Steve's Favorite Quotes
“The road to nowhere is paved with excuses.” “If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.” “Strong people are harder to kill than weaker people and more useful in general.” “Physical strength is the most important thing in life. This is true whether we want it to be or not.” “A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong.” “Just remember, somewhere, a little Chinese girl is warming up with your max.” “We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.” “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” “We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value.” “If you can control what you eat, you can control all other aspects of your life.” “To dig a little deeper. “Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.” “As you think, so shall you become.” “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” “There is only one sort of discipline. Perfect discipline.” “Without self-discipline, success is impossible. Period.” “No one has ever drowned in sweat.” “There are no shortcuts — everything is reps, reps, reps.” “Every morning you have two options. Continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them.” “Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.” “Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength and move on.” “Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what other don’t to achieve what others won’t.” “Strength is understanding that your power is both physical and emotional it comes from the body and the mind and the heart.” “The Iron is the best anti-depressant I have ever found. There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength.” “No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.” “I prefer to train alone. It enables me to concentrate on the lessons that the Iron has for me. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it’s impossible to turn back.” “The Iron never lies to you. “Time doesn’t age us. Our habits do.” “Just like you have taken control of your life you must now take control of your kitchen. It is YOUR kitchen after-all and in MY kitchen, I make the rules. There are no unhealthy ingredients allowed to be brought into my home. If my family and I do feel like we deserve to get some ice cream or enjoy a pizza, we get in the car and make a day of it. My house, just like my body, is my temple.” “They’ll tell you failure is not an option. This is ridiculous. Failure is always an option. Failure is the most readily available option at all times, but it’s a choice. You can choose to fail, or you can choose to succeed.” “Better, faster, smarter, stronger.” “The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win ― you pass the test.” “Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.” “If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.” “Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.” “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” “To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.” “If you think a thing is impossible, you’ll only make it impossible.” “You can’t be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself.” “Self discipline is the definition of self love.” “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” “Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how you do it.” “If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.” “Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.” “Don’t be a spectator. Don’t let life pass you by.” “Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.” “Without commitment you’ll never start, but more importantly… without consistency you’ll never finish” “Keep working, keep striving. “Ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship.” “You’ll never see a U-Haul behind a hearse. … Now, I’ve been blessed to make hundreds of millions of dollars in my life. I can’t take it with me, and neither can you. It’s not how much you have but what you do with what you have.” “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” “Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.” “Don’t chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people – the ones who really belong in your life – will come to you. And stay.” “Greatness exists in all of us. “ “If you’re not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I’d rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.” “A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought — they must be earned.” “All greatness comes from suffering.” “I don’t have time is just saying it’s not a priority.” “Doctors won’t make you healthy. Nutritionists won’t make you slim. Teachers won’t make you smart. Gurus won’t make you calm. Mentors won’t make you rich. Trainers won’t make you fit. Ultimately, you have to take responsibility. Save yourself.” “No one is going to value you more than you value yourself.” “The modern mind is overstimulated and the modern body is understimulated and overfed. Meditation, exercise, and fasting restore an ancient balance.” “The greatest superpower is the ability to change yourself.” “School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards — wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity — come from ignoring others and improving ourselves.” “No matter how high your bar is, raise it.” “The best way, perhaps the only way, to change others is to become an example.” “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today.” “Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.” “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” “There is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.” “To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.” “Transformation comes when we marry the desire for change with a strong sense of purpose and intent, and then we take action.” “Don’t half-ass everything, whole-ass what really matters.” “Success is the product of daily habits—not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.” “You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.” “Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about the processes that lead to those results.” “Ultimately, it is your commitment to the process that will determine your progress.” “Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.” “Losers have goals. Winners have systems.” “Failure always brings something valuable with it. I don’t let it leave until I extract that value.” “Priorities are the things you need to get right so the things you love can thrive.” “An atomic habit is a little habit that is part of a larger system. Just as atoms are the building blocks of molecules, atomic habits are the building blocks of remarkable results.” “If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.” “You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.” “One of the most fascinating lessons I’ve absorbed about life is that the struggle is good.” “Work for that feeling that you have accomplished something…Don’t waste your time on this earth without making a mark.” “There’s a direct correlation between positive energy and positive results in the physical form.” “Live your life like you’re the hero in your own movie.” “By putting yourself in that intense form of stress, it makes regular life more peaceful.” “Be the hero of your own story.” “No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.” “The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.” “I’m just going to keep doing what I’m doing. Keep proving people wrong and proving myself right.” “You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.” “Life is about growing and improving and getting better.” “I believe in myself so much that nothing is going to stop me.” “Doubt is only removed by action. If you’re not working then that’s where doubt comes in.” “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot” “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” “Time isn’t the main thing. It’s the only thing.” “Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” “It is not enough to be busy… The question is: what are we busy about?” “You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires. You decide. And if you don’t decide, others will decide for you.” “Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.” “A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.” “The essence of self-discipline is to do the important thing rather than the urgent thing.” “Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own.” “The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.” “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” “Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” “While it is tempting to play it safe, the more we’re willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took.” “Live each day as if your life had just begun.” “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” “We are most fully alive when we are changing and growing and stretching our boundaries in our quest to be all we can be.” The real workout starts when you want to stop. “The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.” “A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission.” “Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence.” “Those who know what’s best for us must rise and save us from ourselves.” “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” “Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” “Winners never quit, and quitters never win.” “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” “If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you.” “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” “The key is not the will to win. Everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.” “What is a champion but a guy that didn’t quit?” “You can’t measure a man by his size. You measure him by the fight he has inside.” “You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it. Doesn’t it sound lovely beyond belief?” “The most important comparison, in fact, is comparing your work to what you’re capable of. “Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers. “The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself.” “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize those were the big things.” “How come abbreviated is such a long word?” “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” “It’s not too late at all. You just don’t yet know what you are capable of.”
To push a little harder.
To get after it.”
You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you’re a god or a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal…
Friends may come and go.
But two-hundred pounds is ALWAYS two-hundred pounds.”
Never give up.
Fall down 7 times, get up 8.”