If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

The time to worrying about flying is when you’re on the ground. When you’re up in the air, it’s too late. No point in worrying about it then.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one’s belly, in order to be able to save one’s head.

Little things affect little minds.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don’t intend to give in either till all is completed.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

The older you get, the better you get.

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written… Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn’t have much of a social life going on.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘