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Here’s one I love: "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." – Steve Jobs.

It always motivates me to focus on my passions. What’s a quote that inspires you?

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[-] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 1 points 3 days ago

“Be excellent to each other”

[-] Platypus@lemmings.world 15 points 6 days ago

Jobs was such a piece of shit, anything positive he said I just can't digest it. Fuck that guy.

[-] fargeol@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

Better a pig than a fascist

Porco Rosso

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 days ago

“We are made of starstuff” – Carl Sagan

It's inspiration to me because it always reminds me of our insignificantly small and momentary place in this universe.

[-] LordCrom@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.

-- Conan

[-] einkorn@feddit.org 4 points 6 days ago

Actually that's a (albeit debated) quote from Genghis Khan.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

"You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do."

David Foster Wallace (although he may have been quoting someone else)

[-] Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 9 points 6 days ago

"Be the change you want to see in the world.”

I live by the rule that I imagine everyone doing what I’m doing. If everyone doing it would make the world a worse place, then I don’t do it. Conversely, if it would make the world better, I go for it. This mindset makes even small charitable acts feel meaningful—because while my individual contribution may be minor, if everyone did that little thing too, we’d all be much better off.

[-] callouscomic@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Financial advice:

Mr. Simpson, your intelligence profile indicates that you're too... "stupid" to stick to a budget.

-Yes. Go on.

So, let me put this simply. You need more money.

-But how do I get it?

I'm a financial planner, not a financial consultant. Sorry.

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

This too shall pass

[-] HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

"If it is too hard to cope with failure, how can you ever be able to handle success?" -Unknown.

[-] Bougie_Birdie 5 points 6 days ago

"Win if you can, lose if you must, but always, always cheat."

I'm told this creed is an invention of a family member, but if I'm following the message it's almost certainly stolen from somewhere.

I'm also a big fan of "Anything worth doing is a worth doing half-assed"

[-] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

"Cheating is the gift man gives himself"

-C. Montgomery Burns, https://youtu.be/iLzoi1ndQH8

[-] invertedspear@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days ago

In my family it was:

“If he’s bigger‘en you, get yerself an equalizer”

The point is the same, no one voluntarily goes in to a fight they think is fair. They “cheated“ before you got involved. It’s foolish not to cheat back.

[-] Platypus@lemmings.world 4 points 6 days ago

Life sucks... And then you die.

[-] leonine@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

This is my personal favourite

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

“The best way to handle, to take care of the future, is to take care of the present moment.  What else can you do?”

— Thich Nhat Hanh,  The Art Of Mindful Living

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

"Life is far too serious for me to take it seriously."

[-] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 3 points 6 days ago

He died from what he loved being...

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Mentally ill and delusional.

I love that for him.

[-] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 1 points 3 days ago

Lol, I was going to say cancer

[-] JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

[-] dcoe@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

“The injury that is to be done to a man should be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge. “

  • Machiavelli

"We choose to go to the moon" was the first thing that popped into my mind.

And related to OPs quote. "If you love your job, you'll never work a day in your life".

[-] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Only you can take a sad song and make it better.

[-] nullPointer@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

In the end; the universe tends to unfold as it should.

[-] Volkditty@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Some things are in our control and others not.

Epictitus, The Enchiridion

[-] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

"Though the grease burns out of the torch, the fire passes on, and no one knows where it ends." -Zhuangzi

[-] shani66@ani.social 1 points 6 days ago

"fuck it"

-self help Singh

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