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?
“Be excellent to each other”
Jobs was such a piece of shit, anything positive he said I just can’t digest it. Fuck that guy.
“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)
"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.
Financial advice:
Mr. Simpson, your intelligence profile indicates that you’re too… “stupid” to stick to a budget.
-Yes. Go on.
So, let me put this simply. You need more money.
-But how do I get it?
I’m a financial planner, not a financial consultant. Sorry.
“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”
“Cheating is the gift man gives himself”
-C. Montgomery Burns, https://youtu.be/iLzoi1ndQH8
In my family it was:
“If he’s bigger‘en you, get yerself an equalizer”
The point is the same, no one voluntarily goes in to a fight they think is fair. They “cheated“ before you got involved. It’s foolish not to cheat back.
Life sucks… And then you die.
This is my personal favourite
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 is far too serious for me to take it seriously.”
“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”.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Anais Nin
“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
Some things are in our control and others not.
Epictitus, The Enchiridion
“Though the grease burns out of the torch, the fire passes on, and no one knows where it ends.” -Zhuangzi
“fuck it”
-self help Singh
