Favorite Quotes

If there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do us no harm.
- African proverb

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.
- James Cameron

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
- Roald Dahl

On the piano, play mainly the things that you enjoy, even if your teacher doesn't assign them to you. You learn the most from things you enjoy doing so much that you don't even notice that the time is passing. Often I'm so engrossed in my work that I forget to eat lunch.
- Albert Einstein, letter to his son (1915)

Strenuous intellectual work and looking at God's nature are the reconciling, fortifying, yet relentlessly strict angels that shall lead me through all of life's troubles... what a peculiar way this is to weather the storms of life—in many a lucid moment I appear to myself as an ostrich who buries his head in the desert sand so as not to perceive the danger.
- Albert Einstein

What would this look like if it were easy?
- Tim Ferriss

The moment that you feel, just possibly, you are walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind, and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself… That is the moment, you might be starting to get it right.
- Neil Gaiman

Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.
- Stephen Hawking

You can tell more about a person by what they say about others than you can by what others say about them.
- Audrey Hepburn

My job isn't to win a popularity contest.
- Steve Jobs

That's been one of my mantras—focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because, once you get there, you can move mountains.
- Steve Jobs

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
- Michael Jordan

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Death: The Final Stage of Growth

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.
- Bill Nye

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.
- Conan O'Brien, Dartmouth Commencement Speech (2011)

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger 

Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.
- Kurt Vonnegut

A man with one watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never quite sure.
- Segal's Law

Discipline equals freedom.
- Jocko Willink

If you work hard enough and you’re good enough, it’s going to happen.
- Jimmy O. Yang