Curious about what your favorite quote is. Motivational, inspirational, reflective, funny - anything.
I'll start: "The man who loves walking will walk further than the man who loves the destination."
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"Our life is what our thoughts make it."
- Marcus Aurelius
"Comparison is the thief of joy" - Roosevelt
"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared" - Machiavelli
"Know thyself, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories" - Sun Tzu
“Wubba lubba dub dub” - Rick Sanchez
Hashem runs the world
Burn the boats.
Never forget the 6 foot man that drowned in the river that was 5 feet deep on average
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, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; 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, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
This is the correct answer
The Man in the Arena. great quote.
This is a hell of a quote to live by. Taught me two things simultaneously:
- Dont be worried about criticism of others, especially those you wouldnt take advice from. Most are envious of the courage you possess at some level, those that try to pull you down only do so if they worry about you being above them, never below
- Dont spend too much time criticizing others. Easy to sit on your ass and think 'wow Zuckerberg/Bezos/whoever' is an idiot for some business move and monday morning QB everything. Fact is your opinion means jack shit until you can display true expertise in that area as a peer
Came to write this one. +1 SB
"Hard work beats talent".
…”when talent isn’t working hard”
…”when talent isn’t working hard”
anything said by ralph waldo trine or ralph waldo emerson
seri
You can deny reality, but you can't deny the consequences of denying reality.
henry ford had a bunch of good quotes. he kept trine in his back pocket
"People often overestimate what they can achieve in a year and underestimate what they can achieve in 10 years"
"Give a monkey a fish, feed the monkey for a day. Teach the monkey to commit tax evasion, money laundering, and fraud, feed the monkey for a lifetime."
- Nelson Mandela (1969)
A couple of my favorites:
“Everyone must choose one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret”
“Only the disciplined are free. To be undisciplined is to be a slave to your passions”
“All of us are self made, but only the successful admit it”
“If you think the price of winning is too high, wait until you get the bill from regret”
last one
never heard second to last one, good stuff mate
Apollo Creed : He's hooking. He's hooking. He's hooking! Damn, Rock, Come on! What's the matter with you?
Rocky Balboa : Tomorrow. Let's do it tomorrow.
Apollo Creed : There is no tomorrow! THERE IS NO TOMORROW! THERE IS NO TOMORROW!
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
or
"Well Jules, the funny thing about my back is that it's located on my cock...."
Was hoping to see some Superbad here, GOAT movie for me
“You’re always gonna have problems in life, make sure they’re good ones to have”
Gandalf: "So do I, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." (The Fellowship of the Ring)
Pressure makes diamonds 🔥
"Walk quietly and carry a big stick."
"Beware the quiet man. For while others speak, he watches. And while others act, he plans. And when they finally rest...he strikes."
"You only see the pack of the man in front of you, not your own" (paraphrased since it's old Latin)
"The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe."
"Don't hate the player, hate the game"
"Life is a sexually transmitted disease with a 100% mortality rate."
amen
Happy Holy Week!
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
-
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
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If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
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If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
- Rudyard Kipling
@ Wimbledon before going out onto the main court
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." -Nelson Mandela
"If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success." - James Cameron
"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." - Steve Prefontaine
'Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of the Lord' - Deuteronomy 8:3
and Matthew 4:4 too
"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein
"When health is absent, Wisdom cannot reveal itself, Art cannot manifest, Strength cannot fight, Wealth becomes useless, and Intelligence cannot be applied." - Herophilies
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"To learn to love is to be stripped of all love until you are wholly without love because until you have gone naked and afraid into this cold dark place where all love is taken from you you will not know that you are wholly within love." - Madeleine L'Engle
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and knowledge." - Proverbs 1:7
“When the director yells cut, I’ll be fine” Jay – Z
"All hell can't stop us now" - Rage Against the Machine
"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey." - Kenji Miyazawa
"Life is short but of everlasting value; it contains the seed of eternity" - St. Francis de Sales
"Entrust your works to the Lord, and your plans will succeed." - Proverbs 16:3
"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sit in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sing around or flitted noiseless through the house, until by the sun falling in at my west window, or the noise of some traveller's wagon on the distant highway, I was reminded of the lapse of time. I grew in those seasons like corn in the night, and they were far better than any work of the hands would have been. They were not time subtracted from my life, but so much over and above my usual allowance.
I realized what the Orientals mean by contemplation and the forsaking of works. For the most part, I minded not how the hours went. The day advanced as if to light some work of mine; it was morning, and lo, now it is evening, and nothing memorable is accomplished. Instead of singing like the birds, I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune. As the sparrow had its trill, sitting on the hickory before my door, so had I my chuckle or suppressed warble which he might hear out of my nest. My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the ticking of a clock; for I lived like the Puri Indians, of whom it is said that "for yesterday, today, and tomorrow they have only one word, and they express the variety of meaning by pointing backward for yesterday forward for tomorrow, and overhead for the passing day." - Henry David Thoreau
"Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name: you are mine. When you pass through the water, I will be with you; in the rivers you shall not drown. When you walk through fire, you shall not be burned; the flames shall not consume you." - Isaiah 43: 1-2
"Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." - Matthew 6:20-21
"Dimidium Facti Qui Coepit Habet: Sapere Aude, Incipe" - Horace
"The evolution of martial arts since 1993, since the UFC came around, martial arts have evolved more than they have in the last 700 years. We know exactly now what works in a real live situation with two warriors fighting. For a long time that was just speculation." - Joe Rogan, 2002
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Bernard M. Baruch (Dr. Seuss)
"The mind must always be in the state of 'flowing,' for when it stops anywhere that means the flow is interrupted and it is this interruption that is injurious to the well-being of the mind. In the case of the swordsman, it means death. When the swordsman stands against his opponent, he is not to think of the opponent, nor of himself, nor of his enemy's sword movements. He just stands there with his sword which, forgetful of all technique, is ready only to follow the dictates of the subconscious. The man has effaced himself as the wielder of the sword. When he strikes, it is not the man but the sword in the hand of the man's subconscious that strikes." - Takuan Sōhō
इहु जगु वाड़ी मेरा प्रभु माली - सदा समाले को नाही खाली
"This world is a garden, and my Lord God is the Gardener."
I never thought I'd read hindi on WSO
Looks like punjabi
"Be not afraid of growing slowly. Be afraid of standing still." - Chinese Proverb
"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it." - Lou Holtz
"The mind of God is music resonating through ten dimensional hyperspace." - Michio Kaku
Isaiah.... my man.... real talk. Good shit brother
Thanks bro - appreciate it.
Steve Jobs - Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.
Only focus on the things you can control, do not worry about the things you cant.
PRAYER OF THE CITADEL
"Give me a boy, Oh God, who is willing to learn the true value of honor, the necessity of perseverance and loyalty, and the meaningfulness of devotion to God and country.
And I shall take this boy as does a blacksmith take a crude piece of metal, and place him over a forge whose liberating flame of education is fired by the bellows of strict military discipline.
Into this ingot of a man I shall temper self-respect and self-discipline, fear of God and respect for mankind, appreciation of freedom and awareness of what sacrifices must be made to preserve freedom, and above all an insatiable desire for truth and honesty.
And when all these things I have done, I shall brand my finished work with a ring of gold to let all of humanity know that I have given back to the world a ...Citadel Man."
- Jim Herritage
Class of 1972
I keep a doc where I write all the quotes that had an impact on me. Some of my favorites on the list:
Big fan of Nietzsche as you see hehe
Yeah I keep a doc with quotes too. I have created some books with quotes by hand as well, it is more meaningful to me to write it and see it. But, I don't write by hand much anymore.
‘Truth is like poetry… and most people fucking hate poetry’
“I saw the angel in the marble, and I carved until I set him free.” - Michelangelo
A man can have anything, if he is willing to sacrifice
With your birth, comes a solemn vow
You will have nothing, your privilege is the dirt
In the darkness, only ambition will guide you.
-Valkorion
“Hunger is the best sauce.” Sancho Panza
‘He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man’
This helped me get into a grind mindset during recruiting
“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”
-Mike Tyson
“Would you rather be comfortable or happy?”
-idk
“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow."
-Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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"Nobody cares, work harder" - Cameron Hanes
“F%#} that CIM is so good you’re gonna make me cum” Riley Reid, MD, AssRam Capital
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die.
- Bladerunner
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
- Nietzsche
“How you do anything is how you do everything”
When you have a narrow escape, the operative word is not “narrow,” it’s “escape”!
Jack Bogle
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."
Hemingway
“Mastery itself was the prize of the venture” -Winston Churchill
"The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way." - Marcus
Good one bro!
Thank you Isaiah. It’s probably my favorite bc it helps keep me humble and focused on internal goals. Instead of comparing myself to someone who is better at a particular aspect of life compared to myself, I am reminded to make sure that I am just improving on my past self and continue to work hard and enjoy my life.
edit: this also keeps me focused on things I want vs society’s expectations of prestige or success
You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. - CS Lewis
"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying."
- R. Herrick
I do my duty, other things worry me not - Marcus Aurelius. Have it framed in my room
"Work until you no longer have to introduce yourself"
-Harvey Specter
“There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.”
Napoleon
A few that have stood out that I didn’t see or missed above:
“Good art comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.” — Cesar Cruz
“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable than risk being happy.” — Robert Anthony
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” — George Shaw
Asking the right questions is what’s important. Finding the right answers is the easy part.
This is what I always say
“I own this town, I own Rio de Janeiro, so for him to say that he is the king and I am the joker, if this was a different time, I would invade his favela on horseback, and would kill anyone who wasn’t fit to work. But we’re in a new time, so I’ll whoop his ass instead” Conner McGregor
"Be the change you wish to see in the world" by Mahatma Gandhi.
“I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process”
-Vincent Van Gogh
Too blessed to be stressed
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
I am not uncertain - $Bill
“Nobody leaves a negotiation happy” - Bobby Axelrod
“The grass is greener where you water it”
~ Neil Barringham
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” - Sir Winston Churchill
“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” - Leonardo da Vinci
The Joker: Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am? I'm a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it!
“Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.” Orson Welles
"Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it seems"
Don't get caught up in feeling yourself too much when you're on a high or you could get an ego or overextend and set yourself up for a downswing. Don't get too defeated or depressed when feeling down- remain optimistic, remember all the good things going for you and that bad times are temporary. Better to aim for a zen-like state of steady contentedness than having huge swings from happy to sad, you'll be happier overall and avoid making bad decisions on emotion or impulse, and you won't be a cocky asshole.
“That kind of weepiness makes me sick” - Truman
and 1000's more
I think you have described the opposite of Christianity. If someone treats us well, it is easy to treat them well. What being a Christian means is to treat well those who do not treat you well. To make a generalized assumption like this is largely incorrect. Just because most of the world behaves in a certain way does not mean everyone behaves that way.
I believe that is a quote about negotiation in business.
"The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why" - Mark Twain
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you in trouble; It’s what you think you know that just ain’t so” - Mark Twain
It's never too late to be the one you might have been.
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