The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man… It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

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

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

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

The emotion to handle the pressure is one of the biggest challenges in football – it’s the top challenge.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

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

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

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

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

I’m not resigned, but I’m realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it’s a certainty you’ll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it’s an awful process.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

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

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory.

Fight with a happy heart.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

We’ve been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can’t do – about what is impossible.

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

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.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Our intention creates our reality.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.