This is a collection of motivating or otherwise uplifting quotations I have collected from various Internet sources or books.
- “College / university is where you make your lifelong friends”
- “Be open, genuine, and sincere”
- “In the end, if you stress out whether or not you’re living your life”perfectly," you’re just going to drive yourself mad."
- “Treat others how you want to be treated. Most of all, be a positive person.”
- “The only things you are going to regret is not pursuing whatever strikes your curiosity.”
- “Whatever it may be that you are interested in or curious about, do it. Do what you want. Let your curiosity be your guide.”
- “You know that thing you’re thinking about doing? Do it. Do all that shit. Do everything you want!”
- “It is far better to regret having done something than to regret not doing it.”
- “Fuck being timid, seriously fuck everything about it. If you meet a girl you find attractive and enjoy talking to, ask her out, the worst thing that will happen is she will say no.”
- “When you are young, you have time and energy, but no money. When you are middle aged, you have money and energy, but no time. When you are old, you have money and time, but no energy.”
- “Being happy is all that is really important. Enjoy time with your friends, love your family and yourself. The rest, is just stuff.”
- “Be yourself. Fuck what other people think. It took me years to realise that my weird geeky habits were awesome and not shameful.”
- “It’s very easy to hurt people. Begin to understand that the words you say to people, irregardless of how strongly/weakly you feel about them, or how important/unimportant you believe you are to the other person: your words will still have a huge impact on them.”
- “The more logical you are, the more you tend not to understand women.”
- “Man up!”
- “It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all.”
- “Remember kids, anything you can do good, there is an Asian who is better at it than you.”
- “There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all.”
- “What you achieve is limited by what you believe you can achieve. Believe in the unbelievable.”
- “We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.”
- “There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.”
- “Most men who have become successful are usually those who do not take personally any rejection that comes to them.”
- “Rejection only matters if you think it matters.”
- “Time is very precious, so do not waste it on regret and all the coulda’s, wouda’s and shouda’s.”
- “If you like a girl, don’t let her slip away, tell her the truth, but if you don’t like her and she told you that she does, don’t say anything…it can break her heart.”
- “Every person you have ever met, every person you will pass in the street today, is going to die. Living long enough, each will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?”
- “Tell the truth. You may get in trouble sometimes, but it’s a better way to live.”
- “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.”
- “Seriously guys, if you’re snuggled up with a girl and you like her, give her a kiss.”
- “It’s always a case of the greener pasture on the other hill.”
- “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”
- “By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.”
- “Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”
- “The secret of happiness, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
- “Be the change you want to see in the world.”
- “It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.”
- “As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.”
- “Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from.”
- “Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless”
- “Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.”
- “If you want to gain something and don’t care about your life”now“, you have already lost the game”
- “A day without work is a day without food”
- “You must be mindful in your life. Otherwise you waste it.”
- “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
- “GDP measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile”
- “Happiness fuels success, not the other way round.”
- “If you have a difficult task to do, give it to a lazy man, he will find and easier way to do it.”
- “Apathy is death!”
- “You need to change your understanding of yourself. Have you considered the idea that you may be an attractive and likeable guy who women would enjoy having a cup of coffee with?”
- “Don’t half-ass two things, whole-ass one thing”
- “A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do”
- “Man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices his money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.” (Dalai Lama)
- “My friend describes us as ducks – all calm above the surface, padding madly underneath, but only you know about that. Everyone you know is dealing with something, and wondering why they’re the only ones. They’re not, and you’re not.”
- “And remember that time is not free and you will never get more of it.”
- “So nice to see other people take this leap of faith and leave behind conventional expectations in order to find priceless and invaluable experiences around the world.” – on world travel
- “The secret to getting ahead is getting started”
- “Tourists leave home to escape the world, while travelers leave home to experience the world.”
- “Whatever you sell, don’t sell your time; you don’t have enough.”
- “Rich people don’t work for money… money works for them.”
- “Choose fulfillment and passion over ‘money’ and ‘success.’”
- “Having money in the bank gives you confidence to do what you want to do. So why not just skip the money part? Why can’t I just have the confidence to do what I want to do?”
- “Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week.”
- “The journey to success is long. Very long. Very often, too long.”
- “If you don’t build your dream, someone will hire you to help build theirs.”
- “You’ll never regret another day in the office, but you will regret not having whatever experiences you could have on the road.”
- “You will be dead soon. The only logical thing is to be happy.”
- “If you want to start something cool, then go do it. If you want to join something cool, go find it. Stop navel gazing and start living. Life is what is going to happen to you while you are hiding in the bedroom.”
- “There’s nothing so pathetic as watching a 30-year old give away the best years of her life to a big corporation.”
- “Success is a matter of identifying opportunities and putting in clear and concise efforts in right direction”
- “Find your obsession”
- “Think of your time and attention as the most scarce resource”
- “I made my money by careful choices and not wasting. Nobody gets rich by giving it away.”
- “The true value of money is in having all the free time you want. Its the most valuable resource you can buy.”
- “… how artificial are the salaried limits most people think in”
- “The secret to success in any profession is repetition and repetition is boring”
- “Once you get too logical, too precise, you feel alone”
- “smart people tend not to work hard unless there is something useful and fun about their work”
- “Part of the reason people burn out and have mid-life crises is because they reach a point where they realise that they’ve given the best years of their life to a career that didn’t really mean anything.”
- “Hard work is a disgusting waste of your life when it’s thrown at the wrong things.”
- “I cannot fathom a sadder day than when you wake up and realize you’ve wasted years doing something you hate”
- “Every once in a while, ask yourself ‘is what I am doing right now virtuous?’”
- “I got no reason to lie to you kid, fuck a lotta women. Not just one, a lot.”
- “Life’s too short to waste it waiting for something to happen.”
- “You will end up loving what you are the best in the world at.”
- “You are the coach of your future self. You are the ONLY coach of your future self. Everything that happens in your future is a direct result of what you do today.”
- “What’s actually”crazy" is succumbing to your fears and letting your life pass by in a situation where you’re unhappy."
- “The best parts of life are sharing moments with people you love and being creative.”
- “I’ve suffered the pain of regret for far too long and it is 100x worse than the pain of rejection”
- “Take advantage of your youth and enjoy it. The journey truly is the reward.”
- “Talent doesn’t get you everywhere - and neither will hard work - but together they can do great things.”
- “My biggest fear is a mundane life.”
- “Comfort is the first sign of waning desire.”
- “Most peoples’ ambitions don’t lie very far beyond”be comfortable“.”
- “Looking back and second-guessing yourself is just totally a recipe for misery and the worst kind of depressive introspection.”
- “It’s a terrible feeling to have to spend your most productive hours working on someone else’s problems”
- “It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready.”
- “The most successful people are almost never defined by a single skill.”
- “Live a life that feels good to you on the inside, not one that looks good on the outside.”
- “It’s also okay to be a different person than what your family and friends and society expects you to be.”
- “One of the great skills of life is to learn to balance the opportunity at hand with your bigger goals in life.”
- “Enjoying life is a skill also, probably the most important skill you can acquire. And yes, you will certainly regret it if you don’t make time for living.”
- “A regular job implies that you are working to achieve someone else’s dreams. You’re ‘buying’ comfort with your only real asset - time. For some, it’s the right choice, but for others it’s not even an option.”
- “Freedom is the opportunity to live your life as you want to live it.”
- “Aside from certain biological concerns that don’t affect most people’s choices of time investment, age is just an arbitrary number.”
- “Find something that makes you want to happily keep doing it until the time is up.”
- “The tough thing is figuring out what questions to ask, but that once you do that, the rest is really easy.”
- “Learn how to make money, not how to save money. You will never save your way to riches”
- “In most Western countries, it isn’t that hard or terribly uncomfortable to be average, so the journey to success might not be worth the price for a lot of people.”
- “You will neither venture anything nor achieve anything if you permit yourself to be unduly influenced by others.”
- “Death is inevitable so do what you want and what makes you happy.”
- “Don’t let your dreams be dreams.”
- “Individuals who are realized in their own lives almost never criticize others. If they speak at all, it is to offer encouragement.”
- “Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do.”
- “The first thing to realize is that”mediocrity" is a reality that is slowly shaped in front of us. It’s subtle, like boiling a frog in water – by the time you realize the damage that’s been done, you’re powerless to change."
- “If you’re not learning something new, you should be doing something else.”
- “As with music or sports, when you play with people who are better than you, you’ll perform above your ability level. If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’ll never learn anything.”
- “My life has been a path at the edge of uncertainty. Today, I think we educate kids to be settled in a comfortable chair. You have your job, you have your little car, you have a place to sleep. And the dreams are dead. You don’t grow on a secure path. All of us should conquer something in life and it needs a lot of work and it needs a lot of risk.” - Francis Mallmann
- “If you are a very driven person and you want to achieve a lot, there is a point where you can hurt a lot of people” – Ben Shewry
- “Failure is very important. It introduces you to the idea that you don’t want to return to.” - Dan Barber
- “Q. When do you know if you’re really passionate about what you’re building? A: When you can go to the extent of even working for free for a company that’s already doing it.”
- “Your success in life is when you can smile and say ‘yeah, that was fun’.”
- “Life starts when you make stupid risks” - /u/Crivain
- “One of the hardest decisions you’ll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.”
- “If you’re not moving forward, you’re most likely moving backwards. There’s no standing still in life.”
- “If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.” - Lao Tzu
- “If you get the answer, you should hang up the phone.”
- “Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those could not hear the music”
- “It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted in a profoundly sick society.”
- “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
- “This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.” - Alan W. Watts
- “If you lose a dollar, you can always earn it back. But if you lose a minute, you can’t get it back.”