I thought one should have the attitude of ‚What do you care what other people think!‘

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

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.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

I don’t tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

Freedom lies in being bold.

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

I’m a can-do girl.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don’t ever call me Peter – that was just my government name.

I’ve never been one to sit back and go, ‚I’d better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don’t want to lose them.‘

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

God made me and broke the mold.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

I don’t want to impugn the motives of my colleagues, but my attitude is, speaking just for me, you either believe in border security or you don’t.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

There isn’t anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

If I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

When I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don’t think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

I always liked different things, rare things.

Rather be dead than cool.

For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

Our intention creates our reality.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself – let’s put it that way.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Ultimately, I’m not doing that much. I’m only doing what a human being who feels wants to do – in my way, without stepping out of my flow, while staying in my lane. Without, I guess, boring people.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

It’s not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to the subject. This is what people like about my work, and what the critics hate.