“We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue our creative work. We want respect from our peers and recognition for our accomplishments. Not out of vanity or selfishness, but of an earnest desire to fulfill our personal potential.”
"Control your perceptions. Direct your actions properly. Willingly accept what’s outside your control."
- Ryan Holiday
Awareness
"We are not in control of pain. No matter how hard we try. Not of the cause or the duration – only the response."
- Ryan Holiday
Awareness
"We go through our days responding and reacting, but it’s rare to really pause and ask: Is this thing I’m about to do consistent with what I believe? Or, better: Is this the kind of thing the person I would like to be should do? The work of living is to set standards and then not compromise them."
- Ryan Holiday
Integrity
"The purpose of reading is not just raw knowledge. It’s that it is part of the human experience. It helps you find meaning, understand yourself, and make your life better."
- Ryan Holiday
Personal Growth
"Doing great work is a struggle. It's draining, it's demoralizing, it's frightening - not always, but it can feel that way when we're deep in the middle of it."
- Ryan Holiday
Hard Work
"You are the hope of Israel, ‘children of the promised day’!"
- President Russell M. Nelson
Aspirations
"If you can dream it, you can do it."
- Walt Disney
Aspirations
"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway."
- Earl Nightingale
Aspirations
"You dream. You plan. You reach. There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself and those around you, there are no limits."
- Michael Phelps
Aspirations
"Everyone's dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard."
- Serena Williams
Aspirations