- It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil)
- Amateurs believe that the world should work the way they want it to. Professionals realize that they have to work with the world as they find it. Shane Parrish
- I don’t stop when I’m tired. I stop when I’m done. David Goggins (Can’t Hurt Me)
- Learn to love the pain of improvement. It is the most beneficial addiction you can have. Angela Jiang
- I realized that intimidation didn’t really exist if you’re in the right frame of mind. Kobe Bryant
- You cannot experience the fullness of your life when you live to avoid hurt. Iyanla Vanzant
- You are only free when you realize you belong no place – you belong every place – no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great. Brené Brown (Braving the Wilderness, Amazon book)
- Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we’re never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow? Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Jim Rohn
- Vulnerability is a strength. Gary Vaynerchuk
- To complain always brings discredit. Better be a model of self-reliance opposed to the passion of others than an object of their compassion. Baltasar Gracián
- Those who feel entitled to a good life will never suffer enough to achieve it. Maxime Lagacé
- This life is all a f*cking mind game. Realize that. Own it! David Goggins (Can’t Hurt Me)
- “It’s a hard life if you don’t weaken.” ― Stephen King
- Diligence overcomes difficulties, sloth makes them. Benjamin Franklin
- Conquer yourself rather than the world. René Descartes
- There’s no hope if people expect life to be easy. There’s a future if people believe they must be strong. Maxime Lagacé
- You make yourself strong because it’s expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be. Jodi Picoult (Vanishing Acts)
- Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits. Benjamin Franklin
- It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness. Nassim Nicholas Taleb (The Bed of Procrustes)
- To welcome with affection what is sent by fate. Marcus Aurelius
- I’ve yet to meet a strong person with an easy past. Ed Latimore
- No one thinks about you in quite the way you think. No one will love you in the way that you hope. No one can give you what you have always longed for. No one will make you what you seek to become. To lean is to fall. Kapil Gupta
- People who wade into discomfort and vulnerability and tell the truth about their stories are the real badasses. Brené Brown (Rising Strong, Amazon book)
- Don’t give the small things more time than they deserve. Marcus Aurelius
- I say, drop all your defences. Anyone can make a mistake — even you. Do not defend your mistakes; just accept them and move on. When you are totally defenceless, that is when you will be completely strong. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
- If it scares me, there’s magic on the other side. Kamal Ravikant
- To try to avoid pain is to give too many f*cks about pain. In contrast, if you’re able to not give a f*ck about pain, you become unstoppable. Mark Manson
- It never gets easier. You either get stronger or life beats you down. Ed Latimore
- Think of the life you have lived until now as over and, as a dead man, see what’s left as a bonus and live it according to Nature. Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own, for what could be more fitting? Marcus Aurelius