Zitate und Sprüche von Ivory Quinn

You challenge me and I feel more alive than I have done in years

If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is the best.

My dad always told me, "I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner."

Your love makes me strong, your hate makes me unstoppable!

When you're rowing a race and you get to the last 20 meters your entire body is telling you to stop. Your muscles are on fire. Your lungs are screaming at you. Everything inside you wants to quit, make the pain go away. But if you want to win, that's exactly when you dig deeper and you row harder.

Dream big and anything is possible!

Second is the first of the losers.

Reality is something you rise above.

Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon!

The guy who wants too much risks losing absolutely everything. Of course, the guy who wants too little from life might not get anything at all.

Challenge yourself; it's the only path which leads to growth.

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

There's winning and there's losing - and in life both will happen. What is never acceptable to me is quitting.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Nothing makes me more determined to succeed than someone telling me something's impossible.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.

The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead; never let up!

It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better.

If you want to improve, you have to set high targets.

I don't mind getting older. I'm enjoying not having that raging ambition I've had all my life.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.

You're constantly trying to prove yourself, even after you've made it.

You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fire about your career.

I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.

I think I am difficult to satisfy, because when I win something, I'm already thinking about the next step, and that is maybe a problem for me. I'm not enjoying the moment. I'm already on the mission to win the next trophy.

I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.

When one guy is doing good, it makes all the others want to achieve greatness.

Being number two sucks.

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.

Humans had always been better at killing than any other living thing.

"And what if there's nothing in there?"
"You die and there's nothing beyond that. Nothing. Nothing remains. Someone might remember you for a little while after but not for long."

There's only one thing that can save a man from madness and that's uncertainty.

The number of places in paradise is limited; only in hell is entry open to all.

Do you know the parable about the frog in the cream? Two frogs landed in a pail of cream. One, thinking rationally, understood straight away that there was no point in resistance and that you can't deceive destiny. But then what if there's an afterlife – why bother jumping around, entertaining false hopes in vain? He crossed his legs and sank to the bottom. The second, the fool, was probably an atheist. And she started to flop around. It would seem that she had no reason to flail about if everything was predestined. But she flopped around and flopped around anyway . . . Meanwhile, the cream turned to butter. And she crawled out. We honour the memory of this second frog's friend, eternally damned for the sake of progress and rational thought.

There are some things that you don't want to do and you pledge to yourself that you won't do, you forbid yourself, and then suddenly they happen all by themselves. You don't even have time to think about them, and they don't make it to the cognitive centres of the brain: they just happen and that's it, and you're left just watching yourself with surprise, and convincing yourself that it wasn't your fault, it just happened all by itself.

The same species can't remain dominant forever. Humanity can't be the only ones to survive extinction. Do you think the ammonites and the dinosaurs resisted extinction like we do? Of course not! They graciously accepted their destinies. They weren't just unintelligent enough to avoid it. Humanity goes around recording and sharing our past to help us predict our future, and because of that we just assume that we can change our destiny. That we can overcome something like the Death Stranding. But it's all lies. This world doesn't need us anymore. It's trying to evict us to make room for the next species. And the harder we try and the harder we struggle against it, the more we sully it. Being holed up in here, I bet you have no idea how beautiful the outside world is, do you? How harsh it is? The world didn't change into what it is now for mankind's sake. It's trying to change for the life that comes next.

I soared above the song birds
And never heard them sing
I lived my life in winter
And then you brought the spring

War is a farmer's son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker's son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why.