The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

As you think, so shall you become.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

I’m pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

People who pity themselves think, ‚Why would I try to do anything? I’ll just fail.‘

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.