Waking up early was the first example I noticed in the SEAL Teams in which discipline was really the difference between being good and being exceptional.

Nobody’s indispensable.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

In this age, I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony – even vicious harmony – on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.

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.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

Whenever our neighbour’s house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

In all seriousness, people think that it’s the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words – that’s how long a novel is.

I won’t have to do any major changes to continue my career a long way, hopefully. Just hopefully stay healthy and be able to help a team out as I go through and still play at a pretty high level.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into ‚Starboy‘ is an honor.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

It’s very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

Once you get on the playing field it’s not about whether you’re liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That’s what it’s about.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn’t – to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions – ‚Get over it!‘