- If you aren’t big enough to stand criticism, you’re too small to be praised. Earl Deason
- Take the long view. This is going to be a nine-inning game. There will be highs and lows. Focus on what you can control. Brad Stulberg
- Holding on won’t make you strong, letting go will. Thibaut
- 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)
- How unlucky I am that this should happen to me. But not at all. Perhaps, say how lucky I am that I am not broken by what has happened, and I am not afraid of what is about to happen. Marcus Aurelius
- It takes more strength to repair than to build, to start anew than to begin, to be reconciled than to get along. Pope Francis
- Work when you can, rest when you can’t. Maxime Lagacé
- This life is all a f*cking mind game. Realize that. Own it! David Goggins (Can’t Hurt Me)
- Comfort is the craving that can take away your life. Develop the power to resist it, and you become unstoppable. Johnny Uzan
- The only way, is to learn to fight. Alain de Botton
- It’s impossible to improve yourself when you see yourself as a victim in every situation. Bill Masur (See also: love yourself quotes)
- Realize that nothing needs to change, except yourself. Thibaut
- After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser. Benjamin Franklin
- You must be courageous to admit that all things are possible, and that you are equipped to handle them all. Iyanla Vanzant
- When you see yourself as a witness, separate from ego, then no person or situation can shake you. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
- When I was a boy I used to think that strong meant having big muscles, great physical power; but the longer I live, the more I realize that real strength has much more to do with what is not seen. Real strength has to do with helping others. Fred Rogers
- When you over value compliments you become vulnerable to insults and judgement. Gary Vaynerchuk
- But what is philosophy? Doesn’t it simply mean preparing ourselves for what may come? Don’t you understand that really amounts to saying that if I would so prepare myself to endure, then let anything happen that will? Otherwise, it would be like the boxer exiting the ring because he took some punches. Actually, you can leave the boxing ring without consequence, but what advantage would come from abandoning the pursuit of wisdom? So, what should each of us say to every trial we face? This is what I’ve trained for, for this my discipline! Epictetus (Discourses, Amazon book)
- It never gets easier. You either get stronger or life beats you down. Ed Latimore
- It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil)
- Don’t go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst. Benjamin Franklin
- 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
- It is preposterous to take to heart that which you should throw over your shoulders. Baltasar Gracián
- Vulnerability is a strength. Gary Vaynerchuk
- Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak. Sun Tzu
- Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down. Eleanor Roosevelt
- The most important skill you can acquire: a mind calm under all circumstances. @orangebook_
- Those who feel entitled to a good life will never suffer enough to achieve it. Maxime Lagacé
- Conquer yourself rather than the world. René Descartes
- The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn’t care too much. Nassim Nicholas Taleb (The Bed of Procrustes)