Here’s one I love: “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs.
It always motivates me to focus on my passions. What’s a quote that inspires you?
Jobs was such a piece of shit, anything positive he said I just can’t digest it. Fuck that guy.
Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.
–Kent M. Keith
Life sucks… And then you die.
This is my personal favourite
“Win if you can, lose if you must, but always, always cheat.”
I’m told this creed is an invention of a family member, but if I’m following the message it’s almost certainly stolen from somewhere.
I’m also a big fan of “Anything worth doing is a worth doing half-assed”
"Be the change you want to see in the world.”
I live by the rule that I imagine everyone doing what I’m doing. If everyone doing it would make the world a worse place, then I don’t do it. Conversely, if it would make the world better, I go for it. This mindset makes even small charitable acts feel meaningful—because while my individual contribution may be minor, if everyone did that little thing too, we’d all be much better off.
“fuck it”
-self help Singh
“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”
David Foster Wallace (although he may have been quoting someone else)
Better a pig than a fascist
Porco Rosso
“Why should I kill myself? It’s everyone else that sucks!”
Forgot where it came from, though. Bender, from Futurama?
Oh that reminds me of something funny my old psychiatrist told me: when people complain that everybody hates them, he responds: how can that be true? You haven’t even met everyone yet!
Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
– Conan
Actually that’s a (albeit debated) quote from Genghis Khan.
“The injury that is to be done to a man should be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge. “
- Machiavelli
“We are made of starstuff” – Carl Sagan
It’s inspiration to me because it always reminds me of our insignificantly small and momentary place in this universe.
This too shall pass
Good things too.
“We choose to go to the moon” was the first thing that popped into my mind.
And related to OPs quote. “If you love your job, you’ll never work a day in your life”.
“If it is too hard to cope with failure, how can you ever be able to handle success?” -Unknown.
