Ryan Holiday
American author and Stoicism writer, born 1987
16 quotes.
Quotes by Ryan Holiday
- Ask yourself: If other people knew I was doing this, would I be embarrassed or ashamed? If so, it’s probably not a good thing to be doing.
- Decide who you want to be, and then do that work.
- Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.
- Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work.
- Impressing people is utterly different from being truly impressive.
- In a world of distraction, focusing is a superpower.
- In every situation, life is asking us a question, and our actions are the answer.
- Mental and spiritual independence matter little if the things we own in the physical world end up owning us.
- The extent of the struggle determines the extent of the growth. The obstacle is an advantage, not adversity. The enemy is any perception that prevents us from seeing this.
- The less energy we waste regretting the past or worrying about the future, the more energy we will have for what’s in front of us.
- The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
- There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.
- There is nothing worth doing that is not scary. There is no one who has achieved greatness without wrestling with their own doubts, anxieties, limitations, and demons.
- Think progress, not perfection.
- You only control the effort, not the results.
- Your potential, the absolute best you're capable of—that's the metric to measure yourself against.