I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

After all those years in Asia, I don’t have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and – Boom! – people go.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

I’ve had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

It is always your next move.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy’s finest hour.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

What keeps me going is goals.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

I can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‚gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.‘ Nope.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

In this age, I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony – even vicious harmony – on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

I’m super serious about music. That’s, like, the only thing I’m serious about.

I will never retire unless I have to.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

If it doesn’t work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

Bring them on.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

I’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.