Favorite Quotes

ApiVat · 2015-09-02T08:50:50+00:00

"No citizen has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... What a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable."

-Socrates

Saminess · 2015-09-02T09:37:42+00:00

"Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name."

Thomas Osbert Mordaunt

"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." - Napoleon Bonaparte

Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley

I have that one on the wall above my bed

[deleted] · 2015-09-02T13:29:50+00:00

Everything is about sex, except sex, sex is about power

Absinthe26 · 2015-09-02T14:31:18+00:00

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

-Marcus Aurelius

AU_Alex · 2015-09-02T14:15:47+00:00

I love quotes, here are some from my notebooks:

To: The Potential "Higher Man" "To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities - I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self contempt, the torture of self mistrust... I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not - that one endures." - Nietzsche

"If you're going through hell, keep going." - Churchill

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - T. Roosevelt

"Motion in the general direction of "there" by whatever means of locomotion is available, that's all that gets you there. Motion causes a change in position." -Khatzumoto

"The moment you take responsibility for everything in your life is the moment you can change anything in your life." - Chris, Good Looking Loser

"Discipline is remembering what you want." - D. Campbell

"Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most." - Zero Dean

"The doer alone learneth." - Nietzsche

"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world." - Wittgenstein

"He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know." - Lao Tzu

"The woman follows the man. In her youth she follows her father and elder brother; when married, she follows her husband; when her husband is dead, she follows her son." - Confucius

"... for your true self lies, not hidden deep within you, but immeasurably high above you, or at least above that which you normally take to be yourself." - Nietzsche

"Arbeit macht frei." / "Work sets you free."

"Women do not see guys, they see worlds." -Pook

"Repeated failure will toughen your spirit and show you with absolute clarity how things must be done." - Robert Greene, "Mastery"

"The road to wisdom is paved with excess." - Roosh V, interview with Ezra Klein of therebel.media

"Everything in moderation, including moderation." - Khatzumoto

"Obsession over passion." - Victor Pride

"No one cares about low value males." - r/trp

"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better."

"You're not in love, you're in lust and you're in ego." - Patrice O'Neal

"What if it was a gift?" - Robert Glover, "No More Mr. Nice Guy"

"I do not conquer, I submit." - Casanova

"Always go too far, because that is where you'll find the truth." - Camus

"Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it." - Camus

"Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears." - Camus

I have more of these, I'll look for where I wrote them.

TheSliceman · 2015-09-02T14:52:53+00:00

Pretty much the most RP quote ever.

“I conclude therefore that, fortune being changeful and mankind steadfast in their ways, so long as the two are in agreement men are successful, but unsuccessful when they fall out. For my part I consider that it is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman, and if you wish to keep her under it is necessary to beat and ill-use her; and it is seen that she allows herself to be mastered by the adventurous rather than by those who go to work more coldly. She is, therefore, always, woman-like, a lover of young men, because they are less cautious, more violent, and with more audacity command her.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

Bwood56 · 2015-09-02T11:25:58+00:00

Desire is created when you don't get what you want. Ambition is created when you want it bad enough.

CopyAndPaste2015 · 2015-09-02T12:44:45+00:00

Your leadership is influence. Your influence is expressed by your behaviors. Your behaviors determine your relationships with others. Your relationships with others determines your leadership success or leadership failure. Leadership is all about relationships.

From /u/RedNeck001

RedBigMan · 2015-09-02T16:14:44+00:00

When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

[deleted] · 2015-09-02T09:50:23+00:00

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jorgander · 2015-09-02T12:47:56+00:00

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

Joan Collins

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

Paul Newman

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

Blaise Pascal

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

If you look good and dress well, you don't need a purpose in life.

Robert Pante, fashion consultant:

k__s · 2015-09-02T14:02:30+00:00

something practical, from the AMA of a retired bank robber

Question:

Did you have a community of bank robbers that you would talk to?

Answer:

No. I never told anyone what I was doing. One of the main things I learned from research was that an overwhelming number of people are caught because they didn't do it solo. So I never let anyone (not even my wife or best friend) know what I was doing.

Code_Bordeauxx · 2015-09-02T07:08:43+00:00

"The true nature of people is this. They want to be controlled. By their nation, their religion, their traditions, and by figures of grand authority"

To be under good leadership is a luxury. You don't have responsibility, you don't have to think. You won't take the fall when things go wrong. Women have that luxury. We, men, do not. Not if we want to be respected and to be loved. We must be the leaders, we must set out on our own paths, we must take up responsibility. And the more we rise to power, the more we have to give up on this luxury. That is the burden of leadership. Thát is the sacrifice of men.

326695RS · 2015-09-02T10:10:09+00:00

From Deadwood by Al Swearengen:

Pain or damage don’t end the world, or despair or fucking beatings. The world ends when you’re dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man—and give some back.

Darkone06 · 2015-09-02T14:26:55+00:00

Its time to start looking inward and Begin asking yourself the big questions,

WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT DO YOU WANT?

Uncle Iroh - Avatar the last air bender.

Absinthe26 · 2015-09-02T14:34:06+00:00

“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

[deleted] · 2015-09-02T14:39:10+00:00

I'll just dump all of them from the notebooks I have, for posterity and single-source convenience:

"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are." - Max de Pree

"Life is a journey, not a destination." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Something is better than nothing, 1 is more than 0." - Khatzumoto

"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway." - Earl Nightingale

"The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but they seize us." - Ashley Montaga

"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks."- Herodotus

"Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them." - William Arthur Ward

"You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade." - Camus

"To know oneself, one should assert oneself." - Camus

"How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!" - Camus

"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it." - Camus

"When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began." - Nietzsche

"Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies." - Camus

"Life can be both magnificent and overwhelming - that is whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would be almost too easy to live." - Camus

"I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but Iwas absolutely sure about what didn't." - Camus

"If a thing is worth doing, then it is worth doing badly." - Khatzumoto

"No, you must take the necessary behavioral steps to change your life. You have a right to feel good about yourself having arrived at this understanding. Your daily actions will be more conscious and deliberate." -motivationgrid

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened." - Camus

"When you have really exhausted an experience, you always reverence and love it." - Camus

"Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity." - Socrates

"The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates

"Nothing is more taxing than prolonged idleness. You will be disenchanted first with affairs, next with pleasures, and third with idleness itself. You will seek everywhere in vain for what cannot be found. That is the problem with rest and leisure without some labor to precede it." - Louis XIV

"No one is to be found who is willing to distribute his money, yet among how many does each of us distribute his life!" - Seneca

"It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it." - Seneca

"No matter what happened to you in your past, you are not your past, you are the resources and the capabilities you glean from it. And that is the basis for all change." - Jordan Belfort

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." - Camus

"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not." - Francois de La Rouchefoucauld

"There is no love of life without despair of life." - Camus

"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better." - Camus

"Whoever loved that loved not at first sight?" - Marlowe

"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost." - Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level." - Joyce Brothers

"It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all." - Camus

"Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day." - Camus

"We are all special cases." - Camus

"The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone." - Camus

"For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life." - Camus

"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door." - Camus

Veganski · 2015-09-02T14:45:21+00:00

"We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like" - Tyler Durden

ta_menrights · 2015-09-02T15:15:44+00:00

My personal favorite when I'm scared :

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." - John A. Shedd

FUCK_YEA_GLITTER · 2015-09-02T15:23:38+00:00

You only get as far as the people you talk to for no reason - 50 cent

Here's the full video. 6 minutes, but it's got a few nuggets of gold. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvKWe36nmFU

Star_Boy_Mike · 2015-09-03T23:22:39+00:00

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!” If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son. -If, Rudyard Kipling

Not sure if this counts, but this is my go to "quote" for masculine inspiration.

redpillbanana · 2015-09-02T09:08:58+00:00

Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.

-Christopher Hitchens

juliusstreicher · 2015-09-02T13:49:23+00:00

Inspiration quotes give endorphins without the work. It's external, low quality motivation.

You you work out? Ate you socialising? Are you building value professionally?

So quotes help with this?

mrpCamper · 2015-09-02T13:26:00+00:00

"Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young." - James Taylor. It pretty much says it all without saying too much.

sirmadam · 2015-09-02T13:58:34+00:00

"Many things can be achieved in a day so long as you don't make that day tomorrow"

Does that even need explaining?

NightwingTRP · 2015-09-02T14:37:26+00:00

Got any quotes to help you keep perspective?

Motivation is one thing... but if your energy is directed poorly then it's wasted anyway. When I find things tough, I'd sooner look for ways to make it easier rather than upping my effort. My time is valuable and I can't afford to waste it where it isn't absolutely necessary.

ELRIC206 · 2015-09-02T14:56:34+00:00

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss

"We are what we repeatedly do." - Aristotle

"There is no truth." - Nietzsche

"One should interpret the world in a way that is life-affirming." - Nietzsche

"He who is not changed by life, is not living life!" - Pook

"It is out of the deepest depth that the highest must come to its height." - Nietzsche

"No human thing is of serious importance." - Plato

"What has been will be again. what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." - Ecclesiastes 1:9

"A Time for Everything There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens." - Ecclesiastes 3:1

"I know that I know nothing." - Socrates

"If you're going to spend most of your time experiencing rather than accomplishing, then perhaps it makes sense to focus on the quality of your daily experiences and not merely on the heights of your accomplishments." - Pavlina

".. you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow." - Nietzsche

"For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." - Ecclesiastes 1:18

"But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other." - Nietzsche. "The Gay Science"

티끝모아 태산. "One can build a mountain by collecting specks of dust."

시작이 반이다. "Starting is half the task."

"A man is great by deeds, not by birth. A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle simply because it perches on the top of a tall building?" - Chanakya

"As soon as fear approaches near, attack and destroy it. Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest." - Chanakya

千里之行，始於足下　－　老子　"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." - Lao Tzu

"Game is just trolling women." - Return of Kings

"We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future, men of discernment deal only with the present moment." - Chanakya

"The smallest seed of regret can bloom into redemption." - Swords to Plowshares

"Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. ... Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few." - Robert A. Heinlein, "Time Enough for Love"

"The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy." - Camus

"Our lives are always a portrait of our most dominant thoughts." - Kierkegaard

"Take responsibility. Take your power."

"All the effort you are making will ultimately pay off." [from a fortune cookie my parents gave me]

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mechdemon · 2015-09-02T15:17:42+00:00

"Pain is an illusion of the Body; Despair is an illusion of the mind - WH40k
"Nothing is Constant. Everything is funny." - Unknown
"WAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!" - Some Ork

NiftyDolphin · 2015-09-02T15:24:56+00:00

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

"Don't mistake activity with achievement."

"I was built up from my dad more than anyone else."

John Wooden

seizinglife666 · 2015-09-02T15:31:04+00:00

"In reading lives of great men, I found that the first victory was over themselves. Self-discipline with all of them came first." - Harry S. Truman

voomer53 · 2015-09-02T15:52:56+00:00

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence....Sherlock Holmes

Jakenbake781 · 2015-09-02T16:44:46+00:00

Theres a video/soundbite of allan watts telling a story about a chinese farmer. Basically the whole thing is about if something seems bad, it will most likely end up being good in the long run. I'm at work so I can't post the link, but maybe one of you guys can

Philhelm · 2015-09-02T17:58:22+00:00

"Considah dat-d-da-divorce!" -Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall

MarlboroMan62 · 2015-09-02T23:27:24+00:00

"If your going to be scared of life, you might as well stay home in bed, pull the covers over your head and hope the roof doesnt fall in on you" - Gary Bailey, World-Renowned Motocross Instructor / 1999 Motorcycle Hall of Fame

"You win your championships on your bad days" - Ricky Carmichael 10 time AMA National Motocross Champion / former Nascar Competitor

Saiserit · 2015-09-03T02:49:28+00:00

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

VasiliyZaitzev · 2015-09-03T10:01:05+00:00

"You won't always be the strongest, you won't always be the fastest, but you can always be the toughest."

"Treat'em rough to get the muff."

"When in doubt, knock'em out."

HermanRerserces · 2015-09-02T14:44:55+00:00

When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

-Confucius

Title	Favorite Quotes
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