Favorite Quote?

"Our life is what are 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

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

"Hard work beats talent".

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”

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...."

“You’re always gonna have problems in life, make sure they’re good ones to have”

• "Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another" (Proverbs 27:17)
• Frodo: "I wish it need not have happened in my time."
  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)
• I also really like the opening paragraph of Meditations, "From my [relative] I learned...". It always sounded very profound to me.

"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."

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:

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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

"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

"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."

"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

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.