Quotes tagged with Life

Every piece of advice must be taken before it's given.

If it takes an expert to tell you what it’s worth, it isn’t worth anything.

The only relationship that is guaranteed to last a lifetime is the one you have with yourself.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

One of the most dangerous things you can do is to treat a fixable problem as part of your identity. Then you'll never fix it.

The more easily you get offended, the less intelligent you actually are.

The secret to getting ahead is getting started.

Don't cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.

You can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards.

Whatever can happen, will happen

The purpose of a habit is to remove that action from self-negotiation. You no longer expend energy deciding whether to do it. You just do it. Good habits can range from telling the truth, to flossing.

If it entertains you now but will bore you someday, it’s a distraction. Keep looking.

You make your own luck if you stay at it long enough.

When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.

Just start. Start slow if you have to. Start small if you have to. Start privately if you have to. Just start.

Ideas don't come out fully formed, they only become clear as you work on them. You just have to get started.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

A healthy man wants a thousand things, a sick man only wants one.

The ideal life would be one where you had a hobby that as a byproduct made you money, you had a hobby that as a byproduct kept you healthy, you had a hobby that as a byproduct made you smarter and more creative.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

You are what you constantly consume