Sam Foshee — Quotes

Carl Jung

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate”
— Carl Jung

Hartmut Esslinger

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

“Find your calling, and excel at it”
— Hartmut Esslinger · source

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

“Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams.”
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo · Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai · source

Alfred Adler

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT

“Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.”
— Alfred Adler

Henry Ford

Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT

“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right”
— Henry Ford

Walt Whitman

Sun, 16 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

“These are the days that must happen to you.”
— Walt Whitman

Vincent van Gogh

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

“Normality is a paved road: it’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.”
— Vincent van Gogh

Colonel David Hackworth

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

“If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly.”
— Colonel David Hackworth

Machiavelli

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

“Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.”
— Machiavelli · The Prince · source

Steven Pressfield

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT

“Are you a born writer? Were you put on earth to be a painter, a scientist, an apostle of peace? In the end the question can only be answered by action.”
— Steven Pressfield · The War of Art · source

Steven Pressfield

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT

“Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.”
— Steven Pressfield · The War of Art · source

Steven Pressfield

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT

“Do it or don't do it.”
— Steven Pressfield · The War of Art · source

Steven Pressfield

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT

“It may help to think of it this way. If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself,. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet.”
— Steven Pressfield · The War of Art · source

Steven Pressfield

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT

“It’s better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.”
— Steven Pressfield · The War of Art · source

Steven Pressfield

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT

“You shame the angels who watch over you and you spite the Almighty, who created you and only you with your unique gifts, for the sole purpose of nudging the human race one millimeter farther along its path back to God.”
— Steven Pressfield · The War of Art · source

Hunter S. Thompson

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT

“One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing about it. Because by forcing yourself to write about it and putting it down in words, you can't avoid having your say on the subject. You might be wrong, but you have to think about it very intensely to write about it.”
— Hunter S. Thompson · https://www.azquotes.com/author/14615-HunterSThompson/tag/writing?utm_source=chatgpt.com · source

Henry James

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

“I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination”
— Henry James

Napoleon

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT

“Hesitation is fatal; once an action is begun, it must be followed through with the utmost exertion of the will.”
— Napoleon

Warren Buffett

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT

“in order to succeed, you must first survive”
— Warren Buffett

Mario Andretti

Fri, 13 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT

“If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.”
— Mario Andretti

Bruce Lee

Wed, 07 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT

“Pain will leave once it is done teaching you”
— Bruce Lee

Unknown

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT

“All we have is the present moment and an imagination”
— Unknown

Jamie Lannister

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT

“My life has left me uniquely unfit for constraint.”
— Jamie Lannister

Unknown

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT

“The words you speak become the house you live in”
— Unknown

Miles Davis

Tue, 02 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT

“Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself.”
— Miles Davis

Steve McQueen

Tue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT

“Attack life, its going to kill you anyways”
— Steve McQueen

Unknown

Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT

“You can’t fake the funk”
— Unknown

Unknown

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT

“Winning cures all”
— Unknown

Alexis Carrel

Tue, 19 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT

“Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor”
— Alexis Carrel

Steve Jobs

Sun, 25 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT

“The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That's maybe the most important thing. It's to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. I think that's very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you'll want to change life and make it better, cause it's kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.”
— Steve Jobs · Steve Jobs Secrets of Life · source

Oscar Wilde

Fri, 14 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
— Oscar Wilde

Seneca

Wed, 05 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT

“Life without a design is erratic. As soon as one is in place, principles become necessary. I think you’ll concede that nothing is more shameful than uncertain and wavering conduct, and beating a cowardly retreat. This will happen in all our affairs unless we remove the faults that seize and detain our spirits, preventing them from pushing forward and making an all-out effort.”
— Seneca

Henry David Thoreau

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.”
— Henry David Thoreau

Thomas Eddison

Fri, 17 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT

“The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.”
— Thomas Eddison

James S. A. Corey

Mon, 06 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT

“Anger I can do something with. Sadness, fear, self-pity, self-doubt? They are inwardly focused. They keep you locked inside yourself. They’re useless. Anger is outwardly focused. Anger wants to take action. Anger is useful. Are you ready to use it?”
— James S. A. Corey

Don Draper

Wed, 26 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT

“Why is sex the definition of being close to someone? Just because you climb a mountain doesn’t mean you love it.”
— Don Draper

Mark Twain

Mon, 24 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT

“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”
— Mark Twain

Ray Charles

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT

“I’m just an example of the fact that there’s something for everyone to do if they just want to do it.”
— Ray Charles

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing. So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it… Life is long if you know how to use it.”
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

William Ellery Channing

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT

“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
— William Ellery Channing

Alan Watts

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT

“You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.”
— Alan Watts

Bob Marley

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT

“You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.”
— Bob Marley

Carl Jung

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
— Carl Jung

Carl Jung

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
— Carl Jung

Carl Jung

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT

“Where the fear, there is your task!”
— Carl Jung