Welcome! Here you’ll find inspiring quotes to motivate and guide you. Browse by topics like writing, success, and more to find some inspirational words for your day.
Tech for good
- The ultimate goal should be to improve the quality of human life through digital innovation. - Pony Ma Huateng
Life
- If you want something in you life that you’ve never had, you will have to do something, you’ve never done. - JD Houston
Happiness
By Vivekananda:
- As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.
- Happiness and misery are the obverse and reverse of the same coin; he who takes happiness, must take misery also. We all have this foolish idea that we can have happiness without misery, and it has taken such possession of us that we have no control over the senses.
- Real happiness is not in the senses but above the senses; and it is in every man.
Work
- It almost doesn’t matter what you know. It’s what you can do with whatever you know or can acquire and actually accomplish that tends to be valued. - Andrew Grove (3rd CEO of Intel Corporation)
- The best practitioners understand not just how to accomplish a task but also why. - Sari Greene
Writing
An essential aspect of getting your work done is allowing yourself to write a really shitty first draft. That way you can have a better second draft and a third draft & so on & so forth. - Anne Lamott, author of Bird by Bird
Very few writers really know what they’re doing until they’ve done it.
Success
- One of the most important key to success is having the discipline to do what you know you should do, even when you don’t feel like doing it.
Overthinking
- The cure to overthinking is action. Start small. Break you goals it into managable steps. 1
Choices
- We all make choices, but in the end, our choices make us. - Ken Levine
Authenticity
- Authenticity is about showing up, not about being universally approved
Showing up
- Half the battle is won just by showing up.
Miscellaneous
- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
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