List of favourite quotations.

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FAVOURITE QUOTATIONS

1. We avoid risks in life so that we can make it safely to death.

2. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

3. Every beginning has an end, and every end is a new beginning.

4. When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

5. If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people's opinions, you will never be rich!

6. 99% of the world is convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre middle-ground.

7. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself.

8. Every time we choose safety we reinforce fear.

9. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

10. Someone with less passion and talent can totally beat you if they're willing to work longer and harder than you are.

11. Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

12. Good artists copy, great artists steal.

13. It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

14. Discomfort means doing something that others were unlikely to do, because they're busy hiding in their comfortable zone.

15. Don’t try to stand out from the crowd; avoid crowds altogether.

16. Money is not the prime asset in life. Time is.

17. If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded.

18. I believe that you measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.

19. I am always doing that which I cannot do, so that I may learn how to do it.

20. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

21. I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

22. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

23. A happy, purposeful life is the accumulation of many happy days.

24. Try to resist the temptation to “judge” your life. The judging mind paralyses us either by giving us a false sense of perfection or by giving us a deep sense of inadequacy.

25. Quality over quantity but remember that quantity leads to quality.

26. In life, it’s rarely about getting a chance; it’s about taking a chance.

27. A man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

28. Most people are so afraid of losing that they never get in the game, so they can never win.

29. There’s a huge difference between knowing how to do something and actually doing it.

30. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you have to keep going.

31. The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do.

32. Life isn’t about avoiding risks. It’s about making calculations and going all in with the things you love.

33. Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.

34. If you want to make something for yourself, work harder than everybody else.

35. Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express, not to impress. Don’t strive to make your presence noticed, just make your absence felt.

36. Have faith and a burning desire to just keep on going no matter what happens.

37. Dreams don’t work unless you do.

38. Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it, even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.

39. To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

40. If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t be amazing. If she’s worth it, you won’t give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy. Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

41. The happiest people don’t have to be the best at everything, they just have to make the best of everything.

42. You miss one-hundred percent of the shots you don’t take.

43. Skills can be taught. Personality is inherent.

44. The closer you get to a mountain the larger it feels.

45. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

46. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

47. The modern world is a polluted, overly franchised, genetically modified, commodified, fluorescent, overstimulated, air-conditioned nightmare.

48. If you are depressed, you’re living in the past. If you are anxious, you’re living in the future. If you are at peace, you’re living in the present.

49. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

50. Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.

51. The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.

52. If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way.

53. Consistency is the most fundamental virtue to becoming the person you want to be.

54. Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

55. On your last day on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.

56. Your level of success will rarely exceed your level of personal development, because success is something you attract by the person you become.

57. Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

58. If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

59. There’s two pains in life: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

60. Mystery is not about travelling to new places, is about seeing with new eyes