quotes i live by

"Burn the boats." -- Hernan Cortes

"Maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. Maybe it's about unbecoming everything that isn't really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place." -- Paulo Coelho

"To thine own self be true." -- William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." -- Leonardo da Vinci

"Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"And now, the end is near... I did it my way." -- Frank Sinatra

"You cannot live your life in fear, or you will forsake the best parts of it." -- Daemon Targaryen, House of the Dragon

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." -- Lao Tzu

"Do, or do not. There is no try." -- Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back

"Action produces information." -- Brian Armstrong

"Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking." -- Antonio Machado

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." -- Wayne Gretzky

"Stupid is as stupid does." -- Forrest Gump

"It's not about how hard you row, it's about what boat you're in." -- Warren Buffett

"Competition is for losers." -- Peter Thiel

"Play long-term games with long-term people." -- Naval Ravikant

"You don't rise to your goals. You fall to your systems." -- James Clear

"I think I've been in the top 5% of my age cohort almost all my adult life in understanding the power of incentives, and yet I've always underestimated that power. Never a year passes but I get some surprise that pushes my limit a little farther." -- Charlie Munger

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool." -- Richard Feynman

"All models are wrong, but some are useful." -- George Box

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." -- Niels Bohr

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." -- Bertrand Russell

"In the fields of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind." -- Louis Pasteur

"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." -- Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw

"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible." -- T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom

"It is not the critic who counts... The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood... who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"Pursue excellence, success will follow." -- 3 Idiots

"Do something that's sexy. That's what makes it exciting." -- Feng Zhang

"Change is the only constant." -- Heraclitus

"What we do in life echoes in eternity." -- Maximus, Gladiator

"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough... but when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death's final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing." -- Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." -- Nietzsche