FIND STRENGTH IN ADVERSITY
"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers."
MORGAN PECK
PSYCHIATRIST AND AUTHOR
BE PERSISTENT
"It's okay to be discouraged. It's not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you've decided to lay siege to in your own life - That's Persistence"
RYAN HOLIDAY
AUTHOR AND ENTREPRENEUR
BE RESILIENT
"It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well-provided are continually met and frustrated by difficult times and situations. It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way."
SENECA
STOIC PHILOSOPHER
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF
"Not to assume it's impossible because you find it hard, but to recognize that if it's humanly possible you can do it too."
MARCUS AURELIUS
STOIC PHILOSOPHER
LIVE IN THE PRESENT
"Focus on the moment, not the monster that may or may not be up ahead."
RYAN HOLIDAY
AUTHOR AND ENTREPRENEUR
PRACTICE GRATITUDE
"We humans are unhappy in large part because we are insatiable; after working hard to get what we want; we routinely lose interest in the object of our desire. Rather than feeling satisfied we feel a bit bored and in response to this boredom, we go on to form even grander desires."
WILLIAM IRVINE
PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY
BE KIND
"Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?"
JACK KORNFIELD
AUTHOR
BE THE HERO IN YOUR MOVIE
"Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost."
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB
SCHOLAR AND ESSAYIST
CONTROL YOUR MIND
"The wise man is neither raised up by prosperity nor cast down by adversity; for always he has striven to rely predominantly on himself, and to derive all joy from himself."
SENECA
ROMAN PHILOSOPHER
ADVERSITY STRENGTHENS THE MIND
"Make the mind tougher by exposing it to adversity."
ROBERT GREENE
AMERICAN AUTHOR
DO NOT GIVE UP
"In the mean time cling tooth and nail to the following rule; not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and alway stake full notes of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases."
SENECA
ROMAN PHILOSOPHER
BE AN OUTLIER
"People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
STEVE JOBS
CO-FOUNDER OF APPLE
ASK QUESTIONS
"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question, than a fool can learn from a wise answer."
BRUCE LEE
ACTOR AND MARTIAL ARTIST
TAKE ACTION
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
WALT DISNEY
AMERICAN ENTREPRENEUR
NEVER STOP LEARING
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
HENRY FORD
AMERICAN ENTREPRENEUR
STAY OPTIMISTIC
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. the optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."
WINSTON CHURCHILL
FORMER UK PRIME MINISTER
BE HUMBLE
"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing."
PLATO
AIM FOR THE 0.001%
"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men"
PLATO
ATTRACT POSITIVITY
"People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die."
PLATO
HAVE URGENCY
"Necessity is the mother of invention."
PLATO
DO NOT FEAR THE UNKNOWN
"To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to think that one knows what one does not know. No one knows with regard to death whether it is not really the greatest blessing that can happen to man but people dread it as though they were certain it is the greatest evil."
PLATO
WEALTH VS POVERTY
"Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent"
PLATO
UNDERSTAND POWER
"The measure of a man is what he does with power."
PLATO
DO GOOD
"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."
PLATO
CONTROL YOUR ANGER
"There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot."
PLATO
BE KIND
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
PLATO
PRACTICE EXCELLENCE
"Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act 'Rightly' because we are 'Excellent', in fact we achieve 'Excellence' by acting 'Rightly'."
PLATO
TRAIN YOUR MIND
"The untrained mind keeps up a running commentary, labeling everything, judging everything. Best to ignore that commentary don't argue or resist, just ignore deprived of attention and interest, this voice gets quieter and quieter and eventually just shuts up."
PLATO
DIVERSIFY YOUR LIFE
"A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope."
STOP POINTING BLAME
"Small-minded people blame others average-minded people blame themselves. the wise see all blame as foolishness."
GREATNESS TAKES TIME
"No great thing is created suddenly."
YOU CONTROL YOUR HAPPINESS
"No one is ever unhappy because of someone else."
YOU CONTROL YOUR WORRIES
"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."
STAY POSITIVE
"Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinion about the things."
INVITE DIFFICULTIES
"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."
EDUCATE YOURSELF
"Only the educated are free."
BE PATIENT
"Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruits then ripen."
ATTRACT POSITIVITY
"Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Do not sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others."
HAPPINESS IS WITHIN YOUR POWER
"Your happiness depends on three things, all of which are within your power: your will, your ideas concerning the events in which you are involved, and the use you make of your ideas."
BE CONTENT
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
6 RULES FOR SUCCESS
"1. Trust yourself.
2. Break some rules.
3. Don't be afraid to fail.
4. Ignore the naysayers.
5. Work like hell.
6. Give something back."
BE DIFFERENT
"The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that."
STAY HUNGRY
"Be hungry for success, hungry to make your mark, hungry to be seen and to be heard and to have an effect."
THE MIND IS THE LIMIT
"As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent."
FORGE YOUR OWN PATH
"What is the point of being on this earth if you are going to be like everyone else?"
WORK HARD
"You can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets."
EDUCATE YOURSELF
"The more knowledge you have, the more you're free to rely on your instincts."
ATTRACT POSITIVITY
"Positive thinking can be contagious. Being surrounded by winners helps you develop into a winner."
MAKE THEM JEALOUS
"You have to remember something: everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn."
DO NOT SURRENDER
"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."
DO NOT QUIT
"Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter."
LIVE TO CONQUER
"For me life is continuously being hungry, the meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer."
"If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, elsie would not have mentioned these alone."
"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it."
"If you want to improve, be content to bethought foolish and stupid."
"Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. how long can you afford to put off who you really want to be your nobler self cannot wait any longer. Put your principles into practice - now..."
"Stop the excuses and the procrastination. This is your life! you aren't a child anymore. The sooner you set yourself to your spiritual program, the happier you will be."
"The longer you wait the more you'll be vulnerable to mediocrity and feel filled with shame and regret, because you know you are capable of better."
"From this instant on vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do - now."
"It's not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters."
"Don't just say you have read books. show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind."
"Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems"
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."
"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."
"Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him."
"Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control."
"I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live."
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
DO NOT FALL FOUL OF CONSUMERISM
"Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. we've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them."
BE CONTENT
"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more that is poor."
WORK ON YOURSELF
"If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person."
STOP PROCRASTINATING
"While we are postponing life speeds by"
LIVE IN THE PRESENT
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so, wants nothing."
BE KIND
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness."
BE PREPARED
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
OVERCOME WEAKNESSES EVERY DAY
"Every night before going to sleep, we must ask ourselves: what weakness did I overcome today what virtue did I acquire
EXERCISE YOUR MIND
"Difficulties strengthen, the mind, as labor does the body."
BE COURAGEOUS
"Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack."
ACT VIRTUOUSLY
"We are bad men living among bad men and the only thing that can calm us - we must agree to go easy on one another."
FIGHT AGAINST ADVERSITY
"The bravest site in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."