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

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

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.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

Don’t program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

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

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

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.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.

I’m very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

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

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

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

I think that’s why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven’t given people everything.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

I was raised on, ‚You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.‘

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

It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

Never, never, never give up.