Ryan Holiday

In every situation, life is asking us a question, and our actions are the answer. Our job is simply to answer well.

Ryan Holiday

Just because the conditions aren’t exactly to your liking, or you don’t feel ready yet, doesn’t mean you get a pass. If you want momentum, you’ll have to create it yourself, right now, by getting up and getting started.

Ryan Holiday

Just because your mind tells you that something is awful or evil or unplanned or otherwise negative doesn’t mean you have to agree. Just because other people say that something is hopeless or crazy or broken to pieces doesn’t mean it is. We decide what story to tell ourselves.

Ryan Holiday

Life is hard, but we make it much harder.

Ryan Holiday

Problems are rarely as bad as we think – or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.

Ryan Holiday

The only relationship between work and chatter is that one kills the other.

Ryan Holiday

This is a fundamental irony of most people’s lives. They don’t quite know what they want to do with their lives. Yet they are very active.

Ryan Holiday

To argue, to complain, or worse, to just give up, these are choices. Choices that more often than not, do nothing to get us across the finish line.

Ryan Holiday

To do great things, we need to be able to endure tragedy and setbacks. We’ve got to love what we do and all that it entails, good and bad. We have to learn to find joy in every single thing that happens.

Ryan Holiday

We can’t afford to shy away from the things that intimidate us.

Ryan Holiday