By Ryan Holiday
- Practice over a long time will turn something into second nature for you.
- We don’t rise to the occasion, we fall to the level of our training.
- We don’t get anywhere in life without work.
- No one does their best in their robe, so get up, shower, and get dressed whether you leave your home or not.
- While the world is unpredictable, we can take care of ourselves.
- The person who becomes comfortable with being uncomfortable is the person who understands discipline.
- One that has not learned to govern self is not qualified to govern.
- Nothing unchecked will last long.
- The best way to master your mornings is to master the evening before.
- Instead of expecting things to be easy, prepare for them to be hard.
- We think we can make up for things with creativity, but what we need is commitment.
- We will be given a million reasons to stop and quit, but we must continue forward.
- We choose the hard way because in the long run it is the best way.
- Greatness is not just what someone does, but also what they do not do.
- A leader cannot act upon impulse, they must be controlled by something deeper.
- The secret to success in almost any area is blocked times of focus without distraction.
- No one can achieve the anything without the discipline of keeping the main thing.
- In a world of distractions, staying focused is a superpower. Most people do not have the discipline to stay focused.
- Patience is bitter, but it’s fruit is sweet. Patience is the primary evidence of a genius.
- The graveyard of lost potential is filled with people who had time to do something later.
- Losing is not always on us, but being a loser is. You do not have to give up.
- Someone else’s lack of self-control is not an excuse to abandon our own.
- You can have passion, but no one should be a slave to it.
- Success many times depends on judicial constraint.
- If you think you have room to grow, you do. If you think you know everything, and cannot learn more, that is true as well.
- Everyone is going through something, but some people choose not to vomit their issues on everyone else. The strongest people keep themselves in check.
- Do your best, even if you are despised for doing it.