Tim Ferriss Inspirational Quotations

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.

The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.

A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.

Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small.

Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.

Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.

The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?

Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, interest, and mental endurance all wax and wane. Plan accordingly.

Life is too short to be small.

Many a false step was made by standing still.

The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.

Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner

For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. "Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way.

To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren't as serious as you make them out to be.

The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.

Becoming a member of the NR is not just about working smarter. It's about building a system to replace yourself.

If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources.

Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving.

Learn to be difficult when it counts

Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.

By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It's the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too.

The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending.

$1,000,000 in the bank isn't the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows.

It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter—nothing can justify that sacrifice.

Most people are good at a handful of things and utterly miserable at most.