Quotes are the most effective way to communicate the deepest, most impactful ideas humans have come up with in a bite sized form. Here are some of my faves [shoutout Will Mannon] :

  • “Your reputation is your best form of marketing”- Ben Sun

  • “This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been” - Glennon Doyle

  • “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind”- C. S. Lewis

  • “I know what is within me, even if you can’t see it yet” — Michael Jordan

  • “Destiny is a feeling you know something about yourself nobody else does”- Bob Dylan

  • “That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of”- C.S. Lewis

  • “New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any reason but because they are not already common” - John Locke.

  • “He who has peace of mind disturbs Neither himself nor another”-Epicurus

  • “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation” — Herman Melville

  • “Hard work does not guarantee success. But it’ll absolutely put you in the best position to achieve it”- Mike Norvell

  • “Family isn't always blood. It's the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what” - Maya Angelou

  • “If you try, you risk failure if you don’t, you ensure it”- Unknown

  • “Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working”- Pablo Picasso

  • “In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists”- Philosopher Eric Hoffer 

  • “I think the real meaning of “Wisdom” is just “I’ve seen a lot of shit go down in my lifetime and over time you start to notice everything just boils down to a few principles”- Mr. Money Moustache

  • “Follow your heart and your intuition. They somehow already know what you want to become”- Steve Jobs

  • “My soul is not contained within the limits of my body. My body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul”-Jim Carrey

  • “The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work”- Richard Bach

  • “My experience is what I agree to attend to.”- William James

  • “The best way to predict the future is to invent it”- Jeff Bezos

  • “The trouble is that most people want to be right. The very best people, however, want to know if they're right”- John Cleese

  • "In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer"- Albert Camus

  • "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."- Buckminster Fuller

  • “1% inspiration, 99% perspiration”- Thomas Edison

  • “I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art”- Carrie Fisher

  • “Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams”- Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all”- Helen Keller

  • “The best way out is always through”- Robert Frost

  • “Well done is better than well said”- Ben Franklin

  • “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra”- Jimmy Johnson

  • "You are not the opinion of someone who doesn't know you.-  Taylor Swift

  • “Admit when you're wrong. Shut up when you're right” - John Gottman

“Discovering you were wrong is an update, not a failure, and your worldview is a living document meant to be revised.” -— Julia Galef

"If you believe one person who says you can’t, you have to believe one person who says you can.”

— Melanie Perkins

“Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group…then to hell with them.”

— Charlie Munger

“Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.”

— Esther Perel

“The beauty of empathy is that it doesn’t demand that you agree with the other person’s ideas.”

— Chris Voss

“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them. You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.” 

— Tara Westover

"At the end of the day, it’s about trust. If you say what you're going to do, and then keep on doing that — you'll do pretty well.”

— Daniel Ek

"Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now."

— Fred Rogers

“Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Best Quotes About Risk

1. "Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.”

Swami Vivekananda

2. “If you’re not scared a lot you’re not doing very much.”

Robin Sharma

3. “Sometimes, the biggest risks are those we take with our hearts.”

4. “The biggest risk a person can take is to do nothing.” Robert Kiyosaki

5. “A ship in harbor is safe, but what is not what ships are built for.” John A. Shedd

6. “If you want it, go for it. Take a risk. Don’t always play it safe or you’ll die wondering.”

7. “Take every risk, drop every fear.”

8. “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” Jim Rohn

9. “If it’s still in your mind, it is worth taking the risk.”

10. "Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”

Paulo Coelho

"Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail."- Bruce Lee

Psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl on freedom:

"Everything can be taken from a person but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble."- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Computer science professor Randy Pausch—who had recently received a terminal pancreatic cancer diagnosis—shares some advice two months before his death:

"It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not. I assure you I've done a lot of really stupid things, and none of them bother me. All the mistakes, and all the dopey things, and all the times I was embarrassed — they don't matter. What matters is that I can kind of look back and say: Pretty much any time I got the chance to do something cool I tried to grab for it — and that's where my solace comes from."

Author William Martin on the wonders of ordinary life:

"Do not ask your children

to strive for extraordinary lives.

Such striving may seem admirable,

but it is the way of foolishness.

Help them instead to find the wonder

and the marvel of an ordinary life.

Show them the joy of tasting

tomatoes, apples and pears.

Show them how to cry

when pets and people die.

Show them the infinite pleasure

in the touch of a hand.

And make the ordinary come alive for them.

The extraordinary will take care of itself."