Hero, Vol. 4 Quotes
“I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”
-Pablo Picasso
“Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind.
Be led by the dreams in your heart.”
-Roy T. Bennett
“He attacked everything in life with a mix of
extraordinary genius and naïve incompetence,
and it was often difficult to tell which was which.”
-Douglas Adams
“Live like a hero.
That’s what the classics teach us.
Be a main character. Otherwise, what is life for?”
-J.M. Coetzee
“Wealth after all is a relative thing
since he that has little and wants less
is richer than he that has much and wants more.”
-Charles Caleb Colton
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”
-Winston Churchill
“Being rich is not about how much money you have
or how many homes you own; it’s the freedom to
buy any book you want without looking at the
price and wondering if you can afford it.”
-John Waters
“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned,
to buy things they don’t want,
to impress people that they don’t like.”
-Will Rogers
“If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you’ll spend your life completely wasting your time. You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing things you don’t like doing, which is stupid.”
-Alan Watts
“Price is what you pay.
Value is what you get.”
-Warren Buffett
“Money is a great servant but a bad master.”
-Francis Bacon
“It isn’t clear to me that giving people money actually solves the problem of poverty. Because poverty is very much more complex than the mere lack of money, even though that is a cardinal element of poverty.”
-Jordan Peterson
“You’d be surprised what people will do for money
that they wouldn’t do for love.”
-Rachel Caine
“If you’ve got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you’ve got 71 cents left; But if you’ve got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you’ve still got seventeen grand. There’s a math lesson for you.”
-Steve Martin
“We are all self-made,
but only the successful will admit it.”
-Earl Nightingale
“Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.”
-Ambrose Bierce
“Don’t wait for something outside of yourself
to make you happy in the future. Think how
really precious is the time you have to spend,
whether it’s at work or with your family.
Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.”
-Earl Nightingale
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income
twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty
pounds ought and six, result misery.”
-Charles Dickens
“Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time
will pass anyway; we might just as well put that
passing time to the best possible use.”
-Earl Nightingale
“Only the educated are free.”
-Epictetus
“People who have goals succeed
because they know where they’re going.
It’s that simple.”
-Earl Nightingale
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
-Peter Drucker
“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries,
and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”
-Zig Ziglar
“Success is the progressive realization
of a worthy goal or ideal.”
-Earl Nightingale
“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.”
-Steve Jobs
“Our life is frittered away by detail.
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a
hundred or a thousand. Simplify, simplify!”
-Henry David Thoreau
“The Seven Social Sins are:
Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.”
-Frederick Lewis Donaldson
“There’s no scarcity of opportunity to make
a living at what you love; there is only a
scarcity of resolve to make it happen.”
-Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
“He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.”
-Victor Hugo
“Making money isn’t hard in itself.
What’s hard is to earn it doing something
worth devoting one’s life to.”
-Carlos Ruiz Zafón
“Time is the most valuable coin in your life.
You and you alone will determine how that coin
will be spent. Be careful that you do not let
other people spend it for you.”
-Carl Sandburg
“The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you’re the pilot.”
-Michael Altshul
“When we combine the idea of prosperity with an intention for our highest good and the highest
good of all life, we create true wealth.”
-Amy Leigh Mercree
“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“We need the best plumbers. We need the best contractors. We need the best carpenters. We need the best lecturers. There has to be a hierarchy of quality. Not only so that we know who the best are and can reward them properly, but so that we can reward them so they keep being the best. If you have a great educator, if you have a great leader, if you have a great thinker, you want to reward them so
they keep thinking and they keep educating. So they
can tell you something. It’s not a reward for their
intrinsic being. It’s a calculated move on your part,
to suck everything out of them that’s valuable as fast as
you can. That’s what a hierarchy of competence is for.”
-Jordan Peterson
“They say a person needs just three things
to be truly happy in this world:
someone to love,
something to do,
and something to hope for.”
-Tom Bodett
“Do not wait: the time will never be ‘just right.’
Start where you stand, and work whatever tools
you may have at your command and better tools
will be found as you go along.”
-Napoleon Hill
“Love in your heart
is better than gold in your hands.”
-Matshona Dhliwayo
“If you can’t do great things,
do small things in a great way.”
-Napoleon Hill
“The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know. Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough.”
-John Adams
“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
-Mark Twain
“In the midst of chaos,
there is also opportunity.”
-Sun Tzu
“What if the only thing standing in the way of your
greatness was that you just had to go after
everything obsessively, persistently, and as
though your life depended on it?”
-Grant Cardone
“You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have
got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.”
-Matt Damon, Good Will Hunting
“Remember that your real wealth can be measured not by what you have, but by what you are.”
-Napoleon Hill
“Don’t let mental blocks control you.
Set yourself free.
Confront your fear
and turn the mental blocks
into building blocks.”
-Dr. Roopleen
“Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.”
-Louisa May Alcott
“Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.”
-Louisa May Alcott
“Libraries will get you through times of
no money better than money will get you
through times of no libraries.”
-Anne Herbert
“Top 15 things money can’t buy:
Time.
Happiness.
Inner Peace.
Integrity.
Love.
Character.
Manners.
Health.
Respect.
Morals.
Trust.
Patience.
Class.
Common sense.
Dignity.”
-Roy T. Bennett
Note: Every one of those is wrong. If you don’t believe me, consider the wealth of a book.
“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.”
-Michelangelo Buonarroti
“In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don’t try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.”
-Lao Tzu
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary
is that little extra.”
-Jimmy Johnson
“The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If you don’t write when you don’t have time for it,
you won’t write when you do have time for it.”
-Katerina Stoykova Klemer
“When he worked, he really worked.
But when he played, he really played.”
-Dr. Seuss
“This is the real secret of life—to be completely engaged
with what you are doing in the here and now.
And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”
-Alan Watts
“The type of person you are is usually reflected in your business. To improve your business, first improve yourself.”
-Idowu Koyenikan
“Action may not always bring happiness,
but there is no happiness without action.”
-William James
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams,
and follow your star, you’ll still get beaten by
people who spent their time working hard
and learning things and weren’t so lazy.”
-Terry Pratchett
“I’m a greater believer in luck,
and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“When bakers get together, they discuss art.
When artists get together, they discuss money.”
-Oscar Wilde
“The artist is nothing without the gift,
but the gift is nothing without work.”
-Émile Zola
“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
-Gustave Flaubert
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap
but by the seeds that you plant.”
-Robert Louis Stevenson
Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What’s a sundial in the shade?”
-Benjamin Franklin
“Work without love is slavery.”
-Mother Teresa
“We often miss opportunity
because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
-Thomas A. Edison
“Without ambition one starts nothing.
Without work one finishes nothing.
The prize will not be sent to you.
You have to win it.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Money is only a tool.
It will take you wherever you wish,
but it will not replace you as the driver.”
-Ayn Rand
“Every man, woman, and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident, or miscalculation
… or by madness.”
-John F. Kennedy
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”-Aristotle
“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
-Albert Camus
“We may encounter many defeats
but we must not be defeated.”
-Maya Angelou
“Every day is a bank account, and time is our currency.
No one is rich, no one is poor, we’ve got 24 hours each.”
-Christopher Rice
“Out of clutter, find simplicity.”
-Albert Einstein
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart,
so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
-Rumi
“You never know what worse luck
your bad luck has saved you from.”
-Cormac McCarthy
“When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail
once more toward your coveted goal.”
-Napoleon Hill
“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance.
Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve,
its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.’”
-Dave Barry
“Ever tried.
Ever failed.
No matter.
Try Again.
Fail again.
Fail better.”
-Samuel Beckett
“The strength of the team is each individual member.
The strength of each member is the team.”
-Phil Jackson
“Try not to become a person of success,
but rather try to become a person of value.”
-Albert Einstein
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy,
not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
-Socrates
“To get the full value of joy
you must have someone to divide it with.”
-Mark Twain
“Life is a shipwreck,
but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
-Voltaire
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
-Alice Walker
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing:
the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
-Viktor E. Frankl
“When I have a little money, I buy books;
and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
-Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
“The best investment is in the tools on one’s own trade.”
-Benjamin Franklin
“Faith and fear both demand you believe in
something you cannot see.”
-Bob Proctor
“Act according to your principles,
not your mood.”
-Goethe
“It’s the start that stops most people.”
-Don Shula
“You are the only problem you will ever have and you are the only solution. Change is inevitable, personal growth is always a personal decision.”
-Bob Proctor“
Get your ideas on paper and study them.
Do not let them go to waste!”
-Les Brown
“I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who
live what they teach—who walk their talk.”
-Tony Robbins
“Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
-Albert Schweitzer
“The more your money works for you,
the less you have to work for money.”
-Idowu Koyenikan
“When you work on something that only has
the capacity to make you 5 dollars, it does
not matter how much harder you work—
the most you will make is 5 dollars.”
-Idowu Koyenikan
“Nothing is really work unless you would
rather be doing something else.”
-J.M. Barrie
“There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas,
what’s missing is the will to execute them.”
-Seth Godin
“Trust isn’t just the greatest currency,
it’s the only currency. Once trust is gone in
any form of currency, the value is gone.”
-Richie Norton
“If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.”
-Simon Sinek
“Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.”
-Warren Buffett
“Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.”
-Maya Angelou
“If you want to stand out from the crowd,
give people a reason not to forget you.”
-Richard Branson
“You see things; you say, ‘Why?’
But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’”
-George Bernard Shaw
“Success is not final;
failure is not fatal:
it is the courage to continue that counts.”
-Winston Churchill
“Many of life’s failure are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
-Thomas Edison
“Your past does not equal your future.”
-Tony Robbins
“In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people, and then getting out of their way.”
-Tina Fey
“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.”
-Benjamin Franklin
“The most important thing to do if you find
yourself in a hole is to stop digging.”
-Warren Buffett
Five Rules of Acquisition from the Ferengi Empire:
3: Never spend more for an acquisition than you have to.
8: Small print leads to large risk.
34: War is good for business.
35: Peace is good for business.
217: Always know what you’re buying.
“Work never killed anyone.
It’s worry that does the damage.
And the worry would disappear
if we’d just settle down and do the work.”
-Earl Nightingale
“Set your house in perfect order
before you criticize the world.”
-Jordan Peterson
“Do not save what is left after spending,
but spend what is left after saving.”
-Warren Buffett
“He who buys what he does not need,
steals from himself.”
-Swedish Proverb
“The price of anything
is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
-Henry David Thoreau
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection
not when there is nothing left to add,
but when there is nothing left to take away.”
-Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
“Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly.
It’s your masterpiece, after all.”
-Nathan W. Morris
“Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have
and undervaluing what you do.”
-Jordan Peterson
“It is right to be content with what we have,
but never with what we are.”
-Sir James Mackintosh
“He who is not contented with what he has,
would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
-Socrates
“A big group of daily friends or a white painted house with bills and mirrors, are not a necessity to me
—but an intelligent conversation
while sharing another coffee, is.”
-Charlotte Eriksson
“Your home is living space, not storage space.”
-Francine Jay
“If you cannot afford yourself any luxuries for the time being, at least offer yourself the one priceless luxury no one can take away from you―your time”
-Lauren Klarfeld
“I always tried to turn every disaster
into an opportunity.”
-John D. Rockefeller
“Eyes blinded by the fog of things cannot see truth.
Ears deafened by the din of things cannot hear truth.
Brains bewildered by the whirl of things cannot think truth. Hearts deadened by the weight of things cannot feel truth. Throats choked by the dust of things cannot speak truth.”
-Harold Bell Wright
Midas wished everything he touched would turn into gold. He thought his greed would enrich him beyond
his most fanciful dreams. But when touching his
daughter to comfort her woes, she turned from
an invaluable woman into meaningless gold.
“It’s no accident that most ads are pitched to people in their 20s and 30s. Not only are they so much cuter than their elders … but they are less likely to have gone through the transformative process of cleaning out their deceased parents’ stuff. Once you go through that, you can never look at ‘your’ stuff in the same way. You start to look at your stuff a little postmortemistically. If you’ve lived more than two decades
as an adult consumer, you probably have quite the accumulation, even if you’re not a hoarder … I’m not
saying I never buy stuff, because I absolutely do. Maybe I’m less naive about the joys of accumulation.”
-Roz Chast
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
If you could only love enough,
you could be the most powerful person in the world.”
-Emmet Fox
“We are not limited by our old age;
we are liberated by it.”
-Stu Mittleman
“Business is the art of extracting money from another man’s pocket without resorting to violence.”
-Max Amsterdam
“Try not to become a man of success
but rather try to become a man of value.”
-Albert Einstein
“Even if you are on the right track,
you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
-Will Rodgers
“Don’t mistake activity with achievement.”
-John Wooden
“Rather than love,
than money,
than fame,
give me truth.”
-Henry David Thoreau
“I am thankful for all of those who said no to me.
It’s because of them, I’m doing it myself.”
-Albert Einstein
“You can get excited about the future.
The past won’t mind.”
-Hillary DePiano
“Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”
-Albert Einstein
“Let us consider that we are all partially insane.
It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.”
-Mark Twain
“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly.
One must be sane to think clearly, but one can
think deeply and be quite insane.”
-Nikola Tesla
“If you question anything enough, eventually you will begin to doubt it. This is a tremendously effective strategy for shedding disempowering beliefs. I mean, haven’t you done this with yourself? Aren’t there areas in your life where you’ve doubted yourself? How’d you do it? You asked yourself lousy questions like what if I screw up? What if I don’t follow through? What if I forget what I’m supposed to do? And if you asked yourself enough of these questions then you began to doubt yourself. Why not use this force for good, and use it to destroy the limiting beliefs in your life? And as you question an old belief, it begins to build up evidence to support your new beliefs, ones that will empower you. Give it legs [like a table needs legs for support]. If you build up a belief enough, it will become something even stronger. It becomes a conviction. A conviction now is a belief that is reinforced by even more powerful references. It’s an irresistible force for change. For example, let’s say you decided never to eat meat again. To strengthen your resolve, talk to people who have chosen a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle. What reasons prompted them to change their diet, and what have been the consequences on their health and other areas of their life? What benefits have they received? In addition, begin to study the physiological impact that animal protein has on our bodies. The more references you develop, the more emotional these references are, the stronger your conviction will become. It becomes a conviction if you decide to go to a slaughterhouse and watch what’s being destroyed in front of your very eyes, and what you’re going to eat. I can promise you then, it will go from a belief you shouldn’t do this, into a conviction that says, ‘I couldn’t consume this ever again!’ Third, find a triggering event that will push you over the edge. Or else create one of your own,
just as I’ve described.”
-Tony Robbins
“If you think anyone is sane,
you just don’t know enough about them.”
-Christopher Moore
“I don’t think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don’t know who we are as
individuals in this culture anymore.”
-Naomi Judd
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
-Blaise Pascal
“It is necessary now and then for a man to
go away by himself and experience loneliness;
to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself,
‘Who am I, and where have I been, and where
am I going?’ … If one is not careful, one allows
diversions to take up one’s time―the stuff of life.”
-Carl Sandburg
“In order to understand the world,
one has to turn away from it on occasion.”
-Albert Camus
“The deeper I go into myself
the more I realize that I am my own enemy.”
-Floriano Martins
“‘But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,’ faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. ‘Business!’ cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. ‘Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were all my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the
comprehensive ocean of my business!’”
-Charles Dickens
“If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one.”
-Robert Brault
“It is good to love many things,
for therein lies the true strength,
and whosoever loves much performs much,
and can accomplish much,
and what is done in love is well done.”
-Vincent Van Gogh
“Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.
Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
Perhaps the action you take will be successful;
perhaps different action or adjustments will have
to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.”
-Norman Vincent Peale
“There is no coming to consciousness without pain.”
-Carl Jung
“Your wealth is not defined by your capacity to accumulate, rather by your capacity to give away.”
-Manoj Arora
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.”
-Rabindranath Tagore
“Life is so subtle that sometimes you
barely notice yourself walking through
the doors you once prayed would open.”
-Brianna Wiest
“Do you remember those days? Do you remember dreaming about being a champion, making a difference, making history? Don’t we all dream about making our family proud? To some extent, we all want to be heroes. We have a desire to deliver for our loved ones, the ones who count on us, to earn their love and respect. Hollywood makes money by creating movies to make us believe for a split second that we can be Rocky, Rudy, Patton, or Alexander the Great. The downside is that we spend time and money to watch that hero instead
of being that hero ourselves.”
-Patrick Bet-David
“I want, what they want, and every other guy who came over here and spilled his guts and gave everything he had, wants! For our country to love us as much as we love it! That’s what I want!”
-Rambo“
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony.
There is time for work.
And time for love.
That leaves no other time.”
-Coco Chanel
“Life had gotten too busy.
It seemed as if my existence had
become just one long to-do list. I had
forgotten about my dreams, my goals,
my what-ifs, my ‘what if I could’s.’”
-Amy Haines
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
-Anaïs Nin
“Be so good they can’t ignore you.”
-Steve Martin
“You can only become truly
accomplished at something you love.
Don’t make money your goal.
Instead pursue the things you love doing
and then do them so well that
people can’t take their eyes off of you.”
-Maya Angelou
“If you light a lamp for someone else,
it will also brighten your path.”
-Buddha