Motivational quotes

Know that life is not fair and that you will fail often.

Life is filled with circuses. You will fail. You will likely fail often. It will be painful. It will be discouraging. At times it will test you to your very core.

A circus was two extra hours of calisthenics for trainees who had missed the day's standard.

Making your bed will also reinforce the fact that little things in life matter.

SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status.

On the smallest boat crew in his class, which out-swam and out-ran every other.

So, if you want to change the world, don’t back down from the sharks.

The power of one person — Washington, Lincoln, King, Mandela and even a young girl from Pakistan, Malala — one person can change the world by giving people hope.

You can’t change the world alone — you will need some help — and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.

These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James closes his address by arguing that trust and action can help determine the moral character of the life one experiences.

First comes the very extremity of distress, then follows unexpected relief.

On what happens when a doctor forces an invalid, much against his will, past the point where he usually stops.

Unclamp, in a word, your intellectual and practical machinery, and let it run free; and the service it will do you will be twice as good.

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

Dark pictures and gloomy forebodings are worse than useless.

The next sentence: These only becloud, they do not help to point the way of safety and honor.