30 More of Our Favorite Quotes

"Lunch Talks" with Matt & Brendon

We had so many quotes last time that to condense them all down (like we said, we have a lot!) was quite a task, so here are some more of our favorite inspirational and philosophical quotes:

Matt’s…

1. “Your focus determines your reality.

– Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars 1: The Phantom Menace

2. “So this is how liberty dies…with thunderous applause.”

– Padme Amidala in Star Wars 3: Revenge of the Sith

3. “…novelty is no reason to reject it.”

– Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in her opinion on the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate

4. “There is an inverse yet universal correlation between inseam and dopeness.”

– @chubbies on Instagram

5. “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”

– Mahatma Gandhi

6. “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”

– Mark Twain

7. “If there is no way, create one.”

– Anonymous

8. “Being on the edge isn’t as safe but the view is better.”

– Ricky Gervais

9. “You can. End of story.”

– @luxquotes on Instagram

10. “One reason why people resist change is that they focus on what they have to give up, rather than what they have to gain.”

– Rick Godwin

11. “Time and tide wait for no man.”

– (Ancient Proverb; check out Connor Franta’s “Life Doesn’t Wait” video)

12. “Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see life with a clearer view again.”

– Alex Tan

13. “The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”

– Dr. Samuel Johnson

14. “Give a man a fish, he eats for a day; teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime.”

– (Ancient Proverb)

15. “Obsessed is a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.”

– Anonymous

Brendon’s…

16. “Fail, it’s not in my dictionary. I’ve got a good dictionary up there and the words ‘fail’ and ‘failure’ have been ruled out for years. I don’t know what people are talking about who use that word. All I do know is temporary non-success, even if I’ve got to wait another 20 years for what I’m after, and I try to put that into people, no matter what their object in life.”

– Percy Cerutty

17. “It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, Our presence automatically liberates others.”

– Marianne Williamson

18. “The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.”

– Tony Robbins

19. “If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them”

– Bruce Lee

20. “When you judge another, you do not define them. You define yourself.”

– Wayne Dyer

21. “Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.”

– Wayne Dyer

22. “Don’t ever let someone tell you that you can’t do something. You got a dream, you gotta protect it. When people can’t do something themselves, they are going to tell you that you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period.”

– Will Smith

23. “Only a foolish dog barks at a flying bird”

– Bob Marley

24. “What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.”

– Tony Robbins

25. “Ya know it’s funny, what’s happening to us. Our lives have become digital. Our friends, now virtual. And, anything you could ever wanna know is just a click away. Experiencing the world through second had information isn’t enough. If we want authenticity we have to initiate it. We will never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It’s this self discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth.”

– Tavis Rice

26. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

– Ghandi

27. “Do not be afraid of death. Be afraid of the half-lived life!”

– Laird Hamilton

28. “Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your two ears.”

– Laird Hamilton

29. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

– Nelson Mandela

30. “It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”

– Seneca

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