Quote of the Day
Standing on the shoulders of giants.
Over a decade of quotes on trading, discipline, patience and mindset that I keep coming back to. Some from market legends, some from philosophers, a few from the trail.
Read one before the open. Then go do the work.
Quote of the Day #QOTD
We’re all human beings. Experience is experience, let’s just be honest. Let’s not try and dissect suffering into a race, or whatever you want to call it. We’re all human beings, one way or another. All races have gone through times that are challenging; that’s part of being a human.
“We’re all human beings. Experience is experience, let’s just be honest. Let’s not try and dissect suffering into a race, or whatever you want to call it. We’re all human beings, one way or another. All races have gone through times that are challenging; that’s part of being a human.” ”
You may not be responsible for your childhood conditioning but you need to have responsibility for your actions towards undoing it as an adult. Blaming your past for a limiting mindset does not fix it. You have to seek new ways of thinking and practice the thought processes.
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“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
“Words are dangerous things, equally capable of bringing peace and inciting violence. They get under your skin, make you feel, make you hurt, make you love, make you feel alive. Be careful with how you choose to use them.”
“Within the furthest reaches of the heart lie those desires whose name one dares not speak. So seductive, so intoxicating, so indulgent, our most private passions burn at the molten core of our being, luring us to the very heights of ecstasy and depths of despair.”
“I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.”
“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
“I have learned silence from the talkative,
tolerance from the intolerant,
and kindness from the unkind.
I should not be ungrateful to these teachers.”
“Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is… the highway to success.”
“Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.”
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
“Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourself a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles which you would perhaps never know if you did not sometimes slip backward. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is lost.”