We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

Our vision and commitment is towards the country’s progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

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

Never mistake motion for action.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

To the Master’s honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton’s ground.

I can barely walk, but it’s a privilege to be able to move at all.

If anyone remembers me, it’s about my hard work.

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don’t just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.

I know I’m more on television, and I’m more recognisable than maybe even the players because they run and train, but I just stand there, and my face does all these funny things that everyone can see all the time.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

There was my name up in lights. I said, ‚God, somebody’s made a mistake.‘ But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, ‚Remember, you’re not a star.‘ Yet there it was up in lights.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president’s birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing ‚Happy Birthday,‘ like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, ‚Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!‘

My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

Once you have six children, you’re committed.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

I didn’t get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

All missionaries, younger and older, serve with the sole hope of making life better for other people.

I don’t understand what it’s all about or what’s worth what, but if the people in the Swedish Academy decide that x, y or z wins the Nobel Prize, then so be it.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

There’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can.