All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

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

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

People want to feel hopeful.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

When you’re 40, you can’t ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Boot camp sucks – SEAL training sucks – but you know what? That’s what makes you good.

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

God created man, but I could do better.