Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

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

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

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

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

If it doesn’t work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

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.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

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.‘

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

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

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.