Top 300 Tim Ferriss Quotes (2023 Update)
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101. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.’ You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.”

— Tim Ferriss

102. “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” – J. Krishnamurti.”

— Tim Ferriss

103. “You must want to be a butterfly so badly, you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.”

— Tim Ferriss

104. “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” – Albert Einstein.”

— Tim Ferriss

105. “Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.”

— Tim Ferriss

106. “Busy is a decision.” Here’s why: Of the many, many excuses people use to rationalize why they can’t do something, the excuse “I am too busy” is not only the most inauthentic, it is also the laziest. I don’t believe in “too busy.” Like I said, busy is a decision. We do the things we want to do, period. If we say we are too busy, it is shorthand for “not important enough.”

— Tim Ferriss

107. “Being busy is a form of laziness – lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective – doing less – is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.”

— Tim Ferriss

108. “Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about. The heroes in this book are no different. Everyone struggles. Take solace in that.”

— Tim Ferriss

109. “The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It’s just like building muscles.”

— Tim Ferriss

110. “Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.”

— Tim Ferriss

111. “As Tony Robbins would say, “The quality of your questions determines the quality of your life.”

— Tim Ferriss

112. “Adversity doesn’t build character; it reveals it.”

— Tim Ferriss

113. “What gets measured gets managed. – PETER DRUCKER, management theorist, author.”

— Tim Ferriss

114. “Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask.”

— Tim Ferriss

115. “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” –Marcus Aurelius.”

— Tim Ferriss

116. “The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.”

— Tim Ferriss

117. “Never let a good crisis go to waste. It’s the universe challenging you to learn something new and rise to the next level of your potential.”

— Tim Ferriss

118. “Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. – ALBERT EINSTEIN.”

— Tim Ferriss

119. “One of the most universal causes of self-doubt and depression: trying to impress people you don’t like. Stressing to impress is fine, but do it for the right people – those you want to emulate.”

— Tim Ferriss

120. “Named must your fear be before banish it you can. – YODA, from Star Wars:.”

— Tim Ferriss

121. “You’re not responsible for the hand of cards you were dealt. You’re responsible for maxing out what you were given.”

— Tim Ferriss

122. “Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.” – Thomas Edison.”

— Tim Ferriss

123. “My goal is to learn things once and use them forever.”

— Tim Ferriss

124. “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.”

— Tim Ferriss

125. “Happiness is a choice you make and a skill you develop.”

— Tim Ferriss

126. “Don’t confuse the complex with the difficult. Most situations are simple – many are just emotionally difficult to act upon.”

— Tim Ferriss

127. “The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression.”

— Tim Ferriss

128. “If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. – CHINESE PROVERB.”

— Tim Ferriss

129. “The Tail End” by Tim Urban on the Wait But Why blog – if you only read one article this month, make it that one. It.”

— Tim Ferriss

130. “We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training.” – Archilochus.”

— Tim Ferriss

131. “Make your peace with the fact that saying ‘no’ often requires trading popularity for respect.” – Greg McKeown, Essentialism.”

— Tim Ferriss

132. “Too much, too many, and too often of what you want becomes what you don’t want.”

— Tim Ferriss

133. “If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.”

— Tim Ferriss

134. “Remember – boredom is the enemy, not some abstract “failure.”

— Tim Ferriss

135. “If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?”

— Tim Ferriss

136. “Aristotle had it right, but he was missing a number: “We are what we do repeatedly.”

— Tim Ferriss

137. “Refuse to accept partial completeness.”

— Tim Ferriss

138. “1. Doing something unimportant well does not make it important. 2. Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.”

— Tim Ferriss

139. “Everything popular is wrong. – OSCAR WILDE, The Importance of Being Earnest.”

— Tim Ferriss

140. “If you can’t see yourself working with someone for life, don’t work with them for a day.”

— Tim Ferriss

141. “Ours is a culture where we wear our ability to get by on very little sleep as a kind of badge of honor that symbolizes work ethic, or toughness, or some other virtue – but really, it’s a total profound failure of priorities and of self-respect.”

— Tim Ferriss

142. “Borrow liberally, combine uniquely, and create your own bespoke blueprint.”

— Tim Ferriss

143. “Learn to slow down. Get lost intentionally. Observe how you judge both yourself and those around you.”

— Tim Ferriss

144. “Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask. After all, conscious thinking is largely asking and answering questions in your own head. If you want confusion and heartache, ask vague questions. If you want uncommon clarity and results, ask uncommonly clear questions.”

— Tim Ferriss

145. “Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective – doing less – is the path of the productive.”

— Tim Ferriss

146. “It’s always the hard part that creates value.”

— Tim Ferriss

147. “Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness.”

— Tim Ferriss

148. “People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.” –Steve Jobs.”

— Tim Ferriss

149. “Not Dead, Can’t Quit.”

— Tim Ferriss

150. “When You Complain, Nobody Wants to Help You.”

— Tim Ferriss