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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    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.

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

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    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

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    "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.

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    “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)

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

    – Conan

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    “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.

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

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    “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