The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.
John C. MaxwellReally, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
Elon MuskDo something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
William JamesIf all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.
Jocko WillinkI had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.
Brian EnoI don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.
Frank OceanYou must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table – mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.
Robert GreeneWe are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Henry David ThoreauThere’s many ups and downs in the fight game.
Conor McGregorYour entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.
Eckhart TolleReversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.
Elbert HubbardMy father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.
Joyce MeyerIf a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.
Clint EastwoodOnly when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.
Warren BuffettYou just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
Babe RuthIf God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
Ray BradburySo long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
Baruch SpinozaOne might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.
Joyce MeyerAssociation with human beings lures one into self-observation.
Franz KafkaPatience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Jean-Jacques RousseauIf you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
Narendra ModiThe only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
H. L. MenckenI think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.
Kendrick LamarThe dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It’s not that there’s something new in our way of thinking – it’s that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.
Carl SaganA lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‚I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.‘
EminemPeople grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor RooseveltI’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.
Dwayne JohnsonI have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.
Narendra ModiPeople always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.
The WeekndWhat’s coming will come and we’ll just have to meet it when it does.
J. K. RowlingWith tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.
Bill GatesIf I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.
Angelina JolieIntelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.
Robert KiyosakiOnly the shallow know themselves.
Oscar WildePeople aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.
Kurt VonnegutWe are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
Ray BradburyI am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.
Ayrton SennaWe should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
George WashingtonI’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.
Anthony HopkinsI was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.
Narendra ModiThere are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Benjamin FranklinWhenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.
Haruki MurakamiI think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
Edmund HillaryFor me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.
Kanye WestIn the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.
Christopher HitchensSo, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you’re dealt?
George W. BushI wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.
Joyce MeyerOf all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Thomas CarlyleAs is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?
Nipsey HussleTo live is to think.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.
Taylor SwiftNo one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.
Bill GatesNothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Blaise PascalAs long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.
Robert KiyosakiThis is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Francis BaconI’m sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.
Keanu ReevesI claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
Mahatma GandhiI can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.
George H. W. BushI’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.
Elvis PresleyLife isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.
Richard M. Nixon