< BACK TO INSIGHTS

Quotes Worth Uploading

August 9, 2026

Quotes Worth Uploading

Quotes are like software. You don't just read them. You upload them. You run them. Here are some of my favorites.

if (update.slaps === true) { return quote; }

“Every day, stand guard at the door of your mind, and you alone decide what thoughts and beliefs you let into your life.”

— Jim Rohn

“Look at things as they are, not as your emotions color them.”

— Robert Greene

“The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

“If you're stuck in traffic driving to the job that you don't like and you're frustrated, you can think of all the things that could happen to you that haven't — and if any one of them happened to you, you would consider your prayers answered if you could just be returned to this moment.”

— Sam Harris

“Every man is what he is, because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind.”

“The time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”

“You are entitled to know that two entities occupy your body. One of these entities is motivated by and responds to the impulse of fear. The other is motivated by and responds to the impulse of faith. Will you be guided by faith or will you allow fear to overtake you?”

— Napoleon Hill

“Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.”

— Unknown

“Don't be overheard complaining… not even to yourself.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Volume negates luck.”

“A focused fool can accomplish more than a distracted genius.”

“Did you know that it's costing you $950,000 per year to not know how to make a million dollars a year?”

— Alex Hormozi

“Where your fear is, there is your task.”

— Carl Jung

“Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you.”

— Sri Yukteswar Giri

“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”

— Elon Musk

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping.”

“Make friends with people who want the best for you.”

“There is biological capital, and when you're young you have a lot of biological capital… A lot of what you spend your money on if you have monetary capital is the attempt to regain biological capital.”

— Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

“There is nothing noble in being superior to another person. True nobility lies in being superior to the person you used to be.”

— W. L. Sheldon (1897)

“Fear is a sensation. Courage is a decision.”

“Neuroplasticity is initiated when we are in somewhat uncomfortable states that involve frustration, errors, and failures.”

— Andrew Huberman

“The people who win aren't the smartest or the fastest. They're just the ones who kept doing the boring shit long enough until it started working.”

“Nobody remembers your mistakes as much as you do.”

“You can't think your way out of feelings. But you can act your way into new ones.”

— Mark Manson

“You're never going to get rich renting out your time.”

— Naval Ravikant

“You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.”

— Olin Miller

“The magic you're looking for is in the work you're avoiding.”

— Chris Williamson

“I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do.”

— Charlie Munger

“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”

“Tiny improvements compound. Tiny declines compound too — just in the opposite direction.”

— James Clear

“They say time flies but with the way the airlines are going these days maybe time should take the bus.”

— Peggy Hill

“I find that a duck's opinion of me is very much influenced over whether or not I have bread.”

— Mitch Hedberg

“You can't put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken.”

— Dr. Phil

“It is better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.”

— Japanese Proverb

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”

— Bruce Lee

“Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan.”

— Tony Robbins

“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

“That which does not kill me makes me stronger.”

— Nietzsche

“Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.”

— John Lennon

“One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey than with a hundred barrels of vinegar.”

— St. Francis de Sales

“What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?”

— Jesus Christ, Mark 8:36

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart.”

— Proverbs 3:5

“As iron sharpens iron, one person sharpens another.”

— Proverbs 27:17

“There's no such thing as a free lunch.”

— Milton Friedman

“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”

— Albert Einstein

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

— Jimi Hendrix

“When you have a problem, pretend you're giving clear, honest advice to a friend who has the exact same issue. Say (or write) what you'd tell them. Then apply that same advice to yourself.”

— Solomon's Paradox

“An artist has gotta be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's at somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming.”

“He not busy being born is busy dying.”

— Bob Dylan

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.”

— Ayn Rand

“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

— Dylan Thomas