I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I’d just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don’t even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

I’ve worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‚I’m a Christian.‘ I always think, ‚Already? You’ve already got it?‘ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

God helps those who help themselves.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

My success rate speaks for itself.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

Success is the child of audacity.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

I’m here. I’m not going anywhere. No matter what the injury – unless it’s completely debilitating – I’m going to be the same player I’ve always been. I’ll figure it out. I’ll make some tweaks, some changes, but I’m still coming.

I am results-oriented.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

I’ve always been a fan of the VMAs, and I’ve always worked hard just to get a ticket to go to the VMAs.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

For me, I don’t want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.

I am a grafter.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

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

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

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.