The quote database

Life is a verb. We try our best. We don’t always do our best.

Life’s not easy…don’t try and make it that way. It’s not fair, it never was, it isn’t now, it won’t ever be.

Do not fall into the entitlement trap of feeling you are a victim, you are not. Get over it and get on with it.

Most things are more rewarding when you break a sweat to get em.

They may be truths to me, but don’t think that that makes them mine… because you can’t own a truth.

Give others and yourself more credit. It just happened, you witnessed it, you just did it, believe it.

One thing you can depend on people being…is people.

Happiness demands a certain outcome, it is result reliant.

If happiness is what you’re after, then you are going to be let down frequently and be unhappy much of your time.

Life is not a popularity contest. Be brave, take the hill but first, answer the question, “What is my hill?”

It’s just as important where we are not as it is where we are.

We give thanks for these things and that gratitude reciprocates, creating more to be thankful for. It’s simple, and it works.

An honest man’s pillow is his peace of mind, and when you lay down on the pillow at night, no matter who’s in our bed we all sleep alone.

We have created a fictitious ceiling, a roof, to our expectations of ourselves, a limit — where we think it’s all too good to be true.

If we stay in process, within ourselves, in the joy of the doing, we will never choke at the finish line.

The greatest snipers and marksmen in the world don’t aim at the target, they aim on the other side of it.

We do our best when our destinations are beyond the “measurement,” when our reach continually exceeds our grasp, when we have immortal finish lines.

The race is never over. The journey has no port. The adventure never ends because we are always on our way.

I have never had any trouble turning the page in the book of my life.

You are going to make mistakes — own them, make amends, and move on. Guilt and regret kills many a man before their time. Turn the page, get off the ride.

I try to scare myself at least once a day.

Instead of denying these fears, declare them, say them out loud, admit them, give them the credit they deserve.

I’d subscribe to the belief that we’re all destined to have to do the thing we fear the most anyway.