I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

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.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I’m trying to pull out of the ground that doesn’t want to come out? I know I’ll win.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Silence is a source of great strength.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

This lady is not for turning.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you’re dealt?

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

Losing is not an option in Kolkata. It’s not easy, a lot of players even quit.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

I’m the most stubborn person I know.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

I will not be triumphed over.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

I know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.