Ryan Holiday Quotes
The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.
Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.
You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.
There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.
What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.
Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation—without the pestilence of panic or fear.
Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.
True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.
An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.
Am I saying this because I want to prove how smart I am or am I saying this because it needs to be said?
When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?
We decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we’ll break or whether we’ll resist.
It angers me to see armed defenders at the bottom of Lost Cause statues, adding a renewed threat of violence to icons that are themselves part of an ideology of violence and intimidation.
You know what's better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.
Leveraging community intelligence and making connections is a key component to being a growth hacker.
Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success - but it's there in some of the greatest stories of failure and self-implosion as well.
Publicity does not come easily, profits do not come easily, and knowledge does not come easily.
You’re not as good as you think. You don’t have it all figured out. Stay focused. Do better.
This is a fundamental irony of most people’s lives. They don’t quite know what they want to do with their lives. Yet they are very active.
When you can break apart something, or look at it from some new angle, it loses its power over you.
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.
Let others slap each others on the back while you're back in the lab or the gym or pounding the pavement.