626 Quotes by Ryan Holiday

Reminding ourselves each day that we will die helps us treat our time as a gift. Someone on a deadline doesn’t indulge himself with attempts at the impossible, he doesn’t waste time complaining about how he’d like things to be.

Pride blunts the very instrument we need to own in order to succeed: our mind. Our ability to learn, to adapt, to be flexible, to build relationships, all of this is dulled by pride.” Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy, pg 74.

When you have a goal, obstacles are actually teaching you how to get where you want to go – carving you a path. “The Things which hurt,” Benjamin Franklin wrote, “instruct.

The more you do, the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get.

Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.

Most rudeness, meanness, and cruelty are a mask for deep-seated weakness. Kindness in these situations is only possible for people of great strength. You have that strength. Use it.

Build a life you don’t need to escape from.

Remember: even what we get for free has a cost, if only in what we pay to store it – in our garages and in our minds.

Philosophy’s true use – “An operating system for life’s difficulties and hardships”.