Best Naval Ravikant Quotes

I think it just helps to be very aware that fundamentally, there are no adults. Everyone is making it up as they go along. You have to find your own path, picking, choosing, taking and discarding as you see fit. ~ Naval Ravikant

The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target. ~ Naval Ravikant

My one repeated learning in life: 'There are no adults.' Everyone's making it up s they go along. Figure it out yourself, and do it." Naval Ravikant ~ Tim FERRIS

It's almost always possible to be honest and positive. ~ Naval Ravikant

A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought  -  they must be earned. ~ Naval Ravikant

Forty hour workweeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. Knowledge workers function like athletes  -  train and sprint, then rest and reassess. ~ Naval Ravikant

Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission. ~ Naval Ravikant

Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want. ~ Naval Ravikant

Often, the price for not being present is pain. Now, ~ Kamal Ravikant

I cannot emphasize enough the quality of those you surround yourself with. ~ Kamal Ravikant

Surrender means cleaning the window so light can enter. ~ Kamal Ravikant

Creating anything that never existed before is not sanity. ~ Kamal Ravikant

After all, it's the things we hold against ourselves that weigh us down more than anything. ~ Kamal Ravikant

Suffering is when we resist the moment. ~ Kamal Ravikant

Decide what your truth is. Then live it. ~ Kamal Ravikant

Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive. ~ George Washington

Threshold is where the madness ends and the magic begins. ~ Kamal Ravikant

Truth makes you rise to new heights, no matter where you are. ~ Kamal Ravikant

If I loved myself truly and deeply, would I let myself experience this? ~ Kamal Ravikant

Confidence comes from crossing thresholds. ~ Kamal Ravikant

If there's a definition of freedom, I think it's this: living life on your terms. ~ Kamal Ravikant

When we go all in, we find the answers. They're in us. ~ Kamal Ravikant

Once you cross the threshold, you will never be the same. That is a fact. ~ Kamal Ravikant

The only rule is that truth must empower you, make you better in every way possible. ~ Kamal Ravikant

We are far, far stronger than our pain ~ Kamal Ravikant

Forget demolishing the grooves of the past. What you're creating is a new groove so deep, so powerful, that your thoughts will automatically flow down this one. ~ Kamal Ravikant

There is one rule, though: once you discover your truth, you have to go all in. Fully. Every single chip. ~ Kamal Ravikant

instead of reading loads of self-help books, attending various seminars, listening to different preachers, we should just pick one thing. Something that feels true for us. Then practice it fiercely. ~ Kamal Ravikant

One thing I've learned: we don't stumble accidentally into an amazing life. It takes decision, a commitment to consistently work on ourselves. ~ Kamal Ravikant

Life is a river," a wise friend told me. "It's flowing. You're never at the same place twice. ~ Kamal Ravikant

As long as it works, it's valid. ~ Kamal Ravikant

What we believe, that's what we seek, it's the filter we view our lives through. ~ Kamal Ravikant

Success and failure come and go, but don't let them define you. It's who you are that matters. ~ Kamal Ravikant

Knowledge is never enough. Even action, if it's just following a prescribed way, will never fully express your potential. ~ Kamal Ravikant

Peace is letting it be. Letting life flow, letting emotions flow through you. ~ Kamal Ravikant

I once asked a monk how he found peace. "I say 'yes,'" he'd said. "To all that happens, I say 'yes. ~ Kamal Ravikant

How do you find peace?" I ask.
"I say 'yes,'" he says.
"To all that happens, I say 'yes. ~ Kamal Ravikant

The act of going within, finding our truth, and then sharing it, it helps us far more than we know. ~ Kamal Ravikant

You cannot stay at the same level as when you first practiced your truth, life won't let you. ~ Kamal Ravikant

Pain doesn't last. And when it's gone, we have something to show for it. Growth. ~ Kamal Ravikant

The truth is to love yourself with the same intensity you would use to pull yourself up if you were hanging off a cliff with your fingers. ~ Kamal Ravikant

Hemingway, whenever he was stuck in his writing, would tell himself to write one true thing. A true sentence. Then, he would write another. And another. It ~ Kamal Ravikant

There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship. ~ George Orwell

The simple act of putting your truth on paper, only you and your thoughts, is one of the most powerful exercises you can do. ~ Kamal Ravikant

As you love yourself, life loves you back. I don't think it has a choice either. I can't explain how it works, but I know it to be true. ~ Kamal Ravikant

It is not giving up, it is accepting. And the light will enter. Always does. ~ Kamal Ravikant

The things I carry are my thoughts. That's it. They are the only weight. My thoughts determine whether I am free and light or burdened. ~ Kamal Ravikant

Imagine the feeling of catching yourself loving yourself without trying. It's like catching a sunset out of the corner of your eye. It will stop you. ~ Kamal Ravikant

The greatest achievement of humanity is the human spirit. ~ Kamal Ravikant

So I return to the question, "if I loved myself, truly and deeply, what would I do?" The answer comes easy: I'd fly. Fly as high as I possibly can. Then, I'd fly higher. ~ Kamal Ravikant

So I ask myself the question, "if I loved myself, truly and deeply, what would I do?" I love this question. There is no threat, no right or wrong answer, only an invitation to my truth in this present moment. ~ Kamal Ravikant

Every Naval vessel has a contingent of Marines aboard. After all, the Sailors have to have someone to dance with. ~ Bob Hope

I think perhaps a better thing to want is fulfillment. A deeper state, one that comes from within, from being your best self. From living life the way you really wish to live it. Then, happiness emanates from within as a byproduct. Naturally. ~ Kamal Ravikant

All family stories are important, just as all people are important, and they deserve to be passed along. ~ Karen Chamberlain

To become powerful, to develop will, meditate on the naval center. ~ Frederick Lenz

Reach out, share your truth, tell someone, "This is who I am. This is what I stand for. Hold me to it." Often, we'll do far more for another than we will do for ourselves. ~ Kamal Ravikant

No matter how smart we may think we are, no matter how committed we are to our truth, we can lose our way. ~ Kamal Ravikant

You dive deeper, you strip away the cleverness and the words become more important than your ego and that's when you know it's real, when it's good. ~ Kamal Ravikant

A few years later the Naval Academy was founded at Annapolis, and a similar course was pursued to provide it with a corps of instructors. ~ Simon Newcomb

I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever. ~ Peter Berg

Naval Special Warfare is no place for the weak of heart, limb, or liver. ~ Chuck Pfarrer

Here we are, thinking that one needs to be in love with another to shine, to feel free and shout from the rooftops, but the most important person, the most important relationship we'll ever have is waiting, is craving to be loved truly and deeply. ~ Kamal Ravikant

The launch of Nautilus, the world's first atomic submarine marked a transition in naval warfare-a transition as sudden as that associated with the Monitor. ~ Waldemar Kaempffert

Memory is not set in stone. Any neuroscientist will tell you that. The more you remember something, especially if it's emotionally charged, the more you will reinforce the pathways connecting the neurons. Simply put, the more you think about it, the more you feel it, the stronger the memory. ~ Kamal Ravikant

Once heard someone explain thoughts as this: we, as human beings, think that we're thinking. Not true. Most of the time, we're remembering. We're re-living memories. We're running familiar patterns and loops in our head. For happiness, for procrastination, for sadness. Fears, hopes, dreams, desires. We have loops for everything. ~ Kamal Ravikant

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased. ~ John James Audubon

This day, I vow to myself to love myself, to treat myself as someone I love truly and deeply - in my thoughts, my actions, the choices I make, the experiences I have, each moment I am conscious, I make the decision I LOVE MYSELF. ~ Kamal Ravikant

Blackwater USA has already taken in more than $1 billion from the public coffers. All in all, that's not a bad take for Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater and a Naval Academy dropout who served less time under the colors of the nation, in uniform, than my most recent pair of boots. ~ Robert Bateman

I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it. ~ John L. Phillips

My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did. ~ Jack Adams

The Secret to Flight

Don't flap your wings so hard. It only exhausts you.

Close your eyes. Lean into the currents, say yes. Let the wind raise you higher and higher. So easy. That's what Eagles do.

Oh, this is the secret to life as well. ~ Kamal Ravikant

The stories Hemingway told, the life he lived, all of it ended with a squeeze of a finger on a trigger. What else could he have done if he had put the shotgun down, gone back to bed? What would he have learned in that moment of choosing to live, what other books would have been written? Meanwhile, ~ Kamal Ravikant

France and Italy have not yet signed this treaty or agreed to naval limitation as between those nations, but I have confidence that in time they will do so. ~ Frank B. Kellogg

To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression. ~ George Washington

I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting. ~ John D. Long

If a painful memory arises, don't fight it or try to push it away - you're in quicksand. Struggle reinforces pain. Instead, go to love. Love for yourself. Feel it. If you have to fake it, fine. It'll become real eventually. Feel the love for yourself as the memory ebbs and flows. That will take the power away. ~ Kamal Ravikant

If you're about to take a risk
one that comes from within, one that expresses your true nature, that brings up fear after fear after fear
you know what to do. One: do the work, create the value. Two: draw the people that encourage you closer. They're the only ones that matter. ~ Kamal Ravikant

I commanded a naval gunboat patrolling the Mekong Delta. Then when I came home after two tours of duty, I decided that the same sense of service demanded something more of me. ~ John F. Kerry

The key, at least for me, has been to let go. Let go of the ego, let go of attachments, let go of who I think I should be, who others think I should be. And as I do that, the real me emerges, far far better than the Kamal I projected to the world. There is a strength in this vulnerability that cannot be described, only experienced. ~ Kamal Ravikant

The POW camps of North Vietnam were packed with Air Force and Naval Academy graduates. The six midshipmen in my Naval Academy class of 1968 who served as liaisons between the Marine Corps and the Brigade of Midshipmen later suffered nine Purple Hearts in Vietnam, and one man killed in action. ~ Jim Webb

Keep in mind, Bandler once cured a guy who thought he was Jesus by bringing in three muscular football players dressed as Roman Centurions and wood for a life-size cross into his hospital room. Then, he proceeded to nail the cross together, pausing occasionally to measure the guy as the Centurions held him down. By the time they were ready for the crucifixion, the man was convinced he wasn't Jesus. Even after the drama had passed, the cure stuck. ~ Kamal Ravikant

There is a story, no doubt apocryphal, that gamers at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, have many times replayed the 1942 Battle of Midway - but have never been able to produce an American victory. ~ Robert Cowley

The amphibious landing of U.S. Marines on September 1950 at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, was one of the most audacious and spectacularly successful amphibious landings in all naval history. ~ Bernard Brodie

It is clear that the flame of True Freedom had passed with naval supremacy and constitutional, consultative government from the United Provinces to Great Britain, where it was regarded with quite as much national pride. ~ Peter Padfield

The dollar is the final term in almost every equation which arises in the practice of engineering in any or all of its branches, except qualifiedly as to military and naval engineering, where in some cases cost may be ignored. ~ Henry R. Towne

This I know: the mind, left to itself, repeats the same stories, the same loops. Mostly ones that don't serve us. So what's practical, what's transformative, is to consciously choose a thought. Then practice it again and again. With emotion, with feeling, with acceptance. Lay down the synaptic pathways until the mind starts playing it automatically. Do this with enough intensity over time and the mind will have no choice. That's how it operates. Where do you think your original loops came from? ~ Kamal Ravikant

Ironically, the Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and personnel in the Persian Gulf I mentioned earlier who are fighting terrorism will provide more support indirectly to this war in Iraq than most of the 46 countries that are fully supporting our efforts there. ~ Paul Cellucci

A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships - a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... [In Great Britain, the situation is similar.] ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most. ~ Abraham Flexner

I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms. ~ Lemony Snicket

The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks. ~ Hideki Tojo

In every age states of varying size and constitution and at every level of development have found naval warfare to be one of their most formidable and expensive tasks. Ships have always been large, costly and complicated, and warships much more complicated and costly than any others. Scholars are nowadays inclined to emphasize the power, wealth and sophistication of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, and there is not more striking illustration of this than the advanced and elaborate administrative structures of the early English navy. ~ Nicholas Rodger

floor of Bethesda Naval Hospital, sick with duodenal ~ Walter Isaacson

Success with Honor ~ Allen Meece

Being the commander of a Ruminarii war vessel meant that he had risen to the rank by means of assassination and ruthlessness and was therefore implicitly distrusted by the Tidhii Mah'k'hai (Naval Command, that is The Queen Of Suth Herself.) He was expected to mete out, in generous portions, brutality to conquered subjects and to act swiftly and mercilessly in dealing with alien encounters. In short, he was expected to be a bad example. ~ Christina Engela

The Battle for the Philippines was the greatest naval battle in history, judged in terms of the number of ships taking part, the number of ships sunk, and the importance of its outcome. It included every form of naval warfare of the 20th century: gunnery duels between battleships; destroyer battles at night and by day, as ferocious and sustained as any at the Battle of Jutland; submarines that stalked the depths; sinking many ships; and finally, carrier warfare on a scale never dreamed of even by the most ardent enthusiasts of air warfare at sea. ~ Richard Hough

Close with a Frenchman, but out-maneuver a Russian. ~ Horatio Nelson

Sailors have the cleanest bodies and the filthiest minds. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate. ~ Jimmy Buffett

One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers. ~ John Adams