<aside> ℹ️ Quotes are categorised into themes. Different themes appeal to different people.

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Themes

Action

Today instead of tomorrow. Moving fast compounds so much more than people realize — Sam Altman

In a year from now, you will regret not having started today — Karen Lamb

Startups are not a thinking game, they are a doing game.

“The only failure in your twenties is inaction. The rest is trial and error.“


Discomfort

Struggle is pain with meaning. Suffering is pain without meaning. Difference between struggle and suffering is context — it is the why.

“If you did not get what you want, then you didn’t really want it or that you tried to bargain for the price” - Rudyard Kipling

“Everything you seek or want from life lives just outside your comfort zone” — Yen Liow

"The hard is what makes it great"

“You can get almost anything you want out of life, as long as it’s one thing and you want it far more than anything else” — Naval

“If man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. If, for instance, Siddhartha had not learned to fast, he would have had to seek some kind of work today, either with you, or elsewhere, for hunger would have driven him. But as it is, Siddhartha can wait calmly. He is not impatient, he is not in need, he can ward off hunger for a long time and laugh at it. Therefore, fasting is useful, sir.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha


Work ethic

“If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren’t willing to do” — Michael Phelps

“I practiced so hard the games were easy” - Michael Jordan

“Success is doing things over and over again and doing them with a purpose” — Tim Grover

"Success is a daily grind of mundane tasks" — Michael Phelps


Helping others

"Self-esteem is the reputation that you have with yourself. You'll always know." – Naval

“Greatness is not a measure of how great you are but how great others came to be because of you”

“A boy comes to me with a spark of interest, I feed the spark and it becomes a flame. I feed the flame and it becomes a fire. I feed the fire and it becomes a roaring blaze.”

"You can get anything you want in this life if you help enough other people get what they want" - Zig Ziglar


Ambition

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