It’s a disgrace in this life when the soul surrenders first while the body refuses to.
Marcus Aurelius
Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?
Lao tzu
For water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
Plutarch
The pain of trying and failing is intense and over rather quickly. The pain of failing to try, on the other hand, is less intense but never really goes away.
Shane Parrish
Bear without murmuring what cannot be changed.
Publius Syrus
Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
One day of effort is one day of bliss; One day of sloth is a hundred years of regret.
Awa Kenzô
Remember how long you’ve been putting this off…that there is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don’t use it to free yourself it will be gone and will never return.
Marcus Aurelius
Everything comes in its own time. Everything comes when you are ripe.” Everything comes when you deserve it – this is my experience.
Osho
Don’t be afraid of the dark! It’s one thing we should learn to get used to. Dark times are not hopeless times. Make your mind adjust even though the only thing it wants to do is run away. The more we face hardships in life, the easier it will become to navigate the darkness.
David Goggins
Don’t give up. Remember, it’s always the last key on the key ring that opens the door.
Paulo Coelho
Be ready to pay the price of your dreams. Free cheese can only be found in a mousetrap.
Paulo Coelho
The moment you give up, is the moment you let someone else win.
Kobe Bryant
It’s easy to get stuck in your first plan. Don’t give up when that one fails (and it probably will). Take what you learned and change the plan, not your resolve to achieve the goal.
Mel Robbins
A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, “Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
Leo Tolstoy
Take your time, don’t rush. Some problems are harder than others. Deal with the ones right in front of you first. Come back to the others later. You’ll get there.
Ryan Holiday
If you do enough small things right, big things can happen.
John Wooden
To keep on going, you have to keep up the rhythm.
Haruki Murakami
Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want something.
Randy Pausch
If you can just maintain that consistent energy in one direction, it’s incredible what you could deflect over a long period of time.
Shane Parrish
If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.
Banksy
With energy and high morale, a human can overcome almost any obstacle and create opportunity out of nothing.
Robert Greene
It’s the one thing you can control. You are responsible for how people remember you — or don’t. So don’t take it lightly.
Kobe Bryant
No matter how small the step, forward is forward.
Mel Robbins
The perfection of virtue is born in struggle.
Meister Eckhart
Rest at the end, not at the middle.
Kobe Bryant
You must take action. You must do the impossible. Because giving up can never ever be an option.
Greta Thunberg
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
Earl Nightingale
Things that last are built slowly. Better to be slow and solid than fast and frail.
Maxime Lagacé
Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
John D. Rockefeller
Everything you want is on the far side of hard work.
Tim Kennedy
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Abraham Lincoln
Never let anyone else tell you what is possible.
Shane Parrish
Anyone can start something. No one quits right before the prize. The middle sets people apart.
Johnny Uzan
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Aristotle
You can win a lot in life just by being the last one to give up.
James Clear
Tonight we cry, we despair, and we fear. Tomorrow we get back to work trying to build the world we want.
Sam Altman
The greatest secret in the world is that there are no secrets. There is only hard work, timing, and luck.
Ed Latimore
When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.
Paulo Coelho
It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
Vince Lombardi