--- title: Quotes url: 'https://milesward.dev/quotes' markdown: 'https://milesward.dev/quotes.md' date: '2026-02-16' description: 'Quotes Collection of my favorite quotes. Figure out what you want. Ignore the opinions of others, and do so much volume that it would be unreasonable to not be successful. - Alex Hormozi The most embarrassing thing we could ever do is get to the end of your life and realize you played small. You l…' --- # Quotes ### Quotes Collection of my favorite quotes. > Figure out what you want. Ignore the opinions of others, and do so much volume that it would be unreasonable to not be successful. > - Alex Hormozi > The most embarrassing thing we could ever do is get to the end of your life and realize you played small. You left all of it on the table and you don't get another shot. > - Dean Graziosi > Don't expect yourself out of other people. > - Unknown > Everone will ask why you're working so hard. After you win, they'll remind you how lucky you got. > - Mark Manson > Laugh often. There's work that needs to be done. > - Unknown > Perfect is the enemy of good. > - Voltaire > If you find yourself on the wrong train, get off at the next stop. The longer you stay, the more expensive the return trip will be. > - Unknown > It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life. > - Captain Jean-Luc Picard > The more painful the sacrifice, the greater you'll be. > - Tyler Harris > Be so rooted in yourself that nobody's absence or presence can disturb your peace. > - Andra Smith > If you look at the people in your circle and you don't get inspired, you don't have a circle, you have a cage. > - Nipsey Hussle > To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. > - Alchemy's 1st Law of Equivalent Exchange > No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man. > - Heraclitus > If you put a king in the circus, the circus doesn't look like a palace; the king looks like a clown. > - Andrew Hawkins > There are two wolves, and they are always fighting. One is darkness and despair, the other light and hope. Which one wins? The one you feed. > - Unknown > We are not afforded the luxury of being average. > - Ronald Williams > You can't make a good deal with a bad person. > - Warren Buffett > The magic you're looking for is in the work that you're avoiding. > - Dipen Parmar > The ironic tragedy is that life has to be lived forward but only makes sense in the reverse. > - Søren Kierkegaard > The pursuit of the unbeatable by the unspeakable. > - Oscar Wilde > Yeah, you're gonna die, it's a matter of time. That ain't the question. The question's, whether they're gonna have a good story to tell about you when you're gone. > - Shia LaBeouf: The Peanut Butter Falcon > Stop ignoring the truth for things that you want to be true. > - Unknown > If they have no bread, let them eat cake. > - Marie Antoinette > Never underestimate a man who doesn't know that what he's doing is impossible. > - Unknown > If they don't have what you want, don't listen to what they say. There's no greater waste in time than justifying your actions to people that have a life you don't want. > - Alex Hormozi > Life is like chess. Don't broadcast your intentions. Act quietly. Keep achieving. Your achievements are your checkmate. > - Unknown > If you know the way broadly you will see it in everything. > - Miyamoto Musashi > It's okay to take a day off. I'll be further ahead. > - Unknown > If you want to buy things without looking at the price, work without looking at the clock. > - Unknown > Believing you can is way more profitable than believing that you can't. > - De'el Woods > To all the doors that closed on me: I'm coming back to buy the building. > - Unknown > The sunset is beautiful, isn't it? > - Unknown > I'll see you at the top because the bottom is too crowded. But we never look down on anybody unless we're willing to help them up. > - Unknown > Stay small enough long enough and you'll be big enough soon enough > - Unknown > Not everyone has access to me, because I prioritize peace over attention. > - Unknown > The more things you own, the more things own you. > - Anthony Robins > I'd complain but who'd listen. > - Junior Soprano > Fairs les quatre cents coups. > - The 400 Blows > I allow manipulation to figure out where my enemy wants me to go, and then I use my mind to break the trap and punish the perpetrators. > - Andrew Tate > It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. > - Upton Sinclair > When you can't control what's happening to you, control how you respond to it. > - Inky Johnson > No such thing as vacation - just warmer weather to work in. > - Drake > But there are some things that you cannot be sure of. You must take a chance. If you wait for perfect weather, you will never plant your seeds. If you are afraid that every cloud will bring rain, you will never harvest your crops. > - Ecclesiastes 11:4 > If you're only surrounded by people who are no smarter than you then you're rubbing shoulders with the wrong crowd. > - Steve Jobs > Remain like a duck, calm on the surface but paddle like crazy underneath. > - Michael Caine > A fearless adventure in knowing what to do when no one is there telling you what to do. > - Ben White > Adversity introduces a man to himself. > - Albert Einstein > They surrounded me on every side, but in the name of the Lord I cut them down. > - Psalm 118:11 > Everything around you was made up by people no smarter than you. > - Steve Jobs > All right boys, good luck and god bless you. > - Edward Smith > The truth is like poetry, and people fucking hate poetry. > - Adam McKay > I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question. > - Harun Yahya > I apologize for such a long letter - I didn't have time to write a short one. > - Mark Twain > The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. > - Henry David Thoreau > Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but do it like you love it > - Mike Tyson > Champagne vision and beer standards. > - Jordan Belfort > Some of y'all are not where you want to be in life, yet you party every weekend. > What is it that you're celebrating? > - T.I. > When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is. > - Oscar Wilde > If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. > - Abraham Maslow > We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest. > - Warren Buffett > You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. > - Robin Williams > Adam Smith needs revision. > - John Nash (A Beautiful Mind) > The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. > - Mark Twain > An idle mind is the devil's workshop. > - Proverbs 16:27 > You are a product of your environment. > - Joseph Grenny > Don't leave anything for later, because later the coffee gets cold. > - Denzel Washington > No one will ever know the violence it took to become this gentle. > - Ralph Waldo Emerson > The one thing they love more than a hero is to see a hero fail, fall, die trying. In spite of everything you've done for them, eventually, they will hate you. > - Green Goblin > Bet against me, tell me it's not gonna happen, tell me it's gonna fail. I love it. I love every minute of it. > - [Dana White](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/c190iqWcFEc) > I lost my mind in this game..like Vincent van Gogh. He dedicated his life to his craft and lost his mind in the process. That's happening to me. But, fuck it. When that gold belt is around my waist, when my mother has a big mansion, when my girlfriend has a different car for every day of the week, when my kids' kids have everything they ever want, then it will pay. > - Conor McGregor > May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't. > - George S. Patton Jr. > "What is the biggest lie that you were ever told?" > > It's not that simple... that's how they get you to give up... if you just do the thing that they tell you you can't then it's done; and you realize it is that simple, and it always was. > - Miles Teller > Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated. > - Paul F. 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