He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

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

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

If you’re waiting for the perfect moment, you’ll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There’s nothing foolproof.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Time is the least thing we have of.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

Giving up cannot be an option.

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.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

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.

Well, I’m working all the time to stay out of trouble!

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.