Macro patience, micro speed. Gary Vaynerchuk
Courage over comfort. Brene Brown
No one owes you anything. Amelia Boone
Ego is about who’s right. Truth is about what’s right. Mike Maples Jr
Think for yourself. Everyone has a unique picture of how things work and function, and yours is as valuable as anyone’s. Kelly Slater
We need a new diversity – not one based on biological characteristics and identity politics but a diversity of opinion and worldviews. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It’s just like building muscles.
I try to be a realistic optimist: I’m very clinical about where we are today, but extremely optimistic about what we’re going to get done in the future. Ben Silbermann
We spend far too much time complaining about the way things are, and forget that we have the power to change anything and everything. Bozoma Saint John
Originality only happens on the edges of reality. Darren Aronofsky
Busy is a decision. Debbie Millman
You can be a juicy ripe peach and there’ll still be someone who doesn’t like peaches. Dita Von Teese
We can’t control the fact that bad things are going to happen, but it’s how we react to them that really matter. Dustin Muskovitz
Your dreams are the blueprint to reality. Greg Norman
The single most important distinction in life… is to distinguish between an opportunity to be seized and a temptation to be resisted. Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Have the moral courage to live in the gray…live the questions so that, one day, you will live yourself into the answers. Jacqueline Novogratz
The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have. John Rawls
I used to resent obstacles along the path, thinking ‘if only that hadn’t happened life would be so good.’ then I suddenly realized, life is the obstacles. There is no underlying path. Janna Levin
And if you say you’re not creative, look at how much you’re missing out on just because you’ve told yourself that. I think creativity is one of the greatest gifts that we’re born with that some people don’t cultivate, that they don’t realize it could be applied to literally everything in their lives. Robert Rodriguez
Endings don’t have to be failures, especially when you choose to end a project or shut down a business. Even the best gigs don’t last forever. Nor should they. Samin Nosrat
The disease of our times is that we live on the surface. We’re like the Platte River, a mile wide and an inch deep. Steven Pressfield
It all happened so suddenly and cinematically that it might defy belief – I remembered that actually I had always wanted to be a writer. So I started writing that every evening. Susan Cain
Thinking of what makes me happy doesn’t give me the same clarity as thinking about what gives me bliss. Kyle Maynard
Self-esteem is just the reputation you have with yourself. You’ll always know. Naval Ravikant
Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued… Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you ahve to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run – in the long-run, I say! – success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it. Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s search for meaning
Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life. Jerzy Gregorek
In a real sense, to grow in life, I must be a seeker of stress. Jim Loehr
Discipline equals freedom. Jocko Willink
