

I believe that the plight of life and all existence is to master one's self, you know, one day at a time.

I don't have any bad habbits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they're all right for me.

If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Never stray from life's purpose. Refrain from counting someone else's blessings instead of your own.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.

Just lead your life and try to make the best decisions.

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.

I'm living on this positive mind frame where I'm only attracting positive things. I'm controlling my energy, I'm eating right, I'm meditating, I'm in the gym, I'm doing all this stuff I'm supposed to be doing. I'm past that young, immature way of thinking. I just want to be great.

Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

Maybe I'll take a little better care of myself, but I wouldn't count on it.

I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself.

I'm a passionate person. I'm a lot of things, like most people are. Most people are dynamic. The focus is not on me though, I'm a screen. The aim is to always keep myself in the position where the screen is clear.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

I made a conscious decision to live my life the best way I could and that meant to publicise myself as little as possible.

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.