Ryan Holiday Quotes

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

Much like anyone with too much time on his or her hands, I feel as though I am the most important person on earth and everything I do is relevant. I say the most charming and inspired things when no one is around.

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

I always look at a group of people who want to attempt an enterprise greater than their means. They begin on this enterprise and they fail.

I am disappointed when I don't win, because I want to believe I can win on every horse I ride, which is a ridiculous thing to think. Even if I'm on a horse that I have woken up thinking has no chance, by the time I've reached the course, I'll have convinced myself that it can win and will be disappointed if it doesn't.

Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.

A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.

If you're young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you're Hemingway. The next day you're nothing.

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

If you begin to think you're something you're not, you're looking in the wrong mirror.

I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.

They are most deceived that trusteth most in themselves.

A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same..

For people at the bottom who are really doing badly — those in the bottom 10th or 15th percentile — they think their work falls in the 60th or 55th percentile, so, above average. People at the bottom still think they're outperforming other people.

I was good at speech and debate and academics. I should've stayed in my lane, but I kept trying out for the basketball team. I thought I would make the N.B.A.

The minute you start believing your own success, you're on the road to ruin.

I was an arrogant man. I not only thought I could manage my life without help, I wanted it that way. I had best-selling books and a TV show and movie contracts; I felt invincible, secure in the thought that everything was my doing. And then, like all arrogant men, I came to stumble.

Beware of being blinded by your own success.

If you think you're right 80% of the time, you're deluded.

I just find there's nothing funnier and more scary than a delusional man who thinks they're the center of the universe, and in fact they're not.

I might have some delusions of grandeur.

I think about the people that I've seen change because they believed in their own hype. I just never want that to happen to me.