A.J. Darkholme Quotes - Page 3

Significant change requires significant sacrifice.

When life brings you mountains, you don’t waste your time asking why; you spend your time climbing over them.

Don’t let the fact you haven’t done something before convince you that you can’t do it, or that it cannot be done perfectly the first time you try your hand at it.

Remain open-minded, even when you believe yourself to be a king among peasants. You never know what blessings can be gained or crises averted just by listening.

Anything you don’t want to deal with can always be written off as being “in the past” and ignored, but in doing so, you sweep it under a rug where it doesn't go away with time – it becomes time itself, and takes on the illusion of life as we think we know it.

We’re all blurry-eyed wanderers of time, and the unfortunance of it all is that we’d probably all go on to do great things if only we searched for what corrected and focused our vision instead of relying on our past – life’s grand kaleidoscope – to help us find our way forward.

The older you get, the faster time passes in your mind, so use your time according to what is most important.

Your biggest dreams can become reality, not by brute-forcing the end-goal, but breaking it down into smaller, more manageable parts. If your goal takes years, breaking it down into months and days will let you improve your lot little bits at a time.

Sometimes we exist long enough to lead the next generation; other times, only to plant a seed and let its resonations of our time here on Earth ripple into new waves.

Why spend your life working on defense when no defense can be made truly impenetrable? Take the offensive – learn the vulnerabilities of the world around you and be the change you wish to see rather than living in constant fear of what may happen to you instead.

Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through.

Fear is for the powerless. Fear is for the alone. But as you stand together now, you are neither of those. Together, you amplify each other’s strengths; you nullify each other’s weaknesses.

In the grand scheme of life, nobody grows old keeping their soul unblemished.

Once you start settling, and letting others control your life, it can quickly become a habit, so it’s best to avoid such things altogether.

Let your fear drive you to evolve into greatness.

Emperors are not made from cowards; they are made from those who take great risk where there stands to be even greater gain.

We are creatures of habit more than we are creatures of change.

Though there is much we still want, there is much we already have, and that means we have much to lose as well. It’s that potential loss that can keep us bound so tightly that we never reach our biggest dreams, because the biggest dreams require the most risk.

People fear what they do not understand.

Sometimes the heart can hear what the ears do not.