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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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago

Better a pig than a fascist

Porco Rosso

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

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

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Good things too.

[–] HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

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

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week 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 1 week 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

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

Life sucks... And then you die.

[–] leonine@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

This is my personal favourite

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week 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 1 week ago (1 children)

He died from what he loved being...

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week 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 1 week 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

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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

Just remember to let her into your heart

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Then you can start to make it better

"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".

[–] nullPointer@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] dcoe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week 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
[–] JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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

Anais Nin

[–] Angrywaffle2@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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

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

Some things are in our control and others not.

Epictitus, The Enchiridion

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

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

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

“Be excellent to each other”

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

"fuck it"

-self help Singh