Ryan Holiday famous quotes

03-28-2025

No one will argue that writing is an easy profession. Getting someone to pay you for your words isnâ€™t easy. But there are strategies you can use to simplify the process and transform what you can produce.
-- Ryan Holiday

#Writing #Use #Pay
Conning the conmen is one of lifeâ€™s most satisfying pleasures.
-- Ryan Holiday

#Pleasure #Conning
True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.
-- Ryan Holiday

#Ambition #Humility #Resilience
I run 5 miles every night. Itâ€™s where I go to digest my day, hash out the multitude of information thatâ€™s been poured into me in the last wild six months or so, and to try and condense it down to some sort of cohesive strategy to live my life by.
-- Ryan Holiday

#Running #Night #Trying
Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.
-- Ryan Holiday

#Way #Weakness #Good Company
The Germans have a word for it: Sitzfleisch. Staying power. Winning by sticking your ***** to the seat and not leaving until after it's over.
-- Ryan Holiday

#Winning #Leaving #Ass
Itâ€™s okay to be discouraged. Itâ€™s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress youâ€™ve decided to lay siege to in your own lifeâ€”thatâ€™s persistence.
-- Ryan Holiday

#Persistence #Feet #Want
You know whatâ€™s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.
-- Ryan Holiday

#Real #Real Life #Imagination
Great times are great softeners
-- Ryan Holiday
Our first idea is a grand opening, a big launch, a press release, or major media coverage. We default to thinking we need an advertising budget. Our delusion is that we should be Transformers and not The Blair Witch Project.
-- Ryan Holiday

#Thinking #Media #Ideas
Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.
-- Ryan Holiday

#Thinking #Problem
The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
-- Ryan Holiday

#Opportunity #Path #Obstacles
Am I saying this because I want to prove how smart I am or am I saying this because it needs to be said?
-- Ryan Holiday

#Smart #Dope #Want
We decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether weâ€™ll break or whether weâ€™ll resist.
-- Ryan Holiday

#Break #Situation
When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?
-- Ryan Holiday

#Simple #Intelligent #People
Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book
-- Ryan Holiday

#Book #World #Dollars
Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.
-- Ryan Holiday

#Focus #May #Monsters
Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.
-- Ryan Holiday

#Perspective #Perception #Body
Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situationâ€”without the pestilence of panic or fear.
-- Ryan Holiday

#Discipline #Perception #Pestilence
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

#Joy #Tragedy #Needs
Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune - really anything, everything - to their advantage.
-- Ryan Holiday

#Opposites #People #Tragedy
Failure shows us the way - by showing us what isn't the way.
-- Ryan Holiday

#Way #Shows
What Iâ€™ve learned most clearly from blogs is that the majority of them write about the problems from the outside for a reasonâ€”because they are missing the abilities that allow people to move to the inside.
-- Ryan Holiday

#Moving #Writing #People
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.
-- Ryan Holiday

#Mean #Perception #Stories
The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.
-- Ryan Holiday

#Powerful #Most Powerful #Online
What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.
-- Ryan Holiday

#Jerk #Made #Explicit
You cannot have your news instantly and have it done well. You cannot have your news reduced to 140 characters or less without losing large parts of it. You cannot manipulate the news but not expect it to be manipulated against you. You cannot have your news for free; you can only obscure the costs. If as a culture we can learn this lesson, and if we can learn to love the hard work, we will save ourselves much trouble and collateral damage. We must remember: There is no easy way.
-- Ryan Holiday

#Character #Hard Work #Culture

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