How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

It’s not bragging if you can back it up.

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

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

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

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

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

A smart girl leaves before she is left.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

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

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

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.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

I think we need more idiot control.

I’m not looking for sympathy at all.

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

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.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that’s never been me.

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

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

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

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.