300 Best Quotes Ever
1. "Be who you were created to be and you will set the world on fire." (Catherine of Siena) Click to tweet
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2. "Take up the battle, take it up. It’s yours. This is your life, this is your world." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet
3. "Doctors won’t make you healthy. Nutritionists won’t make you slim. Teachers won’t make you smart. Gurus won’t make you calm. Mentors won’t make you rich. Trainers won’t make you fit. Ultimately, you have to take responsibility. Save yourself." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
4. "You will not get what you want, you will get what you need." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
5. "The future belongs to people who can think, hustle, and create." (Ed Latimore) Click to tweet
6. "The best fighter is never angry." (Lao Tzu) Click to tweet
7. "We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary." (Alan Watts) Click to tweet
8. "Only that you do the right thing, nothing else matters." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
9. "All of us are alive because someone took care of us when we were small." (Aaron Thier) Click to tweet
10. "Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us." (Leo Tolstoy) Click to tweet
11. "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Click to tweet
12. "The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self." (Fred Rogers) Click to tweet
13. "Too many people believe that everything must be pleasurable in life, which makes them constantly search for distractions and short-circuits the learning process." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet
14. "The closer you are to the truth, the more silent you become inside." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
15. "Understand: the future belongs to groups that are fluid, fast, and nonlinear." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet
16. "The inspired minority triumphs over the inert masses." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Click to tweet
17. "If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet
18. "What you are being challenged by may be the very thing you’ve been waiting for." (Iyanla Vanzant) Click to tweet
19. "Extreme people get extreme results." (Sam Altman) Click to tweet
20. "Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art." (Susan Sontag) Click to tweet
21. "Sing the song that only you can sing, write the book that only you can write, build the product that only you can build… live the life that only you can live." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
22. "One of the main reasons people fall short of their potential is they care more about looking good than getting better. Excellence is the product of high aspirations and low ego." (Adam Grant) Click to tweet
23. "Our ambition should not be to win but to play with our full effort. Our intention is not to be thanked or recognized, but to help and to do what we think is right. Our focus is not on what happens to us but on how we respond. In this, we will find contentment and resilience." (Ryan Holiday) Click to tweet
24. "The only zen you’ll find on mountain tops is the zen you bring up there with you." (Alan Watts) Click to tweet
25. "The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are." (Joseph Campbell) Click to tweet
26. "The day a man becomes superior to pleasure, he will also be superior to pain." (Seneca) Click to tweet
27. "You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
28. "A man when he has done a good act, does not call out for others to come and see, but he goes on to another act, as a vine goes on to produce again the grapes in season." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
29. "It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it’s pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it." (Alice Walker) Click to tweet
30. "In the age of instant gratification, those who can endure discomfort are the most free." (Alex Sauer) Click to tweet
31. "The mediocre man consumes. The ordinary man seeks. The great man creates. The superior man does the right thing." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
32. "As soon as we free ourselves from the mirage of hurrying time, we are alive again, as in childhood, to the ecstasies of ordinary life." (Alan Watts) Click to tweet
33. "My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear merely what is necessary, still less conceal it… but love it." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
34. "He is the man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head." (G.K. Chesterton) Click to tweet
35. "Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors." (Fred Rogers) Click to tweet
36. "Our society is much more interested in information than wonder, in noise rather than silence… and i feel that we need a lot more wonder and a lot more silence in our lives." (Fred Rogers) Click to tweet
37. "First stop lying, then start speaking the truth." (Jordan Peterson) Click to tweet
38. "I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free." (Charles Dickens) Click to tweet
39. "To be calm is the highest achievement of the self." (Zen Proverb) Click to tweet
40. "Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular." (Roy T. Bennett) Click to tweet
41. "Love the sinner and hate the sin." (Augustine of Hippo) Click to tweet
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42. "This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time." (Tyler Durden) Click to tweet
43. "Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, “what are you doing for others?”" (Martin Luther King Jr.) Click to tweet
44. "You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
45. "My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet
46. "Only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet
47. "Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law." (Immanuel Kant) Click to tweet
48. "I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble." (Helen Keller) Click to tweet
49. "What i’m looking for is not out there, it is in me." (Helen Keller) Click to tweet
50. "It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell." (Buddha) Click to tweet
51. "Gossip dies when it reaches the ears of a wise and secure person." (Wesley Snipes) Click to tweet
52. "You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak." (George Clooney) Click to tweet
53. "You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants a magical solution to their problem, and everyone refuses to believe in magic." (Alice in Wonderland) Click to tweet
54. "There is no hurry, and in a way there is no future. It is all here – so take it easy, take your time, and get acquainted with it." (Alan Watts) Click to tweet
55. "The salvation of mankind depends upon independent thinkers directing their thoughts rightly." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Click to tweet
56. "If i’d followed all the rules, i’d never have gotten anywhere." (Marilyn Monroe) Click to tweet
57. "You’re only given a little spark of madness; you mustn’t lose it." (Robin Williams) Click to tweet
58. "Everything is my fault." (Tom Bilyeu) Click to tweet
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59. "A true man hates no one." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Click to tweet
60. "Above all, try something." (Franklin D. Roosevelt) Click to tweet
61. "Stay humble or be humbled."Click to tweet
62. "It’s weird not to be weird." (John Lennon) Click to tweet
63. "Beauty will save the world." (Fyodor Dostoevsky) Click to tweet
64. "Freedom lies in being bold." (Robert Frost) Click to tweet
65. "Whatever you feel you become." (Osho) Click to tweet
66. "Existence wants you to be you." (Osho) Click to tweet
67. "Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it." (Epictetus) Click to tweet
68. "Only the autodidacts are free." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) Click to tweet
69. "What worries you, masters you." (John Locke) Click to tweet
70. "Great intellects are skeptical." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
71. "I am responsible for what i see." (Gabby Bernstein) Click to tweet
72. "Don’t settle, and don’t struggle." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
73. "Solitude is the school of genius." (Edward Gibbon) Click to tweet
74. "The right time is always right now." (Casey Neistat) Click to tweet
75. "Inner peace is the ultimate luxury." (Carlos Del Valle) Click to tweet
76. "To understand is to know what to do." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Click to tweet
77. "The soul is awakened through service." (Erica Jong) Click to tweet
78. "The things you own end up owning you." (Chuck Palahniuk) Click to tweet
79. "Only the present moment contains life." (Thich Nhat Hanh) Click to tweet
80. "Love is the goal, life is the journey." (Osho) Click to tweet
81. "Patience is the greatest of all virtues." (Cato The Elder) Click to tweet
82. "Things worth having are worth waiting for." (Paulo Coelho) Click to tweet
83. "The world just wants your authentic truth." (Gabby Bernstein) Click to tweet
84. "The shadows are as important as the light." (Charlotte Bronte) Click to tweet
85. "Live the life you want other people to live." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
86. "The struggle ends when the gratitude begins." (Neale Donald Walsch) Click to tweet
87. "Conquer yourself and the world lies at your feet." (Augustine of Hippo) Click to tweet
88. "Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
89. "Getting over yourself offers exponential returns." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet
90. "Defensiveness is weakness. Vulnerability is strength." (Justin Kan) Click to tweet
91. "I’m proud of you. I hope that you are proud of you too." (Fred Rogers) Click to tweet
92. "Being poor is not having too little, it is wanting more." (Seneca) Click to tweet
93. "Never lose hope, my heart. Miracles dwell in the invisible." (Rumi) Click to tweet
94. "As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom." (Marie Von Ebner) Click to tweet
95. "To shut your eyes is to travel." (Emily Dickinson) Click to tweet
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96. "What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." (Jane Goodall) Click to tweet
97. "Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly." (G.K. Chesterton) Click to tweet
98. "Instructions for living a life: pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it." (Mary Oliver) Click to tweet
99. "There is no strength without adversity and no change without courage." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet
100. "A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet
101. "Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you’ve got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet
102. "Your greatest struggles become your greatest victories." (Joe De Sana) Click to tweet
103. "Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion." (Jack Kerouac) Click to tweet
104. "The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can." (Neil Gaiman) Click to tweet
105. "Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center. Big, undreamed-of things – the people on the edge see them first." (Kurt Vonnegut) Click to tweet
106. "What if people thought about their life not in terms of what they’ve accomplished or accumulated or experienced, but in terms of the effects they’ve had on others." (Neil Strauss) Click to tweet
107. "Shoot for the top, always. You know you’ll never make it, but what’s the fun if you don’t shoot for the top? Ursula k." (Le Guin) Click to tweet
108. "Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming." (Alice Walker) Click to tweet
109. "Get a move on… don’t worry whether anyone will give you credit for it… be satisfied with even the smallest progress, and treat the outcome of it all as unimportant." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
110. "Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly." (Franz Kafka) Click to tweet
111. "As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has – or ever will have – something inside that is unique to all time. It’s our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression." (Fred Rogers) Click to tweet
112. "From the time you were very little, you’ve had people who have smiled you into smiling, people who have talked you into talking, sung you into singing, loved you into loving. Let’s take some time to think of those extra special people." (Fred Rogers) Click to tweet
113. "If you have the courage to put your intellectual integrity before your reputation, nothing can break you." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) Click to tweet
114. "A man who really wants to be free has to accept immense responsibilities. He cannot dump his responsibilities on anybody else." (Osho) Click to tweet
115. "You create yourself moment to moment. You are not born as a fixed entity, but only as a infinite potentiality." (Osho) Click to tweet
116. "You really can change the world if you care enough." (Marian Wright Edelman) Click to tweet
117. "Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet." (Stephen Hawking) Click to tweet
118. "What if everything you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for." (Justin Perry) Click to tweet
119. "If someone says you’re weird, say “thank you”." (Ellen DeGeneres) Click to tweet
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120. "Rich people plan for three generations. Poor people plan for saturday night." (Gloria Steinem) Click to tweet
121. "You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks." (Winston Churchill) Click to tweet
122. "The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That’s all you need to know." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
123. "The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing." (Oscar Wilde) Click to tweet
124. "Virtue is what you do when nobody is looking. The rest is marketing." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) Click to tweet
125. "I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it." (Edgar Allan Poe) Click to tweet
126. "In heaven, all the interesting people are missing." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
127. "To see a candle’s light one must take it into a dark place. Ursula k." (Le Guin) Click to tweet
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128. "The fools in life want things fast and easy – money, success, attention." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet
129. "If you are living for the weekend you are already dead." (Bill Masur) Click to tweet
130. "You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down." (Toni Morrison) Click to tweet
131. "Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself." (C.S. Lewis) Click to tweet
132. "Anything of quality has gone through a distillation process."Click to tweet
133. "Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
134. "Cling to certainty, if it makes you feel better. Just be aware that what you’re clinging to is the opposite of life." (Neil Strauss) Click to tweet
135. "The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a struggle. Hiding what is shameful is itself a form of shame." (Mark Manson) Click to tweet
136. "Not being able to govern events, i govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me." (Michel de Montaigne) Click to tweet
137. "The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and objectionable." (Plato) Click to tweet
138. "I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him." (Booker T. Washington) Click to tweet
139. "You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass." (Bruce Lee) Click to tweet
140. "People are living just to impress. They must be really very poor inside, because only people suffering from inferiority complex want to impress others. A really superior person never compares himself with anybody else." (Osho) Click to tweet
141. "Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own, for what could be more fitting?" (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
142. "We spend far more time doing what’s easy than doing what’s right." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet
143. "Failure hurts but passes quickly. Regret hurts forever." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet
144. "If you are easily provoked you are easily controlled." (The Stoic Emperor) Click to tweet
145. "Finding information is easier than ever. Filtering information is harder than ever. We are bombarded with irrelevant data and unsolicited stimulation. Choosing what to ignore is as important as choosing what to pay attention to." (The Stoic Emperor) Click to tweet
146. "We are slaves to distraction, incessantly active, and are ever striving to become." (Jiddu Krishnamurti) Click to tweet
147. "When the self is not occupied with its own becoming there is an unpremeditated clarity, a deep ecstasy." (Jiddu Krishnamurti) Click to tweet
148. "It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly." (Bertrand Russell) Click to tweet
149. "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." (Charles Kingsley) Click to tweet
150. "Don’t feel entitled to anything you didn’t sweat and struggle for." (Marian Wright Edelman) Click to tweet
151. "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Click to tweet
152. "The things that we understand, create silence. The things that we do not, create emotion." (Kapil Gupta) Click to tweet
153. "There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves." (Byron Katie) Click to tweet
154. "Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy." (Robert Heinlein) Click to tweet
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155. "Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet
156. "I want to age like sea glass. Smoothed by tides but not broken. I want my hard edges to soften. I want to ride the waves and go with the flow. I want to catch a wave and let it carry me to where i belong. I want to be picked up and held gently by those who delight in my well earned patina and appreciate the changes i went through to achieve that beauty. I want to enjoy the journey and always remember that if you give the ocean something breakable it will turn it into something beautiful. I want to age like sea glass."Click to tweet
157. "One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again." (C.S. Lewis) Click to tweet
158. "The most expensive way to pay for anything is with time." (Brian Norgard) Click to tweet
159. "The person asking the questions is sometimes more valuable than the person providing the answers." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet
160. "You have to be willing to look like an idiot in the short term to look like a genius in the long term." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet
161. "The stupider you are, the smarter you think you are, and vice versa." (Richard Feynman) Click to tweet
162. "The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month." (Fyodor Dostoevsky) Click to tweet
163. "The modern mind is overstimulated and the modern body is understimulated and overfed. Meditation, exercise, and fasting restore an ancient balance." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
164. "The amateur avoids boredom, pain, discomfort, loneliness, fear. The wise keep going no matter what." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
165. "Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation." (Augustine of Hippo) Click to tweet
166. "When you go through life with preferences but don’t let your happiness depend on any one of them, then you’re awake." (Anthony de Mello) Click to tweet
167. "If a man can reduce his needs to zero, he is truly free: there is nothing that can be taken from him; nothing can hurt him." (John Boyd) Click to tweet
168. "If you live according to nature, you will never be poor. If you live according to opinion, you will never be rich." (Epicurus) Click to tweet
169. "What is rare is not raw talent, skill, or even confidence, but humility, diligence, and self-awareness." (Ryan Holiday) Click to tweet
170. "There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." (Peter F. Drucker) Click to tweet
171. "For water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow." (Plutarch) Click to tweet
172. "He who subdues his temper vanquishes his greatest enemy." (Publilius Syrus) Click to tweet
173. "Those who are wise won’t be busy, and those who are too busy can’t be wise." (Lin Yutang) Click to tweet
174. "He who stands on tiptoe doesn’t stand firm. He who rushes ahead doesn’t go far." (Lao Tzu) Click to tweet
175. "Life isn’t supposed to be fair, much less bend to your every whim." (David Goggins) Click to tweet
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176. "Wherever the past is dropped away and safety abandoned, life is renewed." (Alan Watts) Click to tweet
177. "The whole point of life is to be fully aware of it as it happens." (Alan Watts) Click to tweet
178. "The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in 10 minutes after the big picture has started, and no one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues." (Terry Pratchett) Click to tweet
179. "To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life." (T.S. Eliot) Click to tweet
180. "Relentlessly prune bullshit, don’t wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That’s what you do when life is short." (Paul Graham) Click to tweet
181. "Life can be improved by adding, or by subtracting. The world pushes you to add, because that benefits them. But the secret is to focus on subtracting." (Derek Sivers) Click to tweet
182. "If you increase your desire for happiness, you’ll likely lessen your tolerance for sadness and pain – and become less happy. But if you expand your capacity to tolerate sadness and pain, you’ll expand your capacity to enjoy life." (Neil Strauss) Click to tweet
183. "When building habits, choose consistency over content. The best book is the one you can’t put down. The best exercise is the one you enjoy doing every day. The best health food is the one you find tasty. The best work is the work you’d do for free." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
184. "The secret to life and the greatest success strategy of all is to love all of it and fear none of it." (Jon Gordon) Click to tweet
185. "The fates guide the person who accepts them and hinder the person who resists them." (Cleanthes) Click to tweet
186. "The secret to life is to go deep, not wide. Go all in." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
187. "Everything happens when it needs to happen; everyone is always where they need to be." (Iyanla Vanzant) Click to tweet
188. "To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
189. "Life is all about ‘not knowing’ and then doing something anyway. All of life is like this. All of it." (Mark Manson) Click to tweet
190. "Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest." (Herman Hesse) Click to tweet
191. "The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much." (William Hazlitt) Click to tweet
192. "99% of information is noise. 99% of interactions are fake. 99% of opportunities are traps. Life is a search for the 1%." (Johnny Uzan) Click to tweet
193. "Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness." (Zhuang Zhou) Click to tweet
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194. "Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward." (Pema Chodron) Click to tweet
195. "To journey happily may well be better than to arrive successfully." (Jordan Peterson) Click to tweet
196. "Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace." (Robert J. Sawyer) Click to tweet
197. "Enjoy the process along with the proceeds, because the process is where you live." (Charlie Munger) Click to tweet
198. "The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open." (Chuck Palahniuk) Click to tweet
199. "If you make where you are going more important than where you are, there may be no point in going." (Alan Watts) Click to tweet
200. "The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it." (George Santayana) Click to tweet
201. "Happiness is the absence of desire. It’s what you feel when you no longer want to change your state." (James Clear) Click to tweet
202. "It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
203. "No man is free who is not master of himself." (Epictetus) Click to tweet
204. "If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires." (Epicurus) Click to tweet
205. "You don’t need to be gifted. You just need to have enough commitment to accept being bad at something for as long as it takes to get good at it." (Neil Strauss) Click to tweet
206. "Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life." (William Faulkner) Click to tweet
207. "If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live." (Lin Yutang) Click to tweet
208. "There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence." (Lin Yutang) Click to tweet
209. "Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence." (Alan Watts) Click to tweet
210. "A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering." (14th Dalai Lama) Click to tweet
211. "Stress is caused by being “here” but wanting to be “there”." (Eckhart Tolle) Click to tweet
212. "Everyone is not your assignment. That’s why you’re drained." (Wesley Snipes) Click to tweet
213. "The faster you accept reality, the faster you find peace of mind." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
214. "Happiness is the process of becoming your ideal self." (Mark Manson) Click to tweet
215. "The superior man follows nobody else’s path." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Click to tweet
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216. "If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere." (Frank A. Clark) Click to tweet
217. "Competency will make you a living. Creativity will make you rich." (Brian Norgard) Click to tweet
218. "Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
219. "Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
220. "Don’t strive to be the best. It creates an illusion of an endpoint – and a delusion that the goal is to be superior to others. Strive to be better. The person you’re competing with is your past self, and the bar you’re setting is for your future self." (Adam Grant) Click to tweet
221. "Most successful people are people you’ve never heard of. They want it that way. It keeps them sober. It helps them do their jobs." (Ryan Holiday) Click to tweet
222. "Success isn’t about how your life looks to others. It’s about how it feels to you. That’s what it means to be true to yourself." (Michelle Obama) Click to tweet
223. "I used to think success meant having no problems. Now i know that it means being capable of handling any. This is a subtle but key difference. The former is a wish for ease. The latter is a privilege of strength." (Ed Latimore) Click to tweet
224. "The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything." (Warren Buffett) Click to tweet
225. "If people around you don’t think what you’re doing is a bit strange, maybe it’s not strange enough." (Patrick Collison) Click to tweet
226. "We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training." (Archilochus) Click to tweet
227. "Do the best one can. Do it over again. Then still improve, even if ever so slightly, those retouches." (Marguerite Yourcenar) Click to tweet
228. "In adversity, remember to keep an even mind." (Horace Mann) Click to tweet
229. "For if it is not right to do it, avoid doing the thing; but if it is right, why are you afraid of those who shall find fault wrongly?" (Epictetus) Click to tweet
230. "There are three ingredients for success – aggressiveness, timing and skill. If you show enough aggressiveness at the right time, you don’t need that much skill." (Howard Marks) Click to tweet
231. "Deep down, we know that what matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win, too." (Fred Rogers) Click to tweet
232. "Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing." (Lao Tzu) Click to tweet
233. "If you aren’t scared of spending time alone, you’re already halfway to success."Click to tweet
234. "The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet
235. "Stop caring what other people think and focus on being the best version of yourself possible." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet
236. "If you want exponential returns, replace the need to be proven right with the need to achieve the best outcome possible." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet
237. "Amateurs focus on the short term. Professionals focus on the long term." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet
238. "Amateurs want to arrive. Pros want to get better." (Jeff Goins) Click to tweet
239. "Amateurs want to be noticed. Pros want to be remembered." (Jeff Goins) Click to tweet
240. "We cannot lead anyone farther than we have been ourselves." (John C. Maxwell) Click to tweet
241. "The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet
242. "Use courage and wisdom, not labor, to make money." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) Click to tweet
243. "The only living works are those which have drained much of the author’s own life into them." (Samuel Butler) Click to tweet
244. "Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others." (Jack Welch) Click to tweet
245. "Study as if you know nothing. Work as if you can solve anything." (James Clear) Click to tweet
246. "If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?" (John Wooden) Click to tweet
247. "It’s not what the world holds for you. It is what you bring to it." (Lucy Maud Montgomery) Click to tweet
248. "There’s no tips and tricks [… ] it’s just a lot of focused work." (Lilly Singh) Click to tweet
249. "Most of the hard work happens in the shadows." (Sahil Lavingia) Click to tweet
250. "Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens." (Jordan Peterson) Click to tweet
251. "This is the real secret to life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play." (Alan Watts) Click to tweet
252. "After all work is still the best way of escaping from life." (Gustave Flaubert) Click to tweet
253. "Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret." (Baltasar Gracián) Click to tweet
254. "A country’s assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) Click to tweet
255. "No one will outwork me, no one." (Dwayne Johnson) Click to tweet
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256. "The universe always falls in love with a stubborn heart." (Paulo Coelho) Click to tweet
257. "The best things are the most difficult." (Plutarch) Click to tweet
258. "True change is within; leave the outside as it is." (14th Dalai Lama) Click to tweet
259. "Imagine who you could be, and then aim single-mindedly at that." (Jordan Peterson) Click to tweet
260. "If you dare to do the most difficult thing you can conceptualize, your life will work out better than if you do anything else." (Jordan Peterson) Click to tweet
261. "I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
262. "It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
263. "Today’s hot pain is tomorrow’s cold wisdom." (The Stoic Emperor) Click to tweet
264. "The only way that we can live is if we grow. The only way we can grow is if we change. The only way we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we are exposed is if we throw ourselves into the open." (C. JoyBell C.) Click to tweet
265. "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again … who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly." (Theodore Roosevelt) Click to tweet
266. "The best thing to get addicted to is progress. Physical, mental, whatever. Once you get hooked on the feeling of winning, your life will make a dramatic change." (Ed Latimore) Click to tweet
267. "The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win." (Roger Bannister) Click to tweet
268. "Death may be close at hand; death may be far off. Transcend death with no-thought, no-idea. Do what you need to do, with no regret." (Awa Kenzô) Click to tweet
269. "Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant." (Viktor E. Frankl) Click to tweet
270. "It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action." (Lin Yutang) Click to tweet
271. "Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves." (Charlotte Bronte) Click to tweet
272. "No matter who you are, who your parents are or were, where you live, what you do for a living, or how much money you have, you’re probably living at about 40 percent of your true capability." (David Goggins) Click to tweet
273. "Be more than motivated, be more than driven, become literally obsessed to the point where people think you’re fucking nuts." (David Goggins) Click to tweet
274. "True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care — with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world." (David Foster Wallace) Click to tweet
275. "To be, in a word, unborable… it is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish." (David Foster Wallace) Click to tweet
276. "You can win a lot in life just by being the last one to give up." (James Clear) Click to tweet
277. "Pleasure consumes us, work strengthens us. Let us choose." (Charles Baudelaire) Click to tweet
278. "Better to be without logic than without feeling." (Charlotte Bronte) Click to tweet
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279. "Never chase love. If it isn’t given freely, it is worthless." (Paulo Coelho) Click to tweet
280. "When there is love you have nothing more to do. Then where you are, you have heaven; then all seeking comes to an end." (Jiddu Krishnamurti) Click to tweet
281. "Love makes you rebellious, revolutionary. Love gives you wings to soar high." (Osho) Click to tweet
282. "If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation." (Osho) Click to tweet
283. "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity." (Henry Van Dyke) Click to tweet
284. "The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It is focused attention." (Richard Warren) Click to tweet
285. "The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure." (Tibetan Proverb) Click to tweet
286. "Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath." (Emily Dickinson) Click to tweet
287. "Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out." (Wally Lamb) Click to tweet
288. "From understanding comes love." (Rumi) Click to tweet
289. "The moment you think of others, your mind widens." (14th Dalai Lama) Click to tweet
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290. "The connections we make in the course of a life – maybe that’s what heaven is." (Fred Rogers) Click to tweet
291. "Look after each other. Life is short – the fruit of this life is a good character and acts for the common good." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
292. "I have no hopes of meeting a sage. I would be content if i met someone who is a gentlemen." (Confucius) Click to tweet
293. "It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable, wise from experience, calm in action, showing the while much courtesy and consideration in intercourse with others." (Seneca) Click to tweet
294. "When then a man irritates you, you must know that it is your own opinion which has irritated you." (Epictetus) Click to tweet
295. "I’ve come to understand that listening is one of the most important things we can do for one another… if we care, we can listen." (Fred Rogers) Click to tweet
296. "When you judge others, you do not define them; you define yourself." (Earl Nightingale) Click to tweet
297. "The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day." (David Foster Wallace) Click to tweet
298. "No country or people is separate from another; we are all interrelated. We are one." (Jiddu Krishnamurti) Click to tweet
299. "A friend is a gift you give yourself." (Robert Louis Stevenson) Click to tweet
300. "Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?" (Jack Kornfield) Click to tweet
2. "Take up the battle, take it up. It’s yours. This is your life, this is your world." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet
3. "Doctors won’t make you healthy. Nutritionists won’t make you slim. Teachers won’t make you smart. Gurus won’t make you calm. Mentors won’t make you rich. Trainers won’t make you fit. Ultimately, you have to take responsibility. Save yourself." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
4. "You will not get what you want, you will get what you need." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
5. "The future belongs to people who can think, hustle, and create." (Ed Latimore) Click to tweet
6. "The best fighter is never angry." (Lao Tzu) Click to tweet
7. "We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary." (Alan Watts) Click to tweet
8. "Only that you do the right thing, nothing else matters." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
9. "All of us are alive because someone took care of us when we were small." (Aaron Thier) Click to tweet
10. "Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us." (Leo Tolstoy) Click to tweet
11. "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Click to tweet
12. "The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self." (Fred Rogers) Click to tweet
13. "Too many people believe that everything must be pleasurable in life, which makes them constantly search for distractions and short-circuits the learning process." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet
14. "The closer you are to the truth, the more silent you become inside." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
15. "Understand: the future belongs to groups that are fluid, fast, and nonlinear." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet
16. "The inspired minority triumphs over the inert masses." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Click to tweet
17. "If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet
18. "What you are being challenged by may be the very thing you’ve been waiting for." (Iyanla Vanzant) Click to tweet
19. "Extreme people get extreme results." (Sam Altman) Click to tweet
20. "Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art." (Susan Sontag) Click to tweet
21. "Sing the song that only you can sing, write the book that only you can write, build the product that only you can build… live the life that only you can live." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
22. "One of the main reasons people fall short of their potential is they care more about looking good than getting better. Excellence is the product of high aspirations and low ego." (Adam Grant) Click to tweet
23. "Our ambition should not be to win but to play with our full effort. Our intention is not to be thanked or recognized, but to help and to do what we think is right. Our focus is not on what happens to us but on how we respond. In this, we will find contentment and resilience." (Ryan Holiday) Click to tweet
24. "The only zen you’ll find on mountain tops is the zen you bring up there with you." (Alan Watts) Click to tweet
25. "The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are." (Joseph Campbell) Click to tweet
26. "The day a man becomes superior to pleasure, he will also be superior to pain." (Seneca) Click to tweet
27. "You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
28. "A man when he has done a good act, does not call out for others to come and see, but he goes on to another act, as a vine goes on to produce again the grapes in season." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
29. "It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it’s pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it." (Alice Walker) Click to tweet
30. "In the age of instant gratification, those who can endure discomfort are the most free." (Alex Sauer) Click to tweet
31. "The mediocre man consumes. The ordinary man seeks. The great man creates. The superior man does the right thing." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
32. "As soon as we free ourselves from the mirage of hurrying time, we are alive again, as in childhood, to the ecstasies of ordinary life." (Alan Watts) Click to tweet
33. "My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear merely what is necessary, still less conceal it… but love it." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
34. "He is the man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head." (G.K. Chesterton) Click to tweet
35. "Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors." (Fred Rogers) Click to tweet
36. "Our society is much more interested in information than wonder, in noise rather than silence… and i feel that we need a lot more wonder and a lot more silence in our lives." (Fred Rogers) Click to tweet
37. "First stop lying, then start speaking the truth." (Jordan Peterson) Click to tweet
38. "I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free." (Charles Dickens) Click to tweet
39. "To be calm is the highest achievement of the self." (Zen Proverb) Click to tweet
40. "Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular." (Roy T. Bennett) Click to tweet
41. "Love the sinner and hate the sin." (Augustine of Hippo) Click to tweet
42. "This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time." (Tyler Durden) Click to tweet
43. "Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, “what are you doing for others?”" (Martin Luther King Jr.) Click to tweet
44. "You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
45. "My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet
46. "Only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet
47. "Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law." (Immanuel Kant) Click to tweet
48. "I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble." (Helen Keller) Click to tweet
49. "What i’m looking for is not out there, it is in me." (Helen Keller) Click to tweet
50. "It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell." (Buddha) Click to tweet
51. "Gossip dies when it reaches the ears of a wise and secure person." (Wesley Snipes) Click to tweet
52. "You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak." (George Clooney) Click to tweet
53. "You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants a magical solution to their problem, and everyone refuses to believe in magic." (Alice in Wonderland) Click to tweet
54. "There is no hurry, and in a way there is no future. It is all here – so take it easy, take your time, and get acquainted with it." (Alan Watts) Click to tweet
55. "The salvation of mankind depends upon independent thinkers directing their thoughts rightly." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Click to tweet
56. "If i’d followed all the rules, i’d never have gotten anywhere." (Marilyn Monroe) Click to tweet
57. "You’re only given a little spark of madness; you mustn’t lose it." (Robin Williams) Click to tweet
58. "Everything is my fault." (Tom Bilyeu) Click to tweet
59. "A true man hates no one." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Click to tweet
60. "Above all, try something." (Franklin D. Roosevelt) Click to tweet
61. "Stay humble or be humbled."Click to tweet
62. "It’s weird not to be weird." (John Lennon) Click to tweet
63. "Beauty will save the world." (Fyodor Dostoevsky) Click to tweet
64. "Freedom lies in being bold." (Robert Frost) Click to tweet
65. "Whatever you feel you become." (Osho) Click to tweet
66. "Existence wants you to be you." (Osho) Click to tweet
67. "Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it." (Epictetus) Click to tweet
68. "Only the autodidacts are free." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) Click to tweet
69. "What worries you, masters you." (John Locke) Click to tweet
70. "Great intellects are skeptical." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
71. "I am responsible for what i see." (Gabby Bernstein) Click to tweet
72. "Don’t settle, and don’t struggle." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
73. "Solitude is the school of genius." (Edward Gibbon) Click to tweet
74. "The right time is always right now." (Casey Neistat) Click to tweet
75. "Inner peace is the ultimate luxury." (Carlos Del Valle) Click to tweet
76. "To understand is to know what to do." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Click to tweet
77. "The soul is awakened through service." (Erica Jong) Click to tweet
78. "The things you own end up owning you." (Chuck Palahniuk) Click to tweet
79. "Only the present moment contains life." (Thich Nhat Hanh) Click to tweet
80. "Love is the goal, life is the journey." (Osho) Click to tweet
81. "Patience is the greatest of all virtues." (Cato The Elder) Click to tweet
82. "Things worth having are worth waiting for." (Paulo Coelho) Click to tweet
83. "The world just wants your authentic truth." (Gabby Bernstein) Click to tweet
84. "The shadows are as important as the light." (Charlotte Bronte) Click to tweet
85. "Live the life you want other people to live." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
86. "The struggle ends when the gratitude begins." (Neale Donald Walsch) Click to tweet
87. "Conquer yourself and the world lies at your feet." (Augustine of Hippo) Click to tweet
88. "Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
89. "Getting over yourself offers exponential returns." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet
90. "Defensiveness is weakness. Vulnerability is strength." (Justin Kan) Click to tweet
91. "I’m proud of you. I hope that you are proud of you too." (Fred Rogers) Click to tweet
92. "Being poor is not having too little, it is wanting more." (Seneca) Click to tweet
93. "Never lose hope, my heart. Miracles dwell in the invisible." (Rumi) Click to tweet
94. "As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom." (Marie Von Ebner) Click to tweet
95. "To shut your eyes is to travel." (Emily Dickinson) Click to tweet
96. "What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." (Jane Goodall) Click to tweet
97. "Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly." (G.K. Chesterton) Click to tweet
98. "Instructions for living a life: pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it." (Mary Oliver) Click to tweet
99. "There is no strength without adversity and no change without courage." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet
100. "A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet
101. "Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you’ve got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet
102. "Your greatest struggles become your greatest victories." (Joe De Sana) Click to tweet
103. "Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion." (Jack Kerouac) Click to tweet
104. "The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can." (Neil Gaiman) Click to tweet
105. "Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center. Big, undreamed-of things – the people on the edge see them first." (Kurt Vonnegut) Click to tweet
106. "What if people thought about their life not in terms of what they’ve accomplished or accumulated or experienced, but in terms of the effects they’ve had on others." (Neil Strauss) Click to tweet
107. "Shoot for the top, always. You know you’ll never make it, but what’s the fun if you don’t shoot for the top? Ursula k." (Le Guin) Click to tweet
108. "Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming." (Alice Walker) Click to tweet
109. "Get a move on… don’t worry whether anyone will give you credit for it… be satisfied with even the smallest progress, and treat the outcome of it all as unimportant." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
110. "Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly." (Franz Kafka) Click to tweet
111. "As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has – or ever will have – something inside that is unique to all time. It’s our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression." (Fred Rogers) Click to tweet
112. "From the time you were very little, you’ve had people who have smiled you into smiling, people who have talked you into talking, sung you into singing, loved you into loving. Let’s take some time to think of those extra special people." (Fred Rogers) Click to tweet
113. "If you have the courage to put your intellectual integrity before your reputation, nothing can break you." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) Click to tweet
114. "A man who really wants to be free has to accept immense responsibilities. He cannot dump his responsibilities on anybody else." (Osho) Click to tweet
115. "You create yourself moment to moment. You are not born as a fixed entity, but only as a infinite potentiality." (Osho) Click to tweet
116. "You really can change the world if you care enough." (Marian Wright Edelman) Click to tweet
117. "Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet." (Stephen Hawking) Click to tweet
118. "What if everything you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for." (Justin Perry) Click to tweet
119. "If someone says you’re weird, say “thank you”." (Ellen DeGeneres) Click to tweet
120. "Rich people plan for three generations. Poor people plan for saturday night." (Gloria Steinem) Click to tweet
121. "You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks." (Winston Churchill) Click to tweet
122. "The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That’s all you need to know." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
123. "The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing." (Oscar Wilde) Click to tweet
124. "Virtue is what you do when nobody is looking. The rest is marketing." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) Click to tweet
125. "I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it." (Edgar Allan Poe) Click to tweet
126. "In heaven, all the interesting people are missing." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
127. "To see a candle’s light one must take it into a dark place. Ursula k." (Le Guin) Click to tweet
128. "The fools in life want things fast and easy – money, success, attention." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet
129. "If you are living for the weekend you are already dead." (Bill Masur) Click to tweet
130. "You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down." (Toni Morrison) Click to tweet
131. "Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself." (C.S. Lewis) Click to tweet
132. "Anything of quality has gone through a distillation process."Click to tweet
133. "Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
134. "Cling to certainty, if it makes you feel better. Just be aware that what you’re clinging to is the opposite of life." (Neil Strauss) Click to tweet
135. "The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a struggle. Hiding what is shameful is itself a form of shame." (Mark Manson) Click to tweet
136. "Not being able to govern events, i govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me." (Michel de Montaigne) Click to tweet
137. "The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and objectionable." (Plato) Click to tweet
138. "I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him." (Booker T. Washington) Click to tweet
139. "You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass." (Bruce Lee) Click to tweet
140. "People are living just to impress. They must be really very poor inside, because only people suffering from inferiority complex want to impress others. A really superior person never compares himself with anybody else." (Osho) Click to tweet
141. "Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own, for what could be more fitting?" (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
142. "We spend far more time doing what’s easy than doing what’s right." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet
143. "Failure hurts but passes quickly. Regret hurts forever." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet
144. "If you are easily provoked you are easily controlled." (The Stoic Emperor) Click to tweet
145. "Finding information is easier than ever. Filtering information is harder than ever. We are bombarded with irrelevant data and unsolicited stimulation. Choosing what to ignore is as important as choosing what to pay attention to." (The Stoic Emperor) Click to tweet
146. "We are slaves to distraction, incessantly active, and are ever striving to become." (Jiddu Krishnamurti) Click to tweet
147. "When the self is not occupied with its own becoming there is an unpremeditated clarity, a deep ecstasy." (Jiddu Krishnamurti) Click to tweet
148. "It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly." (Bertrand Russell) Click to tweet
149. "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." (Charles Kingsley) Click to tweet
150. "Don’t feel entitled to anything you didn’t sweat and struggle for." (Marian Wright Edelman) Click to tweet
151. "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Click to tweet
152. "The things that we understand, create silence. The things that we do not, create emotion." (Kapil Gupta) Click to tweet
153. "There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves." (Byron Katie) Click to tweet
154. "Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy." (Robert Heinlein) Click to tweet
155. "Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet
156. "I want to age like sea glass. Smoothed by tides but not broken. I want my hard edges to soften. I want to ride the waves and go with the flow. I want to catch a wave and let it carry me to where i belong. I want to be picked up and held gently by those who delight in my well earned patina and appreciate the changes i went through to achieve that beauty. I want to enjoy the journey and always remember that if you give the ocean something breakable it will turn it into something beautiful. I want to age like sea glass."Click to tweet
157. "One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again." (C.S. Lewis) Click to tweet
158. "The most expensive way to pay for anything is with time." (Brian Norgard) Click to tweet
159. "The person asking the questions is sometimes more valuable than the person providing the answers." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet
160. "You have to be willing to look like an idiot in the short term to look like a genius in the long term." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet
161. "The stupider you are, the smarter you think you are, and vice versa." (Richard Feynman) Click to tweet
162. "The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month." (Fyodor Dostoevsky) Click to tweet
163. "The modern mind is overstimulated and the modern body is understimulated and overfed. Meditation, exercise, and fasting restore an ancient balance." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
164. "The amateur avoids boredom, pain, discomfort, loneliness, fear. The wise keep going no matter what." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
165. "Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation." (Augustine of Hippo) Click to tweet
166. "When you go through life with preferences but don’t let your happiness depend on any one of them, then you’re awake." (Anthony de Mello) Click to tweet
167. "If a man can reduce his needs to zero, he is truly free: there is nothing that can be taken from him; nothing can hurt him." (John Boyd) Click to tweet
168. "If you live according to nature, you will never be poor. If you live according to opinion, you will never be rich." (Epicurus) Click to tweet
169. "What is rare is not raw talent, skill, or even confidence, but humility, diligence, and self-awareness." (Ryan Holiday) Click to tweet
170. "There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." (Peter F. Drucker) Click to tweet
171. "For water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow." (Plutarch) Click to tweet
172. "He who subdues his temper vanquishes his greatest enemy." (Publilius Syrus) Click to tweet
173. "Those who are wise won’t be busy, and those who are too busy can’t be wise." (Lin Yutang) Click to tweet
174. "He who stands on tiptoe doesn’t stand firm. He who rushes ahead doesn’t go far." (Lao Tzu) Click to tweet
175. "Life isn’t supposed to be fair, much less bend to your every whim." (David Goggins) Click to tweet
176. "Wherever the past is dropped away and safety abandoned, life is renewed." (Alan Watts) Click to tweet
177. "The whole point of life is to be fully aware of it as it happens." (Alan Watts) Click to tweet
178. "The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in 10 minutes after the big picture has started, and no one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues." (Terry Pratchett) Click to tweet
179. "To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life." (T.S. Eliot) Click to tweet
180. "Relentlessly prune bullshit, don’t wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That’s what you do when life is short." (Paul Graham) Click to tweet
181. "Life can be improved by adding, or by subtracting. The world pushes you to add, because that benefits them. But the secret is to focus on subtracting." (Derek Sivers) Click to tweet
182. "If you increase your desire for happiness, you’ll likely lessen your tolerance for sadness and pain – and become less happy. But if you expand your capacity to tolerate sadness and pain, you’ll expand your capacity to enjoy life." (Neil Strauss) Click to tweet
183. "When building habits, choose consistency over content. The best book is the one you can’t put down. The best exercise is the one you enjoy doing every day. The best health food is the one you find tasty. The best work is the work you’d do for free." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
184. "The secret to life and the greatest success strategy of all is to love all of it and fear none of it." (Jon Gordon) Click to tweet
185. "The fates guide the person who accepts them and hinder the person who resists them." (Cleanthes) Click to tweet
186. "The secret to life is to go deep, not wide. Go all in." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
187. "Everything happens when it needs to happen; everyone is always where they need to be." (Iyanla Vanzant) Click to tweet
188. "To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
189. "Life is all about ‘not knowing’ and then doing something anyway. All of life is like this. All of it." (Mark Manson) Click to tweet
190. "Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest." (Herman Hesse) Click to tweet
191. "The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much." (William Hazlitt) Click to tweet
192. "99% of information is noise. 99% of interactions are fake. 99% of opportunities are traps. Life is a search for the 1%." (Johnny Uzan) Click to tweet
193. "Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness." (Zhuang Zhou) Click to tweet
194. "Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward." (Pema Chodron) Click to tweet
195. "To journey happily may well be better than to arrive successfully." (Jordan Peterson) Click to tweet
196. "Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace." (Robert J. Sawyer) Click to tweet
197. "Enjoy the process along with the proceeds, because the process is where you live." (Charlie Munger) Click to tweet
198. "The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open." (Chuck Palahniuk) Click to tweet
199. "If you make where you are going more important than where you are, there may be no point in going." (Alan Watts) Click to tweet
200. "The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it." (George Santayana) Click to tweet
201. "Happiness is the absence of desire. It’s what you feel when you no longer want to change your state." (James Clear) Click to tweet
202. "It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
203. "No man is free who is not master of himself." (Epictetus) Click to tweet
204. "If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires." (Epicurus) Click to tweet
205. "You don’t need to be gifted. You just need to have enough commitment to accept being bad at something for as long as it takes to get good at it." (Neil Strauss) Click to tweet
206. "Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life." (William Faulkner) Click to tweet
207. "If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live." (Lin Yutang) Click to tweet
208. "There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence." (Lin Yutang) Click to tweet
209. "Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence." (Alan Watts) Click to tweet
210. "A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering." (14th Dalai Lama) Click to tweet
211. "Stress is caused by being “here” but wanting to be “there”." (Eckhart Tolle) Click to tweet
212. "Everyone is not your assignment. That’s why you’re drained." (Wesley Snipes) Click to tweet
213. "The faster you accept reality, the faster you find peace of mind." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
214. "Happiness is the process of becoming your ideal self." (Mark Manson) Click to tweet
215. "The superior man follows nobody else’s path." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Click to tweet
216. "If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere." (Frank A. Clark) Click to tweet
217. "Competency will make you a living. Creativity will make you rich." (Brian Norgard) Click to tweet
218. "Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
219. "Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
220. "Don’t strive to be the best. It creates an illusion of an endpoint – and a delusion that the goal is to be superior to others. Strive to be better. The person you’re competing with is your past self, and the bar you’re setting is for your future self." (Adam Grant) Click to tweet
221. "Most successful people are people you’ve never heard of. They want it that way. It keeps them sober. It helps them do their jobs." (Ryan Holiday) Click to tweet
222. "Success isn’t about how your life looks to others. It’s about how it feels to you. That’s what it means to be true to yourself." (Michelle Obama) Click to tweet
223. "I used to think success meant having no problems. Now i know that it means being capable of handling any. This is a subtle but key difference. The former is a wish for ease. The latter is a privilege of strength." (Ed Latimore) Click to tweet
224. "The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything." (Warren Buffett) Click to tweet
225. "If people around you don’t think what you’re doing is a bit strange, maybe it’s not strange enough." (Patrick Collison) Click to tweet
226. "We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training." (Archilochus) Click to tweet
227. "Do the best one can. Do it over again. Then still improve, even if ever so slightly, those retouches." (Marguerite Yourcenar) Click to tweet
228. "In adversity, remember to keep an even mind." (Horace Mann) Click to tweet
229. "For if it is not right to do it, avoid doing the thing; but if it is right, why are you afraid of those who shall find fault wrongly?" (Epictetus) Click to tweet
230. "There are three ingredients for success – aggressiveness, timing and skill. If you show enough aggressiveness at the right time, you don’t need that much skill." (Howard Marks) Click to tweet
231. "Deep down, we know that what matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win, too." (Fred Rogers) Click to tweet
232. "Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing." (Lao Tzu) Click to tweet
233. "If you aren’t scared of spending time alone, you’re already halfway to success."Click to tweet
234. "The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet
235. "Stop caring what other people think and focus on being the best version of yourself possible." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet
236. "If you want exponential returns, replace the need to be proven right with the need to achieve the best outcome possible." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet
237. "Amateurs focus on the short term. Professionals focus on the long term." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet
238. "Amateurs want to arrive. Pros want to get better." (Jeff Goins) Click to tweet
239. "Amateurs want to be noticed. Pros want to be remembered." (Jeff Goins) Click to tweet
240. "We cannot lead anyone farther than we have been ourselves." (John C. Maxwell) Click to tweet
241. "The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet
242. "Use courage and wisdom, not labor, to make money." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) Click to tweet
243. "The only living works are those which have drained much of the author’s own life into them." (Samuel Butler) Click to tweet
244. "Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others." (Jack Welch) Click to tweet
245. "Study as if you know nothing. Work as if you can solve anything." (James Clear) Click to tweet
246. "If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?" (John Wooden) Click to tweet
247. "It’s not what the world holds for you. It is what you bring to it." (Lucy Maud Montgomery) Click to tweet
248. "There’s no tips and tricks [… ] it’s just a lot of focused work." (Lilly Singh) Click to tweet
249. "Most of the hard work happens in the shadows." (Sahil Lavingia) Click to tweet
250. "Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens." (Jordan Peterson) Click to tweet
251. "This is the real secret to life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play." (Alan Watts) Click to tweet
252. "After all work is still the best way of escaping from life." (Gustave Flaubert) Click to tweet
253. "Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret." (Baltasar Gracián) Click to tweet
254. "A country’s assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) Click to tweet
255. "No one will outwork me, no one." (Dwayne Johnson) Click to tweet
256. "The universe always falls in love with a stubborn heart." (Paulo Coelho) Click to tweet
257. "The best things are the most difficult." (Plutarch) Click to tweet
258. "True change is within; leave the outside as it is." (14th Dalai Lama) Click to tweet
259. "Imagine who you could be, and then aim single-mindedly at that." (Jordan Peterson) Click to tweet
260. "If you dare to do the most difficult thing you can conceptualize, your life will work out better than if you do anything else." (Jordan Peterson) Click to tweet
261. "I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
262. "It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
263. "Today’s hot pain is tomorrow’s cold wisdom." (The Stoic Emperor) Click to tweet
264. "The only way that we can live is if we grow. The only way we can grow is if we change. The only way we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we are exposed is if we throw ourselves into the open." (C. JoyBell C.) Click to tweet
265. "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again … who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly." (Theodore Roosevelt) Click to tweet
266. "The best thing to get addicted to is progress. Physical, mental, whatever. Once you get hooked on the feeling of winning, your life will make a dramatic change." (Ed Latimore) Click to tweet
267. "The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win." (Roger Bannister) Click to tweet
268. "Death may be close at hand; death may be far off. Transcend death with no-thought, no-idea. Do what you need to do, with no regret." (Awa Kenzô) Click to tweet
269. "Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant." (Viktor E. Frankl) Click to tweet
270. "It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action." (Lin Yutang) Click to tweet
271. "Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves." (Charlotte Bronte) Click to tweet
272. "No matter who you are, who your parents are or were, where you live, what you do for a living, or how much money you have, you’re probably living at about 40 percent of your true capability." (David Goggins) Click to tweet
273. "Be more than motivated, be more than driven, become literally obsessed to the point where people think you’re fucking nuts." (David Goggins) Click to tweet
274. "True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care — with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world." (David Foster Wallace) Click to tweet
275. "To be, in a word, unborable… it is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish." (David Foster Wallace) Click to tweet
276. "You can win a lot in life just by being the last one to give up." (James Clear) Click to tweet
277. "Pleasure consumes us, work strengthens us. Let us choose." (Charles Baudelaire) Click to tweet
278. "Better to be without logic than without feeling." (Charlotte Bronte) Click to tweet
279. "Never chase love. If it isn’t given freely, it is worthless." (Paulo Coelho) Click to tweet
280. "When there is love you have nothing more to do. Then where you are, you have heaven; then all seeking comes to an end." (Jiddu Krishnamurti) Click to tweet
281. "Love makes you rebellious, revolutionary. Love gives you wings to soar high." (Osho) Click to tweet
282. "If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation." (Osho) Click to tweet
283. "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity." (Henry Van Dyke) Click to tweet
284. "The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It is focused attention." (Richard Warren) Click to tweet
285. "The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure." (Tibetan Proverb) Click to tweet
286. "Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath." (Emily Dickinson) Click to tweet
287. "Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out." (Wally Lamb) Click to tweet
288. "From understanding comes love." (Rumi) Click to tweet
289. "The moment you think of others, your mind widens." (14th Dalai Lama) Click to tweet
290. "The connections we make in the course of a life – maybe that’s what heaven is." (Fred Rogers) Click to tweet
291. "Look after each other. Life is short – the fruit of this life is a good character and acts for the common good." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
292. "I have no hopes of meeting a sage. I would be content if i met someone who is a gentlemen." (Confucius) Click to tweet
293. "It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable, wise from experience, calm in action, showing the while much courtesy and consideration in intercourse with others." (Seneca) Click to tweet
294. "When then a man irritates you, you must know that it is your own opinion which has irritated you." (Epictetus) Click to tweet
295. "I’ve come to understand that listening is one of the most important things we can do for one another… if we care, we can listen." (Fred Rogers) Click to tweet
296. "When you judge others, you do not define them; you define yourself." (Earl Nightingale) Click to tweet
297. "The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day." (David Foster Wallace) Click to tweet
298. "No country or people is separate from another; we are all interrelated. We are one." (Jiddu Krishnamurti) Click to tweet
299. "A friend is a gift you give yourself." (Robert Louis Stevenson) Click to tweet
300. "Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?" (Jack Kornfield) Click to tweet
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