Ryan Holiday Quotes

'The Cut' is going to give someone the opportunity of a lifetime and help that person achieve his or her dreams.

I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.

In coming to New York, I got my first Broadway show six months after I got here. So that song, 'Movin' Too Fast,' means so much to me, knowing that feeling where it's just where you imagined yourself, but it's flying by you at a million miles an hour.

Success is like a high-rise building I'm on the first floor. There are a lot of people in the basement or the parking lot but I was lucky enough to have made it to the first floor and I'm looking to make it to the penthouse.

So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.

In America, all things are possible.

For me, the American Dream was to go racing; for others, it's to pursue whatever their goals may be.

Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.

I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.

This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.

There is always room at the top.

There is more opportunity for a nobody to become a somebody in Washington than in the whirl-pool of New York.

Because you're a heartbeat away from the big office. That's why.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

I didn't think I'd even know a president of the United States, let alone work in the White House. Even though my parents always said you can do whatever you want to do, I never dreamed of this kind of an opportunity.

Iowa truly is a place where if you work hard, dream big, anything is possible.

You need doors to open, you need a chance - and you have got to have something, to take your chance when the door opens at the right time. My first port of call was to be a manager, then it was a successful manager, then it was a Premier League manager.

When you have been lucky enough to move up the ladder, all you see, really, is the slide back down. You don't see the further steps upwards.

I'm in this sport to change my life. I'm in this sport to change my parents' lives and the loved ones around me. That's really what I care about. And I can't do that if they keep putting me on these prelims.

I don't want to get corny, but my career really has been the personification of the American dream.

I'm just trying to do big things with my career all the time.

If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. That's why I play. If I made it in New York, you can make it anywhere.

There's some days you start to think, 'When is my chance going to come?' As a professional, you always have that at the back of your mind.