Jeffrey Fry Quotes

The sun loves the moon so much that he dies every night to let her breathe, and in return, she reflects his love.

Sometimes life seems a dark tunnel with no light at the end, but if you just keep moving forward, you will end up in a better place.

Do not be a one in a million person, be a once in a lifetime individual.

To be taken seriously, try being educated instead of opinionated.

To realize that everything in the universe is connected is to both accept our insignificance and understand our importance in it.

Winners have no interest or association in the opinions, actions or affairs of losers.

You can buy a person’s time and work, but you cannot buy their enthusiasm, effort, and passion. Those are earned, and as such, given freely.

A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.

Love sees the thorns but cherishes the rose anyway.

Everyone in your life gives you something. The bad ones give you experience, the worst ones a lesson; the good ones give you memories, the best ones, joy.

Excellence does not come from believing in excellence, but from constant change, challenge, and improvement.

Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

Only those who can see the invisible, can do the impossible.

Music is often the spark that lights the fire of the soul.

Great leadership involves three things. The ability to realize when you are wrong, a willingness to learn from it, and an eagerness to change course if necessary.

You discover you are old when your regrets replace your dreams.

Love is about giving freedom and power, not about gaining control or possession.

Do not let your past insecurities ruin your future victories.

Just because our brains are limited in size, does not mean our minds need be.

I believe it is possible to make magic every day.

Everyone deserves someone who can make them forget their heart was ever broken.

Deep breaths are very useful with shallow people.

The best compliment someone can give me is stealing my idea and making it their own.

I will never be normal. Normal is just another word for average.

Confidence is armor you cannot buy.

There is no feeling quite so lonely as failure.

An open mind and heart usually lead you to those who have the same.

It is amazing how much wisdom has been handed down through the ages, yet we still make the same mistakes.

Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.

You will never be alone if you like the person you are with when you are by yourself.

Resentment and bitterness build the cage that only punishes ourselves.

Every endeavor, large or small, rises and falls on leadership.

Success involves going to where others believe is too far.

Competition reveals the competent.

Great relationships do not depend on who you find, they depend on who you are.

Master yourself, your thoughts and feelings, and you master the whole universe.

Associating with winners may not make you a winner, but associating with losers will definitely not make you one.

Living in the past is a place that has no future.

A man convinced against his will, stands opposed ever still. A man convinced he is right, gives the effort twice the fight.

Investing in a startup does not make you an entrepreneur any more than buying a grand piano makes you a concert pianist.

Once you have gone first class, everything else is coach.

Often doors of opportunity are opened, but few opt to walk through them.

When you discover true happiness you will find that you are wealthier beyond the dreams of kings.

You cannot enjoy life unless you are happy.

Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.

Sometimes the best solution is to stop trying to change people.

You cannot teach a person anything who does not want to learn.

Trust is tough since it involves that quixotic mix of integrity, vulnerability, and intimacy. But trust anyway.

If necessity is the mother of invention, then dissatisfaction must be its father.

Defeat your fears and you can never be defeated.

Unless you can demonstrate your benefits, all you are left to compete with is price.

I believe the greatest ability to possess is the ability to find, develop, and promote abilities in other people.

What a poor life I have had if I am only remembered for the amount of money I made.

As a blacksmith uses heat to temper steel, so should a trial by fire strengthen one’s mettle.

I never wake up in the morning and wonder why I am here. I wake up and wonder why I am not making here better.

A tree that does not blossom, will bear no fruit

I would rather have someone say they hate me and mean it, than have someone say they love me and not.

Once you learn how to think you can teach yourself anything.

Music shortens the distance between all people.

True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.

Skills can be trained, character is inbred.

Opportunity may come to the patient, but always comes to the persistent.

It is not important what is said, what is important is what is heard.

Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success.

Leadership begins by asking how you can make things better?

To improve oneself you must be as persistent as the drip, drip, drip of water filling a bucket. Do a little bit, every day.

Learn to love yourself for you cannot give to others what you do not possess.

Fighting external monsters is easy in comparison to how we fight those within us.

Be bold in life. Seize the moment. There is no surrender, no retreat. There is only conquer or be conquered, victory or defeat. Anything less is to be forgotten to history.

Opportunity arises when a seemingly impossible task is met with an improbable solution.

In creating we mimic and pay homage to the Creator.

Bravery is when you walk into a battle you are not sure of winning.

Hell is not a place you go for your sins. It is where you are when you are not sharing the gifts you were given.

Love is the suspension of reality in favor of the sublime.

Success is a slow process, and quitting does not speed it up.

I have often found the most productive people appear not to be working at all.

You cannot control what other people do, only how you react to it.

What differentiates humans from all other creatures is the deep and unquenching desire to be appreciated.

A leader is the one who is pulling the sled hardest.

No matter how much we think about something, in the end, the decision is made on how we feel.

Greatness comes not in possessing security, but in withstanding insecurity.

If you want to lift yourself up, see who is bringing you down, and get rid of them.

Being an entrepreneur is like being a pirate. Go for the booty and discover new, uncharted lands

When you are happy, you are free; when you are free, you can be creative; when you are creative, your divine self comes out.

Though I can make a friend in an hour, it will take a lifetime to cultivate a friendship.

It is ok to question yourself, but never ok to doubt yourself.

An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear.

Great leadership makes ordinary people into extraordinary people.

The forces of freedom and choice will always triumph against the forces of conformity and control.

Sometimes you need to lose everything to find what is valuable.

Go to where you do not know what you do not know. That is where you will find all your opportunities.

Fear is caused by the uncertainty of the future. Sorrow is caused by the remembrance of the past. Try to keep your thoughts in the present, for the future we will never know and the past we may never understand.

When your back is against the wall, you will find it is a good place to push off.

Trust yourself. Make sure your mistakes are your own, not somebody else’s.

Learn the difference between good and great and then chose greatness.

Eating humble pie is not very enjoyable, and it is even less so eating it alone.

Being good is making it look easy, but getting good is never easy.

I have never been afraid of dying, I have only been afraid of not living fully.

Do not grieve when something good ends, be glad that it happened.

Shower while there were two dead bodies in the bathtub, and he was sane. He drilled holes in the heads of living people to make them his unresisting companions, and he was sane. He ate a bicep which he fried in a skillet, tenderised and sprinkled with sauce, and he was sane. For hours he lay with corpses, hugging them, cherishing them, and he was sane. He kept eleven assorted heads and skulls, and two complete skeletons, for eventual use in a home-made temple, and he was sane.