Day One

There is no idealistic future. You know, where it's just gonna-- it's gonna all be right, and we're just gonna be happy. Tragedy is that we don't recognize it until after the fact. Everything is-- it's so cyclical. Everything that is good, we can be 100% guaranteed that it's going to get bad again. And as bad as it is, we can be 100% guaranteed that it's going to get good again. The key is to not waste that suffering. When it comes, like, see it as a... See it as a gift. As an opportunity to open our eyes and to value, y'know, what it is that we have. Recognize what is good and really be able to valuе it as it's happening

Every single good thing that happеns in our lives comes at a cost. There's nothing for free. But at the same time, everything we struggle with has opportunity and lesson that goes with it. My career and the concept of 'why' came out of me losing my passion and hating work. I went through depression. I never wanna go through that again, but I'm really glad it happened

I believe that everything happens for a reason. And sometimes, good things fall apart so better things can fall together

[Oprah]
And so, by the time you're in prison, that's not rock bottom for you?

[Robert Downey Jr.]
No

[Oprah]
You are Robert Downey Jr., Golden Globe Award, Oscar nominee, movies, the life most people look at and think "Gee, I'd like a piece of that life", and then...

[Mike Tyson]
God punishes you by giving you a piece of everything you want... to see if you can handle it, I mean, He wants to show you something. He wants to see how much you can take, how much you can handle of life

[Robert Downey Jr.]
It's easy to embrace hopelessness when things seem insurmountable. It's not that difficult to overcome these seemingly ghastly problems

[Oprah]
You are saying that it's not that difficult?

[Robert Downey Jr.]
No. What's hard is to decide

[Michael Jordan]
You gotta understand, before you succeed you must first learn to fail. Like, if you fail one or two times, then you stop pursuing a dream, you ain't ready anyway

[Jay-Z]
But that's with everything, right? In life, people emulate the end result and not the process

[Robert Downey Jr.]
Most difficult situations will resolve themselves if you are persistent. If you don't give up entirely, and that's what I never did. I never gave up

[Arnold Schwarzenegger]
Michael Jordan missed nine thousand shots. He failed nine thousand times. Do you get it? We all failed. It's okay. What is not okay is, that when you fail, you stay down

[Tim S. Grover]
Think about the times where everything was going wrong. Nothing was going right. When there was no friends around, there was no family, you were in that place... What kept you going? When does a new day start? At midnight. If a new day starts in the dark, why are you afraid to have-- use your dark side for your new beginnings?

[Kobe Bryant]
There will be times when you succeed and times that you fail. Wasting your time doubting whether you’re gonna be successful or not is pointless. You just put one foot in front of the other, you control what you can control, and then you see what the outcome is. If you win? Great, you're gonna have to wake up the next day and do the journey over again. If you lose? Sucks, but you're gonna have to wake up the next day and do the journey over again anyway

There's gonna be certain seasons in life to where you in the season of just enduring. No matter how much things go well, you gonna be in some seasons of your life to where you feel like ain't nothing working. You coming down the court, clear shot at the basket, ain't nothing falling. Man, you not crazy. This is life! There's nothing wrong with you! These are the ups, downs, successes, failures, this is the totality of the process of life. There's nothing wrong with you, and you can't escape it

[Jeff Bauman (Jake Gyllenhaal)]
You stay calm!

[Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul)]
If you just do stuff and nothing happens...

[Jeff Bauman (Jake Gyllenhaal)]
Why do you even want me?!

[Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul)]
...what's it all mean? What's the point?

[Inky Johnson]
When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked into it. That's what the storm is all about. When you can't control what's happening to you, you control how you respond to it. That's where your power is

[Mike Tyson]
Because sometimes, we don't understand life, "What is this thing? What is my purpose? Why am I here? Why do I have to through this pain? Why do I have to through this fear all the time? Why can't it just be peaceful all the time?" Then it wouldn't be life

[Inky Johnson]
Like, I know the initial reaction when we go through things is to say "Man, why did this have to happen to me?" And that's an honest reaction! Because sometimes, good people go through some crazy stuff! And some of the things we go through, Imma just be real, there's not a-- there's not a scripture for it!

[Mike Tyson]
We have to take life at its terms. Life on life's terms. Not our... Life on our terms. We have to live life on life's terms. You say you love life, you wanna live li-- Imma show you life. Life is beautiful, but you have to accept the good and the bad as being beautiful

You want the whole blueprint, it's like "No, no, no. Just take the first step."

[Denzel Washington]
If you don't fail, you're not even trying