Quote Library

“The sword is the soul of the warrior.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

The Book of Five Rings

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“The spirit of the samurai is a flame that burns in the heart.”

— Yukio Mishima

“The obstacle is the way.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

“Be water, my friend.”

— Bruce Lee

“You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft that you will die without ever realizing your true potential.”

— David Goggins

“The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”

— Nikola Tesla

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

— Albert Einstein

“Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakes.”

— Carl Jung

“The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.”

— David Ogilvy

“The foundation of wealth is judgment, not time.”

— Naval Ravikant

“Pain + Reflection = Progress.”

— Ray Dalio

Principles

“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Twilight of the Idols

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude.”

— Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

“The hero's journey is the path to transformation.”

— Joseph Campbell

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”

— Alan Watts

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

— Epictetus

Enchiridion