The special ops guys and the firefighters around the world have this great phrase. They say, ‚Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,‘ and that is true. Everything I’ve accomplished in my life has been because of that attitude.

It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

I’m sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I’m on that list. I’m a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.

People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I’m in.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

Being ‚contented‘ ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

There are a lot of inaccuracies out there when it comes to the SEAL training process. You will see guys carrying logs around on television. They think that the hardest part about being on a SEAL team is getting through that training. The fact of the matter is, if you have a good attitude, that training is fun. I had a blast.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders.

I love women with attitude.

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

I always have an optimistic view, no matter what it is.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

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.

When you’re singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It’s happening.

A lot of guys are able to separate how they act off the court versus how they act on the court.

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

‚No comment‘ is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.