Most of the pain you feel, you create. Most of the pain stems from the conversations we are having with ourselves. It is not the actual event outside of us that affects us. That's the case 99% of the time.
— Jody Michael“Children are bought and sold like animals, sometimes at a lower price than animals. 168 million children work as child labourers, more than 200 million children who should be in education are not at school.”— Kailash Satyarthi
Nobel Peace Prize Winner & Child Rights Activist Against Child Labor
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What people fail to recognise is that fear is different for everyone. Your emotions are unique to you and you've really, really got to take time to concentrate on yourself.
— Ant MiddletonSpecial Forces: World's Toughest Test Host & Former SAS Soldier
One of the simplest but hardest things to do is to be honest with ourselves. We are works-in-progress from the day we're born, till the day we die. You should never, ever, stop working on yourself.
— Ant MiddletonSpecial Forces: World's Toughest Test Host & Former SAS Soldier
I look at life as a game rather than as success and failure. For most people, failure is a dirty word... they avoid anything to do with failure, they won't go anywhere near it. It stops them trying – stops them committing – stops them experimenting.
— Ant MiddletonSpecial Forces: World's Toughest Test Host & Former SAS Soldier
If you feel scared; the starting point is to understand why. You need to then understand how to make the fear work for you – if an emotion doesn't work for you, it works against you.
— Ant MiddletonSpecial Forces: World's Toughest Test Host & Former SAS Soldier
For all of us, greatness is there from the off, it's right there in your headspace and mindset. It's sabotaged either by yourself or by what's going on around you. Society restricts us in a way that doesn't allow us to operate at our full potential.
— Ant MiddletonSpecial Forces: World's Toughest Test Host & Former SAS Soldier
Taoism speaks to the interconnectedness of the universe, and how everything and everyone has an impact on everything and everyone. Governance must widen its' perspectives to think about the implications, and ramifications, of business in society.
— Brian A. WongJack Ma encouraged the entire company to practice and learn Tai Chi in their free time, it is a practice that allows one to embrace the seeming contradictions in the world, and in business. Let me give you some examples – how do you become a profitable business while also doing good for society?
— Brian A. WongThe real scarcity today is attention to the importance of the question, to what end are we deploying this capital. The knowledge age economy is aspirational and that is where I believe we should aim for as we are clearly not there yet. We are in a limbo now, an interregnum phase and this is when everything is particularly unsettling.
— Albert WengerPartner at Andreessen Horowitz, early Bitcoin and cryptocurrency advocate
On a personal level, the best defense against materialism and greed is to give money away. You need to be charitable, engage in philanthropy.
— Mike EvansNFL Wide Receiver for Tampa Bay Buccaneers & Super Bowl Champion
Every business makes money as a secondary purpose. It's the coincidental result of creating customer value and changing the world in some way that people are willing to pay for and find valuable.
— Mike EvansNFL Wide Receiver for Tampa Bay Buccaneers & Super Bowl Champion
All we can control in this life is our dedication, our self-belief, our determination. I can guarantee you, I will always have that, and that's my legacy. That's what I want to leave as a gift to my kids – the message that they should never give up, never have regrets, to give everything.
— Francis NgannouFormer UFC Heavyweight Champion & Mixed Martial Arts Pioneer
The reason why I fight is that I'm fighting against the pain of seeing my family get sick and fighting against not being able to help them. That's more painful than anything. To see my kids, get sick tomorrow and not being able to help them? That's more painful than anything I would experience in a fight.
— Francis NgannouFormer UFC Heavyweight Champion & Mixed Martial Arts Pioneer
Everyone has a little bit of warrior in them. We all grow up and have a little piece of us which wants to be a superhero, who goes and fights the bad guys. In real life, fighting is tough, you have to overcome your fears – nobody really wants to get into a fight! Escaping that fear is the reason so many people who get into combat sports.
— Francis NgannouFormer UFC Heavyweight Champion & Mixed Martial Arts Pioneer
If you fail many times in life, it can be frustrating, but, if you look differently at that, you can see that if you fail many times, you get up many times. If you didn't get up after the first fall, you could never have fought. Failure just means you got knocked down.
— Francis NgannouFormer UFC Heavyweight Champion & Mixed Martial Arts Pioneer
Only one second in time you can find peace – now. There's only one second you can be happy – now. There's only one place you can find peace and happiness. Where you are. This is it, it's not out there somewhere, it's in you.
— Marshall GoldsmithWorld's Most Cited Executive Coach & Leadership Development Expert