Quotes

Here is a collection of quotes I like and refer to as a source of motivation, inspiration, and reflection. I have tried to include accurate attributions, but apologies in advance for any errors.

"You are the average of the five people you associate with most." - Jim Rohn

"To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift." - Steve Prefontaine

"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?" - Robert Schuller

"We suffer more often in imagination than we do in reality." - Seneca

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" - Aristotle

"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." - Blaise Pascal

"Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life." - Jerzy Gregory

"Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to." - George Saunders

"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude" - Aldous Huxley

"A man would do nothing, if he waited until he could do it so well that no one would find fault with what he has done." - Cardinal Newman

"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world." - Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)

"There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do." - Bill Watterson

"If a man does not have sauce, then he is lost. But the same man can get lost in the sauce." - Gucci Mane

"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well" - Alfred Adler

"We are what we pretend to be." - Kurt Vonnegut

"It is easier to act yourself into a new way of thinking, than it is to think yourself into a new way of acting." - Millard Fuller

"Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn't matter." - Marcus Aurelius

"The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important." - Bob Knight

"An entire sea of water can't sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship." - Goi Nasu

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein

"It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do." - Steve Jobs

"Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away" - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

"People say that what we are seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think this is what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive" - Joseph Campbell

"Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination" - Oliver Sacks

"For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for right time to do something? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up all the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. "Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you." - Tim Ferriss

"Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence." - Alan Watts

"You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle." - Eckhart Tolle

"When the pressure is on you don't rise to the occasion, you fall to your highest level of preparation" - Chris Voss

"Humility is a knowledge of our weaknesses, confidence is a knowledge of our strengths, and ego is something dangerous with none of the former and a skewed sense of the latter." - The Daily Stoic

"Not my circus, not my monkeys"

"Remember that no matter what the difficulty is, no matter where it is, no matter who is affected, you have no patient but yourself; you have nothing to do but convince yourself of the truth which you desire to see manifest." - Charles Haanel

"The goal isn't more money. The goal is living life on my own terms." - Chris Brogan

"Don't take criticism from someone you wouldn't take advice from"

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about" - Charles Kingsley

"Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom." - Jim Rohn

"There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in." -Desmond Tutu

"Now that your worry has proved such an unlucrative business, why not find a better job?" - Hafiz

"Confidence is not a belief in success. It's a comfort with failure" - Mark Manson

"All evils are caused by insufficient knowledge" - David Deutsch

"Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money." - Nat Friedman