626 Quotes by Ryan Holiday

The combination of power, fear, and mania can be deadly. The leader, convinced that he might be betrayed, acts first and betrays others first. Afraid that he's not well liked, he works so hard to get others to like him that it has the opposite effect. Convinced of mismanagement, he micromanages and becomes the source of the mismanagement. And on and on - the things we fear or dread, we blindly inflict on ourselves.

There are two ways to be wealthy—to get everything you want or to want everything you have.

If solitude is the school of genius, as the historian Edward Gibbon put it, then the crowded, busy world is the purgatory of the idiot.

Management? That's the reward for all your creativity and new ideas? becoming the Man? Yes- in the end, we all face becoming the adult supervision we originally rebelled against.

What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.

There’s nothing shameful about sweeping. It’s just another opportunity to excel—and to learn.

Unhelpful perceptions can invade our minds — that sacred place of reason, action and will — and throw off our compass.

Reversals and regressions are as much a part of the cycle of life as anything else.

Freedom? That’s easy. It’s in your choices. Happiness? That’s easy. It’s in your choices. Respect of your peers? That too is in the choices you make.