I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

That’s when you know you’re the greatest: when you’re the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

There are a lot of inaccuracies out there when it comes to the SEAL training process. You will see guys carrying logs around on television. They think that the hardest part about being on a SEAL team is getting through that training. The fact of the matter is, if you have a good attitude, that training is fun. I had a blast.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Never confuse motion with action.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

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

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

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.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

I was always trying – I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

I focus on one thing and one thing only – that’s trying to win as many championships as I can.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

I tend not to really think about what other people say. I’d rather just try and focus on what I’m doing, try and win basically.

I am a grafter.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Never complain and never explain.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

I always have to be writing.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.