42 quotes to keep in your back pocket

[Max Shapira]

42 quotes to keep in your back pocket
(listed in no particular order)​

01. All human beings are entrepreneurs. When we were in the caves, we were all self-employed…finding our food, feeding ourselves. That’s where human history began. As civilization came, we suppressed it. We became “labor” because they stamped us, “You are labor.” We forgot that we are entrepreneurs. ~ Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner and micro finance pioneer

02. I hated every minute of training, but I said... 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'. ~ Muhammad Ali

03. Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. ~ Jim Rohn

04. There have been gazillions of people that have lived before all of us. There’s no new problem you could have — with your parents, with school, with a bully. There’s no new problem that someone hasn’t already had and written about it in a book. ~ Will Smith

05. You cannot win the war against the world if you can’t win the war against your own mind. ~ Will Smith

06. If you're poor, it's because you don't care about humanity. If you really care about humanity, you're going to want to know what their needs are, their problems are, and you're going to want to find solutions and bring those solutions to people. ~ Dr. John Demartini

07. You are never going to know if the choice you made was the best one possible at that moment. There is no time machine or a future machine to help you make decisions for the long term. The best you can do is what feels right, and what makes you happy at the moment. ~ Gary Vaynerchuk

08. Success has less to do with what we can get ourselves to do and more to do with keeping ourselves from doing what we shouldn’t. ~ Kenneth Cole

09. Success is peace of mind, that is a direct result of knowing that you've done your best, at becoming the best you are capable of becoming. ~ John Wooden

10. If you’re going to get better, you have to push yourself. If you push yourself, you’re going to fall. If you’re not falling, you’re not pushing. Falling is part of getting better. ~ Darren Hardy

11. Everything is impossible until someone does it. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

12. In Kung Fu, it always involves a very fast motion. For instance, a guy grabbing your hand— it's not ideal to do so many steps, but instead doing just ONE that goes—BAM! This is what we mean by simplicity. It has to be based on a very minimum motion, so that everything would be directly expression—ONE motion—and he's gone. Do it gracefully; don't yell and jump all the way. ~ Bruce Lee

13. I had my hustle. It was whatever I could do to not end up working in a factory. If I had to shake it like a showgirl, I was going to do it. ~ Ryan Gosling

14. A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. ~ Richard Bach

15. Financial freedom means the word “budget” is not part of your vocabulary for daily living. It’s about living how you want to live without restraint. ~ MJ DeMarco

16. Entrepreneurship doesn’t see age, color or gender. It rewards innovation, value, creativity, and effort. ~ Patrick Bet-David, creator of the YouTube channel “Valuetainment”

17. Success—you don’t get it in the first round, you get it by never going down. ~ Gary Keller

18. In the tiny hours of darkness you can build something spectacular. ~ Tim Denning, blogger

19. It's easy to be passionate about your product when it is valuable and the world loves it. ~ MJ DeMarco

20. Sit at the tables where they’re talking about ideas and opportunities — not shit about other people. ~ Anonymous

21. The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ~ William James

22. The canvas is blank, and the brush is in your hands. Will you paint a masterpiece of personal and professional fulfillment, or will the canvas remain untouched? ~ MJ DeMarco

23. Nothing meaningful in life is easy. Nothing easy in life is meaningful. ~ Dr. Christian Poensgen

24. God placed the best thing in life on the other side of terror—on the other side of your maximum fear are all of the best things in life. ~ Will Smith

25. Ask yourself if what you are doing today is enough to get you where you want to be tomorrow. ~ MJ DeMarco

26. Sometimes, achieving the actual goal earns you almost nothing. But the journey itself teaches you everything you need to know. ~ Will Smith

27. There is a 10-year window when you are your child's most important person in the entire world. And after that 10 years, they have other most important people: they have best friends, they have girlfriends, boyfriends, they have partners, spouses. And you will never get that 10-year period back. Yet, it also happens to be the time when we as adults are supposed to be hustling as hard as we possibly can to achieve all these goals in our life. When we're traveling the most, we're working the most; we're going crazy for whatever our ambitions are. It's such a shame because so many people miss those moments with their kids that they are never going to get back. So my whole call to action is it's a time to think about that, to realize how precious that 10-year period is. It doesn't mean giving up those ambitions, giving up all of your goals, your personal dreams. But it does mean realizing that there's a trade-off, realizing there's a balance, and something that you need to think about on a daily basis. ~ Sahil Bloom

28. One of Lee's students once asked him, "Master, you constantly speak to us of peace, yet every day you train us to fight. How do you reconcile these conflicting ideas?" And Bruce Lee responded, "It is better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener in a war." ~ Bruce Lee

29. The internet is good at showing sexy. It’s bad at showing life. ~ Mark Manson

30. Your anxiety lies to you. It tells you the world is going to laugh at you when in reality no one gives a shit. ~ Mark Manson

31. Unreasonable fear is why most people don't start businesses. It's why people stay at jobs they hate. It's why they wait 30 years for stock market miracles while inflation erodes their savings. The mother of all enduring regret is unreasonable fear. ~ MJ DeMarco

32. The thing I've learned over the years about advice is that no one can accurately predict the future, but we all think we can. So advice at its best is one person's limited perspective of the infinite possibilities before you. People's advice is based on their fears, their experiences, their prejudices, and at the end of the day, their advice is just that: it's theirs, not yours. When people give you advice, they're basing It on what they would do, what they can perceive, on what they think you can do…you are the most reliable measure of all the possibilities. ~ Will Smith

33. All of us already have everything we need inside of us to make our lives work. Personal development is not about self-improvement…it's about self-discovery. It's about rediscovering what we already know. ~ Bill Gove

34. Most people wait until they are certain before they act. But you will never be certain of anything until you act. ~ Mark Manson

35. It’s the sum of all small opportunities that will eventually give you your big break ~ Pooja Dutt, Youtuber

36. Life is pretty good if you're building things you find interesting. Keep building and exploring. You may end up in a place you never expected. ~ Dylan Field, co-founder of Figma

37. You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, some time in your life. ~ Victor Hugo (often mistakenly attributed to Churchill)

38. How you spend your time NOW will determine how you spend your life LATER. If 30 hours of your week is consumed in entertainment, drinking, and goofing off, that's your priority—not financial freedom. ~ MJ DeMarco

39. No one is going to stand up at your funeral and say, "He f*cked like a wildebeest and had the best golf swing I've ever seen." Life is about loving people, not impressing them. ~ Mark Manson

40. Wanting to be happy and feel loved and have a great job means nothing—we all want that. Knowing what you’re willing to give up for those things means everything—it determines who you are. ~ Mark Manson

41. Trust people. Most of them are good and while you might get hurt occasionally, the alternative of distrusting everyone is far worse. ~ Mark Manson

42. It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts. ~ Jim Rohn

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

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