100+ Best Life Advice Quotes

• The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
• Focus on what you can control. If you can’t control it, why worry about it? 
• Don’t suffer imagined troubles. 
• This is not a practice match, this is the grand final. You only get one life. Determine your dreams as early as possible and go after them with everything you can muster. 
• Never complain, it’s toxic. 
• Everything in this world is better in moderation except humility and kindness. You can never give too much.
• Build pockets of stillness into your life. 
• Take 100% ownership of everything that happens.
• Be like water. 
• Be a good ancestor. Do something a future generation will thank you for.
• Everything in life has tradeoffs. Know what’s most important and don’t sacrifice those. Things that matter most – must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.
• The true wealth in life lies in relationships. Seek long term games with long term people.
• Comparing yourself to others is a path towards disappointment. 
• Be strict with yourself and tolerant with others. 
• All the greatest gains in life — in wealth, relationships, or knowledge —come from the magic of compounding interest — amplifying small steady gains. All you need for abundance is to keep adding 1% more than you subtract on a regular basis.
• Focus on process, not outcomes. 
• Give more to get more. 
• Take a simple idea and take it seriously. 
• Bad things can happen fast, but almost all good things happen slowly.
• Bring happiness to every encounter in life, instead of expecting external events to produce joy.
• Approach everything from a place of curiosity. 
• Challenge yourself, stretch yourself, embrace the unknown. 
• Don’t be afraid to say “I don’t know” and ask for help. Beginner’s mind. 
• Focus on the vital few instead of the trivial many. 
• Learn to say no. No is a decision, yes is a responsibility.
• We have to live life forward but it only makes sense backward.
• Make the one decision that will eliminate 100 other decisions. 
• Try to be a force for good in all situations.
• Be present. 
• Surrender. 
• No one owes you anything.
• Embrace paradox, life is paradox.
• You will only experience the moment that’s in front of you. You can think, you wish you had a different one. You can talk about why it shouldn’t be this way. It doesn’t matter. You’re experiencing the moment that’s in front of you. That is the gift that life is giving you, period. Sometimes you think it’s against you, it’s neither for you nor against you. Life is doing its thing. Life is unfolding. 
• Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. 
• Be defined by your actions, not just your thoughts. The void between thought and action is where regret resides. There are very few moments that define your life, live up to those moments. Be ready. Then have the courage to act.
• Focus. It’s a superpower. 
• Change is inevitable. Embrace it. 
• Surround yourself with people so good you can’t help but be humble and feel a little out of place.
• Just because it’s not your fault doesn’t mean it’s not your responsibility.
• Hatred will never cease by hatred at any time. Hatred ceases only through love. This is an eternal law.
• Ask yourself right now, What’s my own nature if I have no outside forces telling me who or what I should be? Then work at living one day in complete harmony with your own nature, ignoring pressures to be otherwise. 
• We are continued in our children, in our students, in everyone whose lives we have touched.
• Nature doesn’t create a storm that never ends. Within misfortune, good fortune hides.
• There are not good and bad experiences. There are just experiences. And if you’re open to them, you grow from them. You learn from them. Embrace the world just as it is.
• The way we choose to invest our time determines and provides all of our resources. But everything we protect so dearly we can figure out how to get more of, just by spending our time better. 
• In nature there is no alienation. Everything belongs.
• Every day is a new opportunity to begin again. Every day is your birthday.
• Relax, let go, allow, and recognize that some of your desires are about how you think your world should be, rather than how it is in that moment.
• Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.
• Assume ignorance not malice. Root for peoples better angels. 
• So my dreams for my kids are very exact: I want them to find their own path to fulfillment. Kids, don’t try to figure out what I wanted you to become. I want you to become what you want to become.
• Finite games are played to win or lose. Infinite games are played to keep the game going. Seek out infinite games because they yield infinite rewards.
• Watching your child sleep could be the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen. Do it more often. 
• The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
• Cultivate the habits that will develop you into the person you want to be.
• Impatience with actions but patience with results. 
• The right decision at the wrong time is the wrong decision. 
• Zoom in, zoom out. Nothing is as important as you think it is while you’re thinking about it. Hence the importance of giving yourself the space and time to read, think, analyze and synthesize.
• Choose joy.
• Integrity is the only path where you never get lost.
• To go faster we can add energy, do fewer things, or reduce friction.
• The best things in life are free but require the most amount of work.
• Study the lives of the greats. Both their successes and failures. “nanos gigantum humeris insidentes“- Standing on the shoulders of giants. 
• Never deprive someone of hope. It may be all they have left. 
• Vision without diligence is just an idea. 
• Reflect, journal, decode yourself. 
• Always give credit, take blame.
• Know the “why” and you’ll find the “how”. Dare to dream. Have the courage to follow your passions.
• Question successes with the same vigor you question failures. 
• The greatest teacher is called doing. 
• Life works in oscillation. Stress + rest = recovery. 
• Your body is the only temple your soul will live in during this lifetime. Cultivate it daily. 
• Calm is contagious. Find peace in the chaos.
• Unobstructed authentic self expression in everything you do. Escape competition through authenticity. No one can beat you at being you. 
• You are responsible for the energy you bring into space. Be aware of who and what brings or detracts your energy. 
• Learn from mother nature. 
• Find the beauty and joy in ordinary things. 
• Eye level with people. Don’t look up and don’t look down on people. 
• Know that everything you own, owns you.
• Measure twice, cut once. 
• Write letters to yourself and loved ones. 
• The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
• If you were going to die 5 years from today what would you regret not having done? Do it. Do it right fucking now! 
• Slow down to speed up. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. 
• Be grateful for everything, entitled to nothing. 
• We can never be fully prepared for the magnitude of someone leaving us.
• We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.
• Leap and the net will appear.
• The meaning of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
• Leave things better than you found them. This is true for places, objects and people.
• Courage. Temperance. Justice. Wisdom. -Always
• A reactive life keeps you too occupied to see the true nature of your chases. If you pause and reflect, you’ll see that you are running after mirages. What you expect from your goals is very different from what your goals actually give you.
• The life you create should be your most creative masterpiece. 
• There is no bigger waste of time than doing something efficiently that shouldn’t be done at all.
• Work to become, not to acquire.
• Accept yourself. Forgive yourself. You are human, you will make mistakes. The difference between the Good and the Great is how they react to mistakes.
• Beware of unearned wisdom. 
• Attitudes shape futures. 
• Suffering arises from craving. Eliminate craving and you cannot suffer.
• What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. At your funeral people will not recall what you did; they will only remember how you made them feel.
• Life should be lived in the arena, not in the stands. 
• If you can avoid seeking approval of others, your power is limitless.
• Mediocrity is chronic inconsistency. 
• Some lessons must be experienced before they can be learned. 
• Find time each day to learn something, move your body, nourish your soul and laugh uncontrollably. 
• Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.
• Risk and believe in yourself. You only have one life. 
• Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect. 
• Trust your gut. Your body is always honest. 
• No one knows… that’s where all the maps stop… that’s where I’m going.

Momentum breeds momentum,

Sean