As the island of my knowledge grows, so to does the shore of my ignorance.
Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is a choice.
Never forget, to become a butterfly you must want to fly so bad that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
Everyone wants to be a lion until they have to do lion shit.
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.
The fastest way to get smarter is by playing a smarter opponent.
There is no such thing as problems, only situations.
Life can change any second and so can you.
Become more aware of what is really worth your energy.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Set a goal so big that you can’t achieve it until you grow into the person who can.
There’s always a way to do anything you want to do. You just have to decide how far you want to commit yourself.
The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem.
From the year you were born to today, you have lived a portion of your life story. How was it? Is it the story you wanted to live in every sense of the word? Why not? From today’s date to the year you will pass, your story hasn’t been written yet. What will you do with the time you have left? Will you be holding the pen?
What you think, multiplied by action plus time, will create your reality.
All I want from life is everything.
What kind of man would I be if I accepted defeat? What would my eulogy read “Here Lies a Wasted Soul.” It’s how we live that defines us. What we change and what we leave behind.
Vision is having the ability to hit a target no one can see.
“Don’t worry if they are listening, because they are always watching.” You will be judged on your actions not your words.
Your life comes down to decisions. Control your decisions and you will change everything.
Life can change in a second and so can I.
We can make ourselves miserable or we can make ourselves strong. The effort is the same.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Action is the only thing in life that will produce results.
Your future must always be bigger than your past.
Do what’s hard until it’s not hard anymore.
The most sinister thing about excuses is they are valid.
The keys to our cage are the keys to our kingdom.
The secret to being humble is a crushing amount of arrogance.
You don’t know where you stand until you know you won’t run away.
Depth of clarity is the greatest form of peace and happiness.
The means of learning are abundant. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce.
In a relationship don’t seek balance, instead find harmony.
All chest matches look like massacres when you’re a pawn.
Don’t stop when it feels good, stop when the job is done.
Deal with the world the way it is, not the way you think it should be.
I’m no smarter than the next person, but dear god, good luck keeping up.
The better you are at who you are, the better you are at what you do.
Hard work will beat talent if talent doesn’t work hard.
When writing the story of your life, don’t let anyone else hold the pen.
People say you can lead a horse to water, but the more powerful impact is making the horse thirsty.
Leadership is a behavior not a position and that behavior can be improved upon.
There may be people with more talent, but there is no excuse for being out worked.
Happiness leads to success not the other way around.
Courage is not the absence of fear, it’s the ability to act in the face of fear.
Pain is power with a price tag.
Humans lead with belief. You can’t do something that you don’t believe is possible.
When you have a why you can withstand any how.
No one is going to help me. It’s me against me.
Discipline equals freedom. Once life choices get easy so does success.
You never need luck when you don’t stop.
My new year’s resolution is to choke out my illusions. Keep digging.
You gotta bite the bullet till your gums are bleeding. You gotta dig up the past to get passed this. You gotta get ripped apart to see why you’re breathing.
Naked we come, naked we leave. Fools we are to hold tightly. We are the jail we are the key.
Knowing something intellectually is very different from integrating it into one’s life. The former takes knowledge, whereas the latter requires wisdom and practice.
The only real power we have is to choose how we respond.
I’ll either find a way or I’ll make one.
If no one thinks you’re crazy you are not yet operating at the outer limits of your potential.
I have no need to be right, I need the right answer.
Do you want to be you, or someone else’s reflection of you?
I never gave or took any excuse.
Hard work isn’t enough. You have to believe you can do it.
Indecision is the great destroyer of dreams.
You can’t learn what you think you already know.
I’m not what I think I am. I’m not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am. We live in a perception of a perception of ourselves. Living in this way makes it impossible to know what I really want.
The more you learn the less you realize you know.
The point of knowledge is to have control over your own life.
The trouble is we think we have time.
Knowledge isn’t power. Used knowledge is power.
Dig the well before you’re thirsty.
Action ends suffering.
Comparison is the thief of joy.
The path to misery is a comfortable one.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Success is like trying to go up the down escalator. It is possible, but not by letting things run their course.
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
That which you do not hate you will eventually tolerate.
Discipline weights oz’s, regret weights a ton.
Thoughts are just energetic patterns entering and leaving the mind with little hold. The only power they can possess is when we lock onto them and turn them into a story.
Dogmatism can only exist in the presents of ignorance.
There is no solution without a problem.
It’s not what we get that makes us happy, it’s who we become.
Success without fulfillment is failure.
Your measure in life won’t be what you have accumulated but what you gave.
You have to first be yourself before you can love yourself.
Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is pain.
Decisions not conditions determine my life.
We don’t see life the way things are. We see life the way we are.
We’re all animals. Some just have bigger teeth than others.
Impossible is just a word thrown around by small men, who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it.
Either you make excuses or you make progress, the choice is yours.
The most common way that people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
Passion is the antidote to self-doubt.
Success comes down to two things, focus and effort. Both of which are under of control.
You can fail at what you don’t like, so you might as well take a shot at what you love.
The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency you have.
If you’re not willing to learn no one can help you. If you’re determined to learn no one can stop you.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
He who has a strong why can bear any how.
Beware of the standard you set. How you do one thing is how you will do everything.
You laugh at me because I’m different. I laugh at you because you’re all the same.
It is we ourselves who must answer the question that life asks of us, and to theses questions we can respond only by being responsible for our existence.
To achieve personal meaning, one must transcend subjective pleasures by doing something that points and is directed to something or someone other than oneself.
Suffering is not necessary to find meaning. Meaning is possible in spite of suffering. To suffer unnecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
My understanding of what motivates me to act both positively and negatively will determine how effectively I can exercise discipline in order to achieve my goals.
Don’t fear failure. That shit is powerful. Fear mediocrity. That will waste your entire life.
Self-discipline is important, but so is having a proper motivation to make self-discipline unnecessary.
My drug of choice is how I feel about myself when I’m by myself.
You’re not a product of circumstance, but rather a product of your decisions.
Never let what you cannot do interfere with what you can.
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
If you are worried about what other people think you are placing false limits on yourself. You become a prisoner to their perceptions.
Failure is a small price to pay for wisdom.
Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
The bricks that weigh you down can be the bricks that build your future.
If going to spend your time climbing the ladder, make sure it’s up against the right wall.
If you argue for your limitation guess what my friends, they become yours. Congratulations, you now get to live in that box. You get to live in that self-defined prison.
If you don’t live the message you will suck as a messenger.
Anything will break under the weight of a superior will.
Life is so much simpler when you stop explaining yourself to people and just do what works for you.
If you don’t like something change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It’s the illusion of knowledge.
I don’t have talent so I just get up earlier.
When a flower doesn’t bloom you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.
When you live in hunger you will savor each minute, you’re alive.
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
It’s easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting.
Past failures can only hurt you if you think they define who you are today.
Real difficulties can be other overcome. It’s only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
I’m unstoppable because I decided I am.
The reasonable man adapts to the world, the unreasonable one persists to adapting the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Your level of success will never exceed your level of self-development because success is something earned by the person you become.
People will only act if the action requires three requirements: Become dissatisfied with my current state, have a vision of a better state, and path to get there.
The best advice is not what you tell the other, but what questions you ask.
Beliefs are the hidden scripts that run our lives.
I have strong convictions held loosely.
The wise man can use many things but needs none of them.
A person who has no self-control lives in hell.
To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
What a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can only get by practice.
Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.
Don’t let the force of an impression when it first hits you knock you off your feet: just say to it: Hold on a moment; let me see who you are and what you represent. Let me put you to the test.
You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.
Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has freedom to change at any instant.
This shit doesn’t get easier, we just get stronger.
To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.
If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.
You don’t have to perfect to be remarkable.
Motivation is fleeting, habit will endure.
Resentment destroys us. Resentment is like drinking poison and expecting your enemy to die.
Answers don’t interrupt you or find you. You have to pursue them.
Keep breaking your heart over and over again, until it opens.
In life you don’t get what you want, you get what you are.
The addiction to distraction is the death of creative production.
It’s impossible to see opportunity when you are staring at the obstacles.
How much longer are you going to wait to demand the best of and for yourself.
Have the curiosity to know yourself and the courage to be yourself.
Our lives would become a lot easier to live and potentially more satisfying if we operated out of the belief that we are in a state of imperfect knowledge, evolving toward something that we haven’t become yet.
We were all given the gift of creativity and the free will to think any way in which we choose, and we can use our thoughts to change the quality or our lives, if we want to.
We have to be willing to confront the truth about ourselves so that we can confront the truth outside ourselves.
There is no greatness that is not at peace. There is no greatness if we cannot be. We must be still.
Stay focused on what you need to learn, do the work that is necessary, and your belief in what is possible will naturally expand as a function of your willingness to adapt.
The hero and the coward feel the same thing. The only difference is how they act.
You don’t always know where you stand until you know you won’t run away.
Safe is for suckers and comfortable is for cowards.
You have to develop the fortitude to remain yourself even when the safest thing to do is conform.
The two most important words in the English language are the shortest: “I am.” Whatever you put after those two words determines your destiny.
The quality of your life is dictated by the quality of your mindset.
You can have the emotion or you can have the progress but you can’t have both.
Its ok to have a point to prove just don’t always be trying to prove a point.
Be forgiving with your past, strict with your present, and flexible with your future.
Enjoying what you do more than doing what you enjoy.
You can not move on to a better future if you’re holding on to a hope for a better past.
Acceptance is often the greatest change a human being can make.
If you can’t define a concept in a meaningful way, then the concept is meaningless.
Sometimes the biggest strength can be found in how you understand and confront your greatest weaknesses.
While you can’t change your past you can certainly reframe it. Reframing isn’t about lying to yourself, it’s about choosing to focus on a different aspect of an event to shift your neuro-chemical response.
I applaud people who have been through hell but are still kind & loving towards other humans.
Self talk is the most powerful form of communication because it either empowers you or it defeats you.
I wasted a lot of time waiting for opportunities. Waiting for people to spot me. Waiting for someone to build my career. One day as I was waiting, I realized I was just watching my life pass by. Waiting is really just wishing. Don’t let it fool you.
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change.
People waffle through life and wonder why they’re losing. Here’s the hard truth, you don’t want it badly enough. If you did, you’d get you shit together and march forward like a man possessed.
You cannot be committed to your dream and your comfort zone.
Your future is more valuable than your temporary feelings. Don’t give up.
If you don’t know exactly who you want to be and what you want to be doing in 5 years, you’re already doing it. Let that sink in. If you don’t know who you’re trying to grow into, you’re already who you’re going to be in 5 years. I don’t know about you, but who I am today is not good enough for me in 5 years.
You can either take yourself out of the race by focusing on how much harder it is for you to make progress, or you can buckle the fuck down, push yourself way past your breaking point, and show people just how much growth the human animal is capable of.
At the end of the day, if you want self-worth, you need only do things consistently that are worthy.
Good things may come to those who wait, but only what’s left over from those who make the most of this moment.
I don’t think people should try to silence the negative voice in their head, but I also don’t think they should give into it.
To fulfill your true potential you’ll have to let go of: Procrastination, entitlement, limited thinking, excuses, fear of failing, believing there’s a shortcut, waiting for the perfect time, self doubt, anything average.
Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.
A mind that dwells in the past builds a prison. Control your mind or it will control you.
All of humanities problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
Leaps forward in life happen when hard word meets opportunity. Some call this luck. I call this being prepared.
It’s not enough to be inclined toward deep thought and sober analysis; a leader must create time and space for it.
What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position fails, your ego goes with it.
We are incapable of seeing what is essential in the world if we are blind to what’s going on within us.
An envious man pains himself as though he were an enemy.
No one achieves excellence without a desire to get better, without a tendency to explore potential areas of improvement.
The need for progress can be the enemy of enjoying the process.
Follower react to the situation they are in leaders create the situation.
A good routine is not only a source of great comfort and stability, it’s the platform from which stimulating and fulfilling work is possible.
Order is a prerequisite of excellence and that in an unpredictable world, good habits are a safe haven of certainty.
Freedom, power, success require self-discipline. Because without it, chaos and complacency move in. Discipline, then is how we maintain that freedom.
You can’t run away from your choices-you can only fix them with better choices.
Turning out accomplishes nothing, tune in.
As a well-spent day brings a happy sleep, so a well employed life brings a happy death.
Nature optimizes for the whole, not for the individual, but most people judge good and bad based only on how it affects them.
Let the adversity you face today turn you into a better person tomorrow.
Great expectations create great capabilities. If you limit your goals to what you know you can achieve, you are setting the bar way to low.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
Any damn fool can make it complex. It takes a genius to make it simple.
In order to have the best life possible, you have to know what the best decisions are and have the courage to make them.
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
We all suck at most things. So what? You get better by practicing not panicking.
It is a fundamental law of nature that you get stronger only by doing difficult things.
If you don’t mind being wrong on your way to being right you’ll learn a lot-and increase your effectiveness.
The pain is all in your head. If you want to evolve, you need to go where the problems and the pain are. By confronting the pain, you will see more clearly the paradoxes and problems you face. Reflecting on them and resolving them will give you wisdom.
The more you learn the more you see.
Your thoughts rewrite your brain physically. So be very careful what you allow yourself to repeatedly think. It matters. A lot.
The greatest gift you can give someone is the power to be successful. Giving people the opportunity to struggle rather than giving them the things they are struggling for will make them stronger.
Do not reason with weakness. You must only take action.
Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions.
Practice like you never win. Play like you never lose.
How we walk with the broken speaks louder than how we sit with the great.
You gain or lose credibility with yourself dozens of times a day. The day is won or lost in the little things.
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
The comfort zone is nice but not much grows there.
Confidence is deciding you’re unstoppable. Not that you’re never going to fail.
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
Time is non-refundable, use it with intention.
Anger is the punishment you give yourself for somebody else’s mistake.
You often feel tired, not because you’ve done too much, but because you’ve done too little of what sparks a light in you.
Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable.
Life is hard for two reasons: because you’re leaving your comfort zone or because you’re staying in it.
Far too often, we look at other people and make their approval the standard we feel compelled to meet, and as a result, squander our very potential and purpose.
Instead of pretending that we are living some great story, we must remain focused on the execution-and on executing with excellence. We must shun the false crown and continue working on what got us here. Because that’s the only thing that will keep us here.
It is easy to praise providence for everything that happens in the world provide you have both the ability to see individual events in the context of the whole and a sense of gratitude.
One life. Just one. Why aren’t we running like we are on fire towards our wildest dreams?
Growth is walking away from what you are used to in order to get what you deserve.
Everyone buys books, few ever read them. Everyone wants growth, few accept pain. Everyone wants to be happier, few ever change. Intention is nothing without action, but action is nothing without intention. Progress happens when your intentions and actions become the same thing.
We, not externals, are the masters of our judgments.
The one who falls and gets up is so much stronger than the one who never falls.
Trying is wanting credit for something you never intend to do.
If your ambition requires you to walk through hell, walk like you own the place.
Be grateful you are strong enough to survive what you cannot control, and only responsible for what you can. You have no accountability for your parents, your siblings, your possessions – for death and for life itself. You are responsible only for what is in your power. So why take on the burden of matters which you cannot answer for? You are making unnecessary problems for yourself.
Getting an education means learning to bring our will in line with the way things happen.
Show me a man who cannot control his appetites and I will show a man living under a death sentence.
Developing and maintaining good discipline will enable me to perform when I don’t have to.
Action will force thoughts and beliefs to follow. How exciting to know I can affect everything simply by acting in the way I want to be.
Like the rock that waves keep crashing over. Holding steady while the world relentlessly pounds you. Sometimes it’s mild, sometimes it’s raging, but you need to hold as steady as that rock. People are counting on you, looking up to you, hating you.
Frequent discomforts leads to accelerated progress.
The pessimist will always prove themselves right.
Some say seeing is believing, some say believing can be seeing.
Emotions are not reactions to the world; they are your contraction of the world.
No matter how far you drive you are always the same distance from the ditch.
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
When we’re born we look like or parents. When we die we look like our choices.
The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Expectations are just unrealized resentments.
All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible). But calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.
Everyone has the will to win, few have the will to prepare.
If your priority is to learn and grow, your potential pool of experience grows exponentially.
The same level of thinking that created the problem won’t solve the problem.
The powerful will do as they will. The weak will suffer as they must.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
He who sweats more in training bleeds less in war.
Every person has to figure out the myth that they are living.
The past is important, but it’s not a prison.
He who sweats more in training bleeds less in war.
Conquering the world is almost easy once we have fully conquered ourselves.
Nobody cares, work harder
Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are. Your reputation is who people think you are.
The easiest way to live an extraordinary life is to have extraordinary habits.