Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower.

I think when people make a record with a goal in mind – like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature – that gets in the way of writing great songs.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

I have goals.

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn’t mean I do it.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

I sometimes just don’t like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

War is a contagion.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven’t had that fear.

Applause waits on success.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

What keeps me going is goals.

If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart.

I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States‘ response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

Big results require big ambitions.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that’s great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

At places like Davos, people like to tell success stories. But their financial success has come with an unthinkable price tag. And on climate change, we have to acknowledge we have failed.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the ’90s.

Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!

Those who ‚abjure‘ violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

I cook, I create, I’m incredibly excited by what I do, I’ve still got a lot to achieve.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

Violence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.