Get off your butt and join the Marines!

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

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

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

Apart from the fact that any hardy exercise conduces much to the training and formation of a soldier, pig-sticking tends to give a man what is called a ‚stalker’s eye,‘ but which, par excellence, is the soldier’s eye.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

Missionaries serve to make life better for God’s children.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

I’m not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can’t afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

To rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.