Tim Ferriss Quotes

It takes a special kind of person to fight back.

As you go along your own road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance... But no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still and persevere.

To be emotionally resilient and to overcome your circumstances, not through fighting, but through being courageous and having endurance was something I thought was of primary importance.

There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle.

You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.

Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.

You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

More can I bear than you dare execute.

Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.

We've all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we'll be sure to have some tomorrow.

A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion.

We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!

If I don't give up in the ring, I don't give up in life... I try to live my life the same way.

When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men.

Never be bullied into silence.

It's easy to just give everything up, but it takes a lot of strength and a lot of willpower to just make yourself stay on it and get up and do something different. And I had to do that.

I'm not insecure. I've been through way too much f**king sh*t to be insecure. I've got huge balls. But I've been humbled. That makes you grateful for every day you have.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

We draw our strength from the battle. From our greatest conflicts come our greatest victories.

It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: 'Sit down and shut up,' but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out.

You when the storm is raging - how do you face despair? It is you that the world discovers, whatever the clothes you wear.

He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.