35 Inspirational Ryan Holiday Quotes On Success

Ryan Holiday is an American author, marketer, and entrepreneur. He is a media strategist, the former Director of Marketing for American Apparel and a media columnist and editor-at-large for the New York Observer. May these Ryan Holiday Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.

1. “Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.” Ryan Holiday

2. “Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.” Ryan Holiday

3. “You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.” Ryan Holiday

4. “Everything sucks. I know it. You know it. Let that free you.” Ryan Holiday

5. “The question to ask, when you feel pride is this: What am I missing right now that a more humble person might see?” Ryan Holiday

6. “Great times are great softeners.” Ryan Holiday

7. “I don’t keep Facebook on my phone and I don’t use any apps with alerts. The idea is that the phone answers to me rather than the other way around.” Ryan Holiday

8. “Impressing people is utterly different from being truly impressive.” Ryan Holiday

9. “There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.” Ryan Holiday

10. “When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?” Ryan Holiday

11. “The economics of the internet created a twisted set of incentives that make traffic more important – and more important – and more profitable – than the truth.” Ryan Holiday

12. “Working really late is overrated and usually the result of poor planning.” Ryan Holiday

13. “True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.” Ryan Holiday

14. “First, see clearly. Next, act correctly. Finally, endure and accept the world as it is.” Ryan Holiday

15. “It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. Plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life – that’s persistence.” Ryan Holiday

16. “We will learn that though we think big, we must act and live small in order to accomplish what we seek.” Ryan Holiday

17. “If we can learn to love the hard work, we will save ourselves much trouble and collateral damage. We must remember: There is no easy way.” Ryan Holiday

18. “We are A to Z thinkers. Fretting about A, obsessing over Z, and yet forgetting all about B through Y.” Ryan Holiday

19. “Imagine the power you’d have in your life and relationships if all the things that trouble everyone else didn’t matter so much.” Ryan Holiday

20. “No one is keeping you from your dream job.” Ryan Holiday

21. “The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.” Ryan Holiday

22. “Ordinary people shy away from negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune – really anything, everything to their advantage.” Ryan Holiday

23. “Adversity can harden you. Or it can loosen you up and make you better if you let it.” Ryan Holiday

24. “In life, it doesn’t matter what happens to you or where you came from. It matters what you do with what you’ve been given.” Ryan Holiday

25. “You’re the chief marketing officer for YOU the company.” Ryan Holiday

26. “Am I saying this because I want to prove how smart I am or am I saying this because it needs to be said.” Ryan Holiday

27. “Failure shows us the way by showing us what isn’t the way.” Ryan Holiday

28. “Sometimes the longest way around is the shortest way home.” Ryan Holiday

29. “The obstacle is an advantage, not adversity. The enemy is any perception that prevents us from seeing this.” Ryan Holiday

30. “Compare yourself against the progress you’ve made.” Ryan Holiday

31. “Genius often really is just persistence in disguise.” Ryan Holiday

32. “End of night thoughts: What bad habit did I curb today? How am I better? Were my actions just?” Ryan Holiday

33. “What matters most is not what our obstacles are but how we see them, how we react to them, and whether we keep our composure.” Ryan Holiday

34. “Think progress, not perfection.” Ryan Holiday

35. “Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception preceded action. Right action follows the right perspective.” Ryan Holiday

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