Marnus Prinsloo > Marnus's Quotes

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!" It seems to me that there is nothing which would stimulate a man's sense of responsibleness more than this maxim, which invites him to imagine first that the present is past and, second, that the past may yet be changed and amended.”
― Viktor Frankl

“Heraclitus, a philosopher born in the Persian Empire back in the fifth century BC, had it right when he wrote about men on the battlefield. “Out of every one hundred men,” he wrote, “ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior…”
― David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

“Be more than motivated, be more than driven, become literally obsessed to the point where people think you're fucking nuts.”
― David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

“We’re either getting better or we’re getting worse.”
― David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

“If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labour passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures.” – Musonius Rufus”
― Philip Ghezelbash, The Stoic Body: An Ancient Twist To Modern Health