Ryan Holiday Quotes

Because though our doubts (and self-doubts) feel real, they have very little bearing on what is and isn't possible.

You cry, I’m suffering severe pain! Are you then relieved from feeling it, if you bear it in an unmanly way? —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 78.17

Through our perception of events, we are complicit in the creation—as well as the destruction—of every one of our obstacles.

It’s much easier to control our perceptions and emotions than it is to give up our desire to control other people and events.

The next step after we discard our expectations and accept what happens to us, after understanding that certain things—particularly bad things—are outside our control, is this: loving whatever happens...

Today, will you be part of the problem or part of the solution? Will you hear the wisdom of the world or drown it out with more noise?

Today, though, if someone were to hand you a hundred-dollar bill, you might rub it between your fingers or hold it up to the light, just to confirm it wasn’t a fake. All this for an imaginary currency...

We’re all full of anxieties, doubts, impotence, pains, and sometimes a little tinge of crazy.

Virality at its core is asking someone to spend their social capital recommending or linking or posting about you for free.

It’s three interdependent, interconnected, and fluidly contingent disciplines: Perception, Action, and the Will.

You thought it would get easier when you arrived; instead, it’s even harder—a different animal entirely. What you found is that you must manage yourself in order to maintain your success.

Sometimes being superficial—taking things only at first glance—is the most profound approach.

Think of what you have been putting off. Issues you declined to deal with. Systemic problems that felt too overwhelming to address. Dead time is revived when we use it as an opportunity to do what we’...

Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life, he once said. I shall never cease to be grateful for the three and half years of apprenticeship and the diffi...

I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent—no one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you. —SENECA, ON PROVID...

The orator Demosthenes once said that virtue begins with understanding and is fulfilled by courage.

Next, we must examine our impulses to act—that is, our motivations. Are we doing things for the right reasons? Or do we act because we haven’t stopped to think? Or do we believe that we have to do som...

Product Market Fit is a feeling backed with data and information.

If what’s up to us is the playing field, then what is not up to us are the rules and conditions of the game. Factors that winning athletes make the best of and don’t spend time arguing against (becaus...

Too many people think that great victories like Grant’s and Edison’s came from a flash of insight. That they cracked the problem with pure genius. In fact, it was the slow pressure, repeated from many...