35 Inspirational Mark Manson Quotes On Success

Mark Manson is an American self-help author, blogger, and entrepreneur. He is the author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life. He is also the CEO and founder of Infinity Squared Media LLC. May his quotes inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams. 

1. “This is the most simple and basic component of life: our struggles determine our successes.” Mark Manson

2. “If pursuing the positive is a negative, then pursuing the negative generates the positive. The pain you pursue in the gym results in better all-around health and energy. The failures in business are what lead to a better understanding of what’s necessary to be successful.” Mark Manson

3. “Carefully choose what to care about.” Mark Manson

4. “We all get dealt cards. Some of us get better cards than others. And while it’s easy to get hung up on our cards, and feel we got screwed over, the real game lies in the choices we make with those cards, the risk we decide to take, and the consequences we choose to live with. People who consistently make the best choices in the situations they’re given are the ones who eventually come out ahead in poker, just as in life. And it’s not necessarily the people with the best cards.” Mark Manson

5. “If you want to change how you see your problems, you have to change what you value and/or how you measure failure/success.” Mark Manson

6. “We suffer for the simple reason that suffering is biologically useful. It is nature’s preferred agent for inspiring change. We have evolved to always live with a certain degree of dissatisfaction and insecurity, because it’s the mildly dissatisfied and insecure creature that’s going to do the most work to innovate and survive.” Mark Manson

7. “Challenge yourself to find the good and beautiful thing inside of everyone. It’s there. It’s your job to find it. Not their job to show you.” Mark Manson

8. ” Everything we think and feel about a situation ultimately comes back to how valuable we perceive it to be.” Mark Manson

9. “Being wrong opens us up to the possibility of change. Being wrong brings the opportunity for growth.” Mark Manson

10. “One of those realizations was this: that life itself is a form of suffering. The rich suffer because of their riches. The poor suffer because of their poverty.” Mark Manson

11. “It turns out that adversity and failure are actually useful and even necessary for developing strong-minded and successful adults.” Mark Manson

12. “Commitment allows you to focus intently on a few highly important goals and achieve a greater degree of success than you otherwise would.” Mark Manson

13. “The fact is, people who base their self-worth on being right about everything prevent themselves from learning from their mistakes. They lack the ability to take on new perspectives and empathize with others. They close themselves off to new and important information.” Mark Manson

14. “We are responsible for experiences that aren’t our fault all the time. This is part of life.” Mark Manson

15. “You can’t build a better mind without challenging your own beliefs and assumptions.” Mark Manson

16. “True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving.” Mark Manson

17. “You can’t be an important and life-changing presence for some people without also being a joke and an embarrassment to others.” Mark Manson

18. “Problems never stop; they merely get exchanged and/or upgraded.” Mark Manson

19. “Values underlie everything we are and do. If what we value is unhelpful, if what we consider success/failure is poorly chosen, then everything based upon those values—the thoughts, the emotions, the day-to-day feelings—will all be out of whack.” Mark Manson

20. “Life is about not knowing and then doing something anyway.” Mark Manson

21. “We are actually often happier with less. When we’re overloaded with opportunities and options, we suffer from what psychologists refer to as the paradox of choice.” Mark Manson

22. “Commitment gives you freedom because you’re no longer distracted by the unimportant and frivolous.” Mark Manson

23. “Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience.” Mark Manson

24. “The more you desperately want to be rich, the more poor and unworthy you feel, regardless of how much money you actually make.” Mark Manson

25. “Self-Improvement and success often occur together. But that doesn’t mean they’re the same thing.” Mark Manson

26. “Happiness is like being cool, the harder you try the less it’s going to happen. So stop trying. Start living.” Mark Manson

27. “Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is feeling the fear, the doubt, the insecurity, and deciding that something else is more important.” Mark Manson

28. “You and everyone you know are going to be dead soon.” Mark Manson

29. “Our crisis is no longer material; it’s existential, it’s spiritual.” Mark Manson

30. “Who you are is defined by what you’re willing to struggle for.” Mark Manson

31. “To be happy we need something to solve. Happiness is therefore a form of action.” Mark Manson

32. “Whether we consciously recognize it or not, we are always responsible for our experiences.” Mark Manson

33. “What most people don’t understand is that passion is the result of action, not the cause of it.” Mark Manson

34. “A good life is not a life without problems. A good life is a life with good problems.” Mark Manson

35. “Don’t just sit there. Do something. The answers will follow.“ Mark Manson