“To be Jedi is to face the truth, and choose. Give off light, or darkness, Padawan. Be a candle, or the night.” — Yoda
“If no mistake have you made, yet losing you are, a different game you should play.” — Yoda
“It is the life of perfection which seems to be incomplete, and of fullness which seems to be empty.” — Bruce Lee
“The superior man lets himself be guided; he does not go ahead blindly, but learns from the situation what is demanded of him and then follows.” — Bruce Lee
“To be humble to superiors is duty; to equals is courtesy; to inferiors is nobleness; and to all, safety!” — Bruce Lee
“A goal is not always meant to be reached. It often serves simply as something to aim at.” — Bruce Lee
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” — Bruce Lee
“Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.” — Bruce Lee
“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” — Bruce Lee
“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” — Bruce Lee
“You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Be water, my friend.” — Bruce Lee
“I begin to speak only when I’m certain what I’ll say isn’t better left unsaid.” — Cato the Younger
“People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.” — Seneca
“Freedom isn’t secured by filling up on your heart’s desire but by removing your desire.” — Epictetus
“Choose not to be harmed, and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed, and you haven’t been.” — Marcus Aurelius
“We are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it.” — Seneca
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” ― Epicurus
“You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” — Marcus Aurelius
“Men are disturbed not by things but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.” — Epictetus
“At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead. The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.” ― Suzanne Collins
“Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.” ― Suzanne Collins
“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses.” ― Suzanne Collins
“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.” ― Suzanne Collins
“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.” ― Suzanne Collins
“Perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.” ― J.K. Rowling
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” ― J.K. Rowling
“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” ― J.K. Rowling
“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.” ― J.K. Rowling
“People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.” ― J.K. Rowling
“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.” ― J.K. Rowling
“You do care. You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.” — J.K. Rowling
“We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.” ― J.K. Rowling
“The truth — it is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.” ― J.K. Rowling
“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.” ― J.K. Rowling
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” ― J.K. Rowling
“We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.” — J.K. Rowling
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” — J.K. Rowling
“At the end of the day, at the end of the week, at the end of my life, I want to say I contributed more than I criticized.” — Brené Brown
“Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.” — Brené Brown
“Just because someone isn’t willing or able to love us, it doesn’t mean that we are unlovable.” — Brené Brown
“Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.” — Brené Brown
“The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It’s our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.” — Brené Brown
“Compassion is not a virtue — it is a commitment. It’s not something we have or don’t have — it’s something we choose to practice.” — Brené Brown
“If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal!” — Brené Brown
“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.” — Brené Brown
“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.” — Brené Brown
“You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.” — Brené Brown
“The path of least resistance is a terrible teacher.” — Ryan Holiday
“Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.” — Ryan Holiday
“We forget: In life, it doesn’t matter what happens to you or where you came from. It matters what you do with what happens and what you’ve been given.” ― Ryan Holiday
“There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.” ― Ryan Holiday
“Winning is not enough. People can get lucky and win. People can be assholes and win. Anyone can win. But not everyone is the best possible version of themselves.” ― Ryan Holiday
“You don’t have to always be amazing. You do always have to show up. What matters is sticking around for the next at bat.” — Ryan Holiday
“It doesn’t matter if you’re tired or well-rested. It doesn’t matter if it’s hard or easy. If you’re cold or warm. What counts, whether you’re a kid or a king or anything in between, is that you do the right thing.” — Ryan Holiday
“There is nothing worth doing that is not scary. There is no one who has achieved greatness without wrestling with their own doubts, anxieties, limitations, and demons.” — Ryan Holiday
“There is no better definition of a Stoic: to have but not want, to enjoy without needing.” — Ryan Holiday
“Stillness is what aims the archer’s arrow. It inspires new ideas. It sharpens perspective and illuminates connections.” — Ryan Holiday
“By seeing each day and each situation as a kind of training exercise, the stakes suddenly become a lot lower. The way you interpret your own mistakes and the mistakes of others is suddenly a lot more generous.” — Ryan Holiday
“People claim to want to do something that matters, yet they measure themselves against things that don’t, and track their progress not in years but in microseconds. They want to make something timeless, but they focus instead on immediate payoffs and instant gratification.” — Ryan Holiday
“Control your perceptions. Direct your actions properly. Willingly accept what’s outside your control.” — Ryan Holiday
“Impressing people is utterly different from being truly impressive.” — Ryan Holiday
“The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.” — Ryan Holiday
“When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?” — Ryan Holiday
“The moment you talk about work/life balance you already missed the balance. Work and life overlap.” — Seth Godin
“It’s clearly more fun to make the rules than to follow them.” — Seth Godin
“You don’t have to settle. It’s a choice you get to make every day.” — Seth Godin
“You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.” — Seth Godin
“The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.” — Seth Godin
“The key to success is to find a way to stand out – to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.” — Seth Godin
“The job isn’t to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.” — Seth Godin
“You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it’s getting raised regardless.” — Seth Godin
“The reason they want you to fit in is that once you do, then they can ignore you.” — Seth Godin
“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” — Seth Godin
“If failure is not an option, then neither is success.” — Seth Godin
“Go ahead, do something impossible.” — Seth Godin
“Life is like skiing. The goal is not to get to the bottom of the hill. It’s to have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets.” — Seth Godin
“Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.” ― Seth Godin
“The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.” ― Seth Godin
“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.” ― Seth Godin
“The Dip is the long stretch between beginner’s luck and real accomplishment.” ― Seth Godin
“Just about everything you learned in school about life is wrong, but the wrongest thing might very well be this: Being well-rounded is the secret to success.” ― Seth Godin
“You’re astonishing. How dare you waste it.” ― Seth Godin
“Winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt.” ― Seth Godin
“Never quit something with great long-term potential just because you can’t deal with the stress of the moment.” ― Seth Godin
“A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.” ― Seth Godin
“All anxiety is is experiencing failure in advance.” — Seth Godin
“The job is not the work. The job is what you do when you are told what to do. Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it.” — Seth Godin
“The secret to being wrong isn’t to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn’t fatal.” ― Seth Godin
“Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.” — Seth Godin
“Everyone who can [read] this has more power than they think they do. The question is, what are you going to do with that power?” — Seth Godin
“Writer’s block is a myth, a recent invention, a cultural malady. […] It doesn’t matter if anyone reads it, buys it, sponsors it or shares it. It matters that you show up.” — Seth Godin
“You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training. […] Every great company, every great brand, and every great career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.” — Seth Godin
“In many mature markets, it takes 10,000 hours of preparation to win because most people give up after 5,000 hours. That’s the only magic thing about 10k… it’s a hard number to reach, so most people bail.” — Seth Godin
“The long way is the shortcut.” — Seth Godin
“You have only two good choices: Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.” — Seth Godin
“It takes time to develop your gut, but once it’s developed, don’t listen to anything else.” — Naval Ravikant
“Your success in life depends on your ability to make good decisions. Your happiness depends on your ability to not care about the outcomes.” — Naval Ravikant
“People think they can’t change themselves, but they can. People think they can change others, but they can’t.” — Naval Ravikant
“If you aren’t willing to be mocked, you’ll never be able to lead.” — Naval Ravikant
“The secret to a happy relationship is two happy people.” — Naval Ravikant
“Read the books they want to ban.” — Naval Ravikant
“If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.” — Naval Ravikant
“You’re spending time to save money when you should be spending money to save time.” — Naval Ravikant
“The more neatly you fit into society, the less free you actually are.” — Naval Ravikant
“The quality of your mind is the quality of your life.” — Naval Ravikant
“The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life.” — Naval Ravikant
“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
“Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.” — Naval Ravikant
“Work as hard as you can. Even though who you work with and what you work on are more important than how hard you work.” — Naval Ravikant
Reading is faster than listening. Doing is faster than watching.” — Naval Ravikant
“Leverage is a force multiplier for your judgement.” — Naval Ravikant
“All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.” — Naval Ravikant
“The smartest and the most successful people I know started out as losers.” — Naval Ravikant
“Whenever you can in life, if you have the choice, optimize for independence rather than optimize for pay.” — Naval Ravikant
“A great goal in life would be to not have to be in a given place at a given time.” — Naval Ravikant
“Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.” — Naval Ravikant
“To win at a status game, you have to put somebody else down. Avoid status games. They make you into an angry, combative person.” — Naval Ravikant
“It’s very hard to be successful in business if you’re trying to live a well-rounded life.” — Naval Ravikant
“Wisdom is knowing the long-term consequences of your actions.” — Naval Ravikant
“Happiness to me is mainly not suffering, not desiring, not thinking too much about the future or the past, really embracing the present moment and the reality of what is, the way it is.” — Naval Ravikant
“My old definition was ‘freedom to’, freedom to do anything I want. Now I would say that the freedom I’m looking for is internal freedom. It’s ‘freedom from.’” — Naval Ravikant
“If you’re not willing to do a wholesale, 24/7, 100% swap with who that person is, then there is no point in being jealous.” — Naval Ravikant
“Life is a single player game.” — Naval Ravikant
“Find your uncomfortzone.”
“To be outstanding – get comfortable with being uncomfortable.” — Alrik Koudenburg
“So when you feel this time approaching, and your comfort zone’s in view. Stop and think about what you’re feeling, and see if what you’re feeling is true.” — Julie Hebert
“If your circle doesn’t challenge you to grow beyond your comfort zone, then you are definitely in the wrong circle.” — Edmond Mbiaka
“When you go out of your comfort zone and it works, there’s nothing more satisfying.” — Kristen Wiig
In the long run, our comfort zone becomes our uncomfortable zone.” — Charles F. Glassman
“It’s when you begin to think about going to your dream that your dream is always outside of your comfort zone. It’s always beyond what you’ve ever done.” — Bruce Wilkinson
“I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.” — Tan Le
“It’s good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.” — Mary-Louise Parker
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
“As long as you’re uncomfortable, it means you’re growing.” — Ashton Kutcher
“To the degree we’re not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.” — Peter McWilliams
“Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone. If it wasn’t, you would already possess it, would you not?” — Chris Murray
“Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffin, you die.” — Stan Dale
“Great people do things before they’re ready.” — Amy Poehler
“When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.” — Eckhart Tolle
“As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.” — Robin S. Sharma
“A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.” — Lao-Tzu
“Outside of the comfort zone is where the magic happens.”
“A ship in a harbor is safe, but that’s not what a ship is built for.” — John Augustus Shedd
“Great things never came from comfort zones.”
“Comfort is the enemy of achievement.” — Farrah Gray
“A comfort zone is a beautiful place – but nothing ever grows there.”
What you do in your one life will be everything you ever do.” — Niklas Göke
“If you travel because you’re unhappy, you’ll never reach your destination.” — Niklas Göke
“Half of happiness is learning to love everything you don’t have.” — Niklas Göke
“Wanting what makes you happy requires wanting the right things.” — Niklas Göke
“The easiest way to attract what you desire is to deserve what you want.” — Niklas Göke
“Your work should reflect who you are, not what you want your life to be.” — Niklas Göke
“When the outside world is loud, be quiet inside.” — Niklas Göke
“Peace of mind relies on having faith in present-you.” — Niklas Göke
“The only place where we can truly live is the present. It all happens here.” — Niklas Göke
“Reality consists of subjects and verbs. We supply all the adjectives.” — Niklas Göke
“The only way to stay true to who you are is to change every day.” — Niklas Göke
“You don’t need an identity to have a life.” — Niklas Göke
“The more you listen, the smarter you get. Listening leads to learning. The smarter you get, the more you listen. Learning leads to humility.” — Niklas Göke
“Every lesson in life comes at the expense of unlearning another.” — Niklas Göke
“A mistake is only as valuable as the time you spend learning from it.” — Niklas Göke
“Aging won’t free you from stupidity. Only learning will.” — Niklas Göke
“Study the failures of those around you, not the wins of those far away.” — Niklas Göke
“It’s better to be curious than judgmental, and impossible to be both at once.” — Niklas Göke
“Comparison is not just the death of joy, it is also the birth of misery.” — Niklas Göke
“What we learn alone is what we carry into our interactions with others.” — Niklas Göke
“We can’t choose what we’re raised to value, but we can choose to change.” — Niklas Göke
“We should believe more in what we create and less in what we emulate.” — Niklas Göke
“Having a choice matters more than whatever choice you make.” — Niklas Göke
“Freedom is always internal.” — Niklas Göke
“The truth about ourselves is what we choose to believe.” — Niklas Göke
“If you run out of kind words for yourself, stop talking.” — Niklas Göke
“The only person you’ll spend the rest of your life with is you.” — Niklas Göke
“Anger is a hot coal you’re holding, waiting to throw it at somebody.” — Zen proverb
“Whatever people say, there is right, there is wrong. There is nothing in between.” — Hercule Poirot
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.” — Walt Whitman
“Your move, chief.” — Robin Williams
“Don’t be what they made you.” — Wolverine
“Being an entrepreneur is mostly about trusting in your ability to figure it out.” — James Clear
“Death is what gives life meaning.” — The Ancient One
“They will race behind you. They will stumble. They will fall. But in time, they will join you in the sun.” — Jor-El
“Everything around you that you call life, was made up by people that were no smarter than you.” — Steve Jobs
“No matter who you are, no matter what you do, no matter who your audience is: 30 percent will love it, 30 percent will hate it, and 30 percent won’t care. Stick with the people who love you and don’t spend a single second on the rest. Life will be better that way.”
“You must believe in yourself enough to be the person now that others will remember later.” — Greg Plitt
“The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.” — Steven Pressfield
“One is greater than zero.” — Gary Vaynerchuk
“If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.” — Eldridge Cleaver
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs
“You have to make yourself the only person who controls your dreams.” — James Altucher
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” — Benjamin Franklin
“The person who makes it is the person who keeps on going after everyone else has quit.” — Jerry Weintraub
“The moment you accept total responsibility for everything in your life is the moment you claim the power to change anything in your life.” — Hal Elrod
“The safest way to try and get what you want is to try and deserve what you want.” — Charlie Munger
“If you have to take a vacation, never come back.” — Joel Salatin
“Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong.” — Peter Drucker
“If more people valued home above gold, this world would be a merrier place.” — Thorin Oakenshield
“Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once we grow up.” — Picasso
“Always the stairs, never the escalator.” — Casey Neistat
“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” — Sir Ken Robinson
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” — Paulo Coelho
“Sometimes things have to fall apart to make way for better things.” — Ted Mosby
“You should think of the word depressed as ‘deep rest.’ Deep. Rest. Your body needs to be depressed. It needs deep rest from the character that you’ve been trying to play.” — Jim Carrey
“Why do we fall, sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.” — Alfred to Batman
“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost. The old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
“There were always moments when one or the other could have left, but what better thing might follow?”
“Sympathy is free, envy must be earned.”
“I would not say a word — so I don’t accidentally change anything.”
“Take all the time you need.”
“I like studying in big libraries. I need room to think.”
“Whatever money can solve, let it.
“Everything happens for a reason.”
“The days when we least want to exercise are the days we need it the most.”
“We learn for life, not for school.”
“Everyone should know how to set up and run a blog.”
“All you have to do to get the career you want is to figure out the building blocks it requires, then chain them together.”
“Tomorrow’s another day.” — My mom, whenever I was sick, down, broken, or defeated
“If you can go to bed late, you can also get up early.” — My grandma
“My boss used to say: ‘I’ve been producing ‘navy blue’ for 40 years!’ That’s when I knew I needed to get out of there.”
“Nonsense.” — My uncle, about everything that wasn’t one of his priorities
“What you don’t have in your head, you gotta have in your legs.” — My grandma
“When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.” ― Alan Watts
“A real friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” — Anonymous
“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.” ― Walt Whitman
“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching — they are your family.” ― Jim Butcher
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” ― Leo Tolstoy
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien
“A wish for friendship may arise quickly, but friendship does not.” — Aristotle
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs
“Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.” — Booker T. Washington
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.” ― Paulo Coelho
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson
“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” ― Jodi Picoult
“Love is like the wind — you can’t see it but you can feel it.” ― Nicholas Sparks
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ― Robert A. Heinlein
“I destroy my enemies by making them my friends.” — Anonymous
“No one on his deathbed ever said, ‘I wish I had spent more time on my business.’” — Arnold Zack
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Dean Koontz
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” ― Elie Wiesel
“You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.” ― A.A. Milne
