Investor · Clinton, MS · Member since 2019 · 83 posts · 85 votes
I believe quotes are a powerful tool. They provide a boost of quick knowledge and motivation. I would love to hear your favorites and why they are.
"Don't wait for the perfect opportunity: create it." -George Benard Shaw
I love this because it symbolizes the truth that nothing is going to be given it must be earned/taken. When I read it each day, I am naturally shifted into an action taking mindset.
Those are great. What inspired you to come up with the first one?
The obvious shortness of life. Yesterday I was garage band jamming in HS and chasing girls. Today I'm gray, bald, overweight and arthritic. What the hell happened?
Los Angeles, CA · Member since 2018 · 6 posts · 6 votes
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“There is little progress in the comfort zone, and little comfort in the progress zone.”
This one speaks to me. Life can definitely be good living in comfort, but it is much better when I push myself to be something greater albeit uncomfortable.
Investor · San Antonio, TX · Member since 2018 · 18 posts · 11 votes
7y
Big thing for me is stepping out of my comfort zone and pushing through fear:
"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."
Piscataway New Jersey · Member since 2019 · 29 posts · 11 votes
7y
@Nathan Killebrew
‘You can have more than you got, because you can be more than you are’ -Jim Rohn
I love this quote because it speaks to a growth mindset, continue to better yourself and your life will act accordingly. 6 months ago I dropped out of college with no motivation until I began developing myself to the point where I plan to have my first property by the time I’m 20, I’m moving to Chicago with sales job, I have a better relationship with my family, and somehow..I’m making more money than I ever have.
Investor · Boston, MA · Member since 2015 · 1k+ posts · 3k+ votes
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
Los Angeles, CA · Member since 2019 · 512 posts · 301 votes
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@Nathan Killebrew “If title dictated my behavior as a clerk serving the public, I wouldn't be allowed to spit water at that guy, but I did. So, my point is that people dictate their own behavior. “
Basically anything Randall says in Clerks and what the contractor says about working on the Death Star.
Read a lot of quotes growing up so it’s the cheeky ones that stick out to me
Rental Property Investor · Minneapolis, MN · Member since 2017 · 106 posts · 39 votes
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@Nathan Killebrew “I have about concludes that wealth is a state of mind,and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.” - Andrew Young