Ryan Holiday Quotes

It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.

Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to your ability to choose, unless that is your choice. Lameness is a hindrance to the leg, but not to your ability to choose. Say this to yourself with regard to everything that happens, then you will see such obstacles as hindrances to something else, but not to yourself.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

We can all be weak, but we all have to make a conscious decision to be strong.

You can fall out of a tree pose with ease, or with frustration and a sense of defeat. Just like you can take a spill in your life and decide to dust yourself off - with a chuckle or an annoyed grunt - and get back up, or you can stay down, lie there, and give up. It's entirely up to you. It's your life, and your practice.

I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make.

I'm a fighter and not a victim. Think of yourself and make the most of life.

Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

If you fall then that's not all... if you wish to be down then stay down... if you wish to be up then get up.

I say to people that it's a choice that we make every day in our lives. Doesn't matter what you're going through. You don't have to be going through what I went through. But it's whether you decide to get up or stay down, whether you say 'yes' or whether you say 'no' to life. Basically, I decided to say, 'Yes.'

A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

None of us has control over the economy, the job market, or anything else in the global sense. But we are 100% in charge of how we respond to challenges that come our way, be it the loss of a job, a career derailment, or some other disappointment.

For me, beauty is me at the top of my game, going as hard as I can, without fear of what anyone else thinks. Believing in yourself when nobody else is believing in you is half the battle about anything.

I've always been pretty independent, no matter what situation: good, bad, ugly, happy, sad. I dig deep, and I get over it.

There are situations where you are left robbed of all quality of life, and I believe it is entirely up to you how you want to deal with that. You can follow the dictates of religion if that is what you believe in, or you can take a personal decision.

I am going to walk away when I'm ready to walk away. Not because of a win or a loss.

My advice to people with any disease is to live above it.

You control what you can control.

People could tell me I was not good at something and, even if I wasn't, I told myself I was.

You can't always change your circumstances, but you can change the way you experience them.