Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

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

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

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

Losing is tough.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

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.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

Every summer’s mine.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Boot camp sucks – SEAL training sucks – but you know what? That’s what makes you good.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Life loves the liver of it.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

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.‘

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

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

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.