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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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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

"Why should I kill myself? It's everyone else that sucks!"

Forgot where it came from, though. Bender, from Futurama?

[–] HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Oh that reminds me of something funny my old psychiatrist told me: when people complain that everybody hates them, he responds: how can that be true? You haven't even met everyone yet!

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

It sounds like something from "A Pharaoh to Remember"

I hope you're all happy. You've succeeded in convincing me life is worth living, by showing how bad my funeral will suck

https://youtu.be/y2zql_a6t2o

But I think you're confusing it with a scene from Office Space

Why should I change? He's the one who sucks

https://youtu.be/ADgS_vMGgzY

[–] Platypus@lemmings.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] fargeol@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

Better a pig than a fascist

Porco Rosso

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

-- Conan

[–] einkorn@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Good things too.

[–] HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

"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"

[–] invertedspear@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

"Cheating is the gift man gives himself"

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

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[–] Platypus@lemmings.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Life sucks... And then you die.

[–] leonine@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

This is my personal favourite

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks 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

[–] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He died from what he loved being...

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Mentally ill and delusional.

I love that for him.

[–] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

Lol, I was going to say cancer

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.

–Kent M. Keith

"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 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just remember to let her into your heart

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Then you can start to make it better

[–] JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

Anais Nin

[–] dcoe@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks 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
[–] nullPointer@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, but how should it? If it 'should' have immense amounts of suffering and inequity, that doesn't sound very comforting.

[–] Angrywaffle2@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I don't ask for permission. I ask for forgiveness.

[–] shani66@ani.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

"fuck it"

-self help Singh

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Volkditty@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Some things are in our control and others not.

Epictitus, The Enchiridion

[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

“Be excellent to each other”

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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