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  • Mindset

    You become unstoppable when you work on things people can’t take away from you. Mindset, character, personality.

  • Discipline

    In order to outperform others in front of everyone, you must outwork others in front of no one.

  • Action

    Stop saying one day when today can be your day one.

  • Discipline

    Don’t cry for what you’ve lost if you didn’t work for what you wanted.

  • Ambition

    How big would you dream if you knew you couldn’t fail?

  • Discipline

    Lazy people do little work and think they should be winning, winners work as hard as possible and still wonder if they’re being lazy.

  • Action

    If you find yourself dug into a hole, stop digging.

  • Discipline

    Never stop being productive.

  • Discipline

    Be like a duck, appear solemn and calm but paddle like crazy underneath.

  • Presence

    Cherish present because maybe now may be the good old days the future you will miss.

  • Discipline

    You don’t rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems.

  • Discipline

    Setting goals is not what differentiates winners from losers, because they all share the same objective. It is the systems of continual small improvement that achieves a different outcome.

  • Discipline

    You are what you repeat.

  • Mindset

    When you know the why, the how will be easy. Because if you know the why, you won’t let any obstacles stand in your way.

  • Action

    If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.

  • People

    A lot of people are holding their breath, waiting for you to fail. Make sure they suffocate.

  • People

    The smaller the storm circle, the better the players.

  • People

    People only start spectating you when you start winning.

  • Discipline

    Discipline reveals the commitment you have to your dreams, especially on the days you don’t want to.

  • Discipline

    Future you is depending on the current you to keep the promises that you made to yourself yesterday

  • Growth

    In school, you learn the lesson before you take the test. In life, you take the test before you learn the lesson.

  • Mindset

    You always have to be the person who roots for you before everyone else does.

  • People

    Being angry is like holding a burning stone in your hand hoping to throw it at someone, you might end up getting them hurt but you hurt yourself first.

  • Action

    The magic you’re looking for is in the work you’re avoiding.

  • Ambition

    Sacrifice temporary fun for permanent dreams or sacrifice your permanent dreams for temporary fun

  • People

    Comparison is the thief of joy, if you compare yourself to others, you’ll never be happy

  • Growth

    The day the blind man sees, the first thing he throws away is the stick that has helped him all his life

  • Action

    The fish ain’t jumping on the boat. So go out there and do it yourself, if you want to catch it, go catch it. The fish ain’t jumping on the boat. Go put the line out there, if it doesn’t work, do it again tomorrow, a fish will hook eventually.

  • Faith

    Maybe that thing that didn’t work out is actually the biggest blessing that happened to you. Maybe that so called failure was actually a gift. And maybe where you are right now in this moment is exactly where you need to be.

  • Growth

    Some experiences had to end so other ones could begin. And what you thought you once wanted, was nothing compared to what you actually received.

  • Faith

    Trust the path that brought you here today, because everything is unfolding, exactly, how it should be.

  • Growth

    If you only do what you can do, you’ll never be more than you are.

  • Action

    Any opportunity given should be taken seriously.

  • Discipline

    You must apply discipline, but more importantly, consistency; because without discipline, you’ll never start, and without consistency, you’ll never finish.

  • People

    When your circle is strong, you become unstoppable. So choose your company wisely.

  • Action

    Better late than never.

  • Growth

    Smell the cheese often so you know when it’s getting old.

  • Growth

    See what you’re doing wrong, laugh at it, change and do better.

  • Mindset

    Let fear prompt you into doing better but don’t let fear stop you from doing anything.

  • Growth

    The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.

  • Mindset

    When you change what you believe, you change what you do.

  • Mindset

    Imagine you got bitten by a snake with poison. Now, instead of helping yourself recover, you chased the snake, desperate to find out why and hurting yourself even more.

  • People

    You never, never ever, meet a hater doing better than you.

  • Growth

    You’re not building your resume, you’re not building accolades, you’re building yourself.

  • Resilience

    The temptation to quit is strongest just before you are about to succeed

  • Mindset

    You can’t control the wind, but you can control your sails. It’s not about what happens to you, it’s how you react.

  • Discipline

    Instead of ignoring your cravings and save money so you can be lazy, embrace your cravings and work hard to earn enough for it.

  • Growth

    It’s easier to pretend change hasn’t happened than to admit that it happens slowly.

  • People

    Don’t eat with people you wouldn’t starve with

  • People

    An athlete will never judge you for working out. A millionaire will never judge you for starting up. A musician will never judge you for singing loud. Those who judge you are purely irrelevant.

  • Action

    You don’t have to be great to start. But you have to start to be great.

  • Discipline

    Everything of value is difficult.

  • Discipline

    Everybody says Discipline is so important - But they never want to tell you why. I'll tell you why Discipline is so important - It's the strongest form of self-love. It's ignoring something you want right now for something better later on.

  • Discipline

    Discipline reveals the commitment you have to your dreams - Especially on the days when you don't want to. The future you is depending on the current you to keep the promises you made to yourself yesterday.

  • Discipline

    The man who loves walking will walk longer than the man who loves the destination.

  • Growth

    The true measure of learning is not the time and energy you put in. It’s the knowledge and skills you take out.

  • Faith

    God gives challenges to their strongest warrior.

  • Discipline

    滴水穿石

  • Presence

    Memento Morí

  • Ambition

    Become obsessed and never satisfied

  • Mindset

    If a bird lands on a branch, does it trust the tree or its wings? Many branches fall, but no birds die from falling off one.

  • Mindset

    Positivity attracts positivity. The brighter we shine the more good things we attract. Your perception of the world is shaped by the quality of your thoughts.

  • Growth

    Every lesson you learned is a foundation to what’s next.

  • Ambition

    Every success you achieve is a milestone.

  • Mindset

    You need to change how you see things in order for the things you see to change.

  • Growth

    You overestimate what you could do in a day but you underestimate what you can do in a year.

  • People

    Stop trying to be liked by everybody. You don’t even like everybody.

  • Presence

    Don’t get caught up with what could’ve been. If it should have been, it would have.

  • Action

    Direction is more important than speed.

  • Action

    It’s too hard. But you only live once.

  • Ambition

    Stay hungry, stay foolish.

  • Faith

    You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

  • Faith

    Believing the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you to the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.

  • Ambition

    If you wouldn’t do it for free, don’t do it for money.

  • Ambition

    Success does not come overnight.

  • Ambition

    If you don’t build your dreams, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.

  • Ambition

    97% of those who quit too soon are employed by the 3% who never gave up.

  • Ambition

    Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t in exchange for a life that most people can’t live.

  • Ambition

    Make a customer, not a sale.

  • Action

    The key to success is to start before you are ready.

  • Action

    The secret to getting ahead is getting started.

  • Ambition

    An entrepreneur is a doer not a dreamer.

  • Discipline

    Work like there’s someone dying to make you fail.

  • Growth

    Experience is worth more than you think.

  • Mindset

    Alter your attitude, alter your life.

  • Presence

    How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard

  • People

    The single most valuable thing: To accept help when it’s offered and to ask for it when you know you can’t do it.

  • People

    When you learn to ask for help you’ll discover that there are people all around you who’ve always wanted to help you, but just didn’t think you needed it because you kept pretending that you had everything under control.

  • Resilience

    If you’re going through hell, keep going. Why would you stop in hell?

  • Resilience

    You don’t drown by falling into water. You drown by staying in there.

  • People

    When your intentions are clear, you don’t lose people, they lose you.

  • Mindset

    We attract what we are, not what we want.

  • Ambition

    Design your dream life. If you don’t have a dream life, how are you going to reach the destination when you don’t know where you are going.

  • Action

    Action always win. Get it done, quick.

  • Resilience

    If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl. Whatever you do, keep moving forward.

  • Presence

    If you never take a moment to appreciate the climb, what is the point of reaching the top?

  • Action

    Every second you spend overthinking, hoping, doubting, someone else is out there doing.

  • People

    You can’t change the people around you, but you can change the people around you.

  • Action

    Only dead fish “go with the flow”.

  • Growth

    When I achieved my dream physique, something changed. People seemed more respectful, and treated me with kindness. But when I reflected, I realized the real transformation wasn’t in their behavior, it was in mine.

  • Growth

    I grew up as the chubby kid, but now I stand taller, speak with more confidence, and valued myself in ways I never had before. The world didn’t really change much, it was me who changed. The biggest prize wasn’t the way others saw me, but how I started seeing myself. And that’s something only you can give to yourself.

  • Resilience

    If you keep avoiding the pain, you’ll never know the strength that comes from enduring it.

  • Discipline

    You don’t stop when you’re tired, you stop when you’re done.

  • Discipline

    When you’re fit, you show the world your standards without anyone having to say a single word.

  • Mindset

    Your thoughts set the tone.

  • Resilience

    Every time you push back against doubt, every time you choose to keep going when it would be easier to stop, you're winning.

  • Growth

    Leveling up isn't a single moment. It's not a milestone you hit and coast. It's a decision you make over and over again.

  • Growth

    Every time you silence the excuses, Every time you override the fear, Every time, you remind yourself of who you're becoming.

  • Growth

    You don't wait for belief, you build it brick by brick. Until one day you look back and realize you didn't just level up... You became unstoppable.

  • Resilience

    One day your future self will thank you for not giving up today.

  • Action

    Things that seem impossible or hard doesn’t seem too hard once you look back after you’ve done it. Take the leap.

    Jocx
  • Presence

    Life’s too fast for you to always strive forward. Sometimes take a pause or you’ll miss the view.

  • Ambition

    If you don’t sacrifice for your goals, your goals will be your sacrifice.

  • Faith

    You often find your destiny on the road you took trying to avoid it.

  • People

    By the end of the day, the measure of your life isn’t what you gained, it’s what you gave to other people.

  • Discipline

    When everything is on the line, you won't magically become stronger, more disciplined or more prepared.

  • Discipline

    You will be exactly who you trained yourself to be.

  • Discipline

    You don't rise to the occasion. You fall back to your habits.

  • Resilience

    Pressure doesn't build champions. It reveals them.

  • Discipline

    It's not about what you say you'll do when it gets hard. It's about what you've already become when it does.

  • Resilience

    You won't have time to decide if you can handle it. You either are the person who pushes through. Or you're not.

  • Faith

    Do as if it all depended on you, pray as if it all depended on god.

  • Action

    Why are you scared to move onto the next chapter? You’re the author…

  • Discipline

    If you always do the bare minimum, don’t expect improvements.

  • Discipline

    Detach from the feeling, attach to the mission.

  • Resilience

    If you want to change the world, sing when you’re up to your neck in mud.

  • Discipline

    If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.

  • Discipline

    Until it’s done, tell none.

  • Discipline

    If you make your bed every morning you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride, and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another.

  • Discipline

    By the end of the day, that one task completed will have turned into many tasks completed.

  • Discipline

    Making your bed will also reinforce the fact that little things in life matter. If you can’t do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.

  • Discipline

    And, if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made — that you made — and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.

  • People

    If you want to change the world, measure a person by the size of their heart, not the size of their flippers.

  • Resilience

    If you want to change the world, get over being a sugar cookie and keep moving forward.

  • Action

    If you want to change the world, sometimes you have to slide down the obstacle head first.

  • Resilience

    If you want to change the world don’t ever, ever ring the bell.

  • Action

    You can just do things. A lot of things. Just do it.

  • Faith

    Sometimes god will wreck your plans so your plans don’t wreck you.

  • Faith

    The universe will never give you peace on something you were never meant to settle in.

  • Faith

    Very soon, you will smile and say: This is more than I prayed for.

  • Faith

    Chase god more than we chase people so god will give you people you don’t have to chase.

  • Faith

    Don’t use your energy on worrying, use it on believing, trusting, growing, manifesting, and healing.

  • Faith

    God has removed you from a table where you used to sit in order to save you from a host who was serving you poison.

  • Faith

    The road to heaven feels like hell, but the road to hell feels like heaven.

  • Resilience

    Everything you thought was making you drown was teaching you how to swim.

  • Growth

    Sunshine all the time creates deserts.

  • Faith

    God will never let what you had lost be the best you have had.

  • Discipline

    Excuses make today easy but tomorrow hard. Discipline make today hard but tomorrow easy.

  • Discipline

    Say what you can do, do what you can say. Don’t leverage yourself on something you can’t do.

  • Growth

    Don’t force your plants to grow, remove what’s stopping them from growing.

  • Resilience

    When the road gets bumpy, you don’t leave the car, you put your seatbelts on.

  • Mindset

    Darkness is what makes stars visible.

  • Mindset

    One day you’ll realize no one was really watching, and you could’ve done whatever you wanted.

  • Growth

    Nothing changes day by day, but when you look back, everything is different.

  • Action

    The cost of never taking a risk is spending the rest of your life wishing you had.

  • Growth

    One day you’ll realize that even the steps backwards were part of the dance.

  • Resilience

    Pressure makes diamonds.

  • Ambition

    Dress for the job you want. Don’t be afraid to look silly.

  • Mindset

    Be unapologetic about who you are. Don’t let other people’s opinions or judgment affect how much you care. Go all in.

  • Ambition

    Don’t come to the party empty handed. Always try to build yourself and make yourself an asset.

  • Ambition

    Don’t focus on someone else trying to give you a job. Bring something to the table, have something to offer.

  • People

    Interact with the world like Santa, give with no intentions to receive. The world doesn’t owe you anything, so don’t just come to the party and expect a drink.

  • Action

    Bring the 6-pack to the party, make the queso, good things come to those who do.

  • Faith

    Before the crown comes the cross.

  • People

    Dogs are in your life for only a short period of time, but you are in theirs for their entire life. Your little commitments mean the world to them.

  • Action

    Take bigger risks.

  • Mindset

    You’re smart enough, you’re capable enough, you’re hard working enough.

  • Action

    If you take bigger risks and force yourself into positions where you have to make it, you’ll find that you’re a lot more hard-working than you thought you were, and you also find that life gets a lot more interesting.

  • Action

    The downside of risk is much smaller than you think and the upside is much greater.

  • Action

    Grow used to taking bigger risks.

  • Mindset

    Your thoughts create your feelings, and your feelings create your actions.

  • Ambition

    If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough.

  • Resilience

    Be so f*cking proud of surviving all the silent battles you don’t talk about

  • Faith

    You don’t need to have it all figured out right now, it will all work out like it always has

  • Action

    Your next move matters more than your last mistake

  • Action

    Only you can write the next page

  • Presence

    Imagine writing a book with no way to press backspace. How carefully would you write it? That’s life.

  • Faith

    Every pause is an opportunity to draw near to god

  • Faith

    Everything I lose makes space for everything I need.

  • People

    Peace over people.

  • Growth

    The scariest place to be is the same place as last year.

  • Growth

    Just because it’s taking time doesn’t mean it’s not happening.

  • Growth

    You have the power to change your life at any moment.

  • People

    Choose the people who choose you.

  • People

    It’s a blessing to have someone to walk beside you for a little while, even when you know your paths will diverge later on

  • People

    不用擔心別人,專心做自己。

    Soph
  • Faith

    Become who god wants you to be, not who you want yourself to be.

    The Hope
  • Faith

    Do things not to fulfill expectations, but for grace.

  • Mindset

    To be happy is not to believe everything happens for the best, but to make the best out of everything that happens.

  • Growth

    Don’t focus on your weaknesses, recognize them.

  • Resilience

    Will it be easy? Nope. But will it be worth it? ABSOLUTELY.

  • People

    Hating is free, that’s why broke people do it so well.

  • Resilience

    A winner is just a loser who tried again.

  • People

    I don’t take constructive criticisms from people who haven’t constructed shit.

  • Ambition

    Nobody believes in your vision until it’s too late to be a part of it.

  • Growth

    What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

  • Discipline

    Grit is to practice what you can’t yet do without ever being discouraged doing.

  • People

    When you are full, remember to feed others.

  • Discipline

    The only bad workout is the one you didn’t do.

  • People

    三個臭皮匠,賽過諸葛亮

  • Discipline

    A dumbbell is a dumbbell.

  • Discipline

    一顆鑽石,如果不摩的話,究定不會發光

  • Resilience

    The enemy is the resistance of the water, as you have to displace the amount of water equal to the weight of men and equipment, but that very water is what supports you and that very enemy is your friend. So is life: the very problems you must overcome also support you and make you stronger in overcoming them.

  • Growth

    the best thing you can do for yourself is actively increase your surface area for luck to hit you.

  • Growth

    go outside, try new cafes, museums, events, take a new route home, speak to people, ask questions, side quest.

  • Growth

    the more you do, the more serendipity and synchronicity will find you.

  • Discipline

    The key to consistently delivering quality podcast is to treat each podcast as the last one in your career.

  • Growth

    人之所是,遠大於人之所有,和人之所做

  • Mindset

    Don’t focus on being the best, focus on creating your own value by being you, because there is only one you.