Any man who has had the job I’ve had and didn’t have a sense of humor wouldn’t still be here.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

Actor’s life is very long.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

I’ve always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

What is once well done is done forever.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

When I checked into SEAL Team One many years ago, one of the things that I noticed was there was this old guy, who was younger than I am today, who I decided that I was going to be like. I wanted to emulate what he was doing, and one of those things was he got to work before anybody else.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.