WORDS THAT
FORGE MEN.

"The only easy day was yesterday."

"Get comfortable being uncomfortable."

"Under pressure, you don't rise to the occasion — you sink to the level of your training."

"Discipline equals freedom."

"You don't have to like it. You just have to do it."

"The most important thing in the world is family and love. Never forget that."

"It's not about the size of the dog in the fight, it's about the size of the fight in the dog."

"We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training."

"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever."

"If you want to be a warrior, you have to train like a warrior."

"The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war."

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."

"You are not your past. You are what you do right now."

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week."

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

"Don't count the days, make the days count."

"Embrace the suck."

"Slow is smooth, smooth is fast."

"You have to be willing to go to dark places that most people are afraid to go."

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."

"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."

"It never gets easier, you just get better."

"If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed."

"If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right."

"Sometimes no matter how well you prepare or how well you perform, you still end up as a sugar cookie. Don't complain. Don't blame it on your misfortune. Stand tall, look to the future, and drive on."

"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 your very resolve to continue. But if you want to change the world, don't back down from the sharks."

"Every day you are going to face a dark moment. Whether it is a physical challenge or a mental one, the darkness will come. And when it does, you must sing."

"It's not the size of your flippers that count, just the size of your heart."

"You must be your very best in the darkest moment."

"Hope is not a strategy, but it is a powerful force that can sustain you through the most difficult of times."

"Get over being a sugar cookie and keep moving forward."

"Ten men, one heart beat."

"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."

"Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go."

"No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it."

"For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control."

"The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me."

"Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize."

"Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint."

"Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong."

"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters."

"The Lord is my light and my salvation — whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life — of whom shall I be afraid?"

"Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way."

"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war."

"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."

"The supreme quality of leadership is integrity."

"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."

"You play the way you practice."

"Sweat more in training, bleed less in battle."

"The more I sweat in peace, the less I bleed in war."

"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened."

"The most dangerous man in the world is the one who has nothing to lose."

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are for."

"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."

"Know yourself and you will win all battles."

"The world needs men who will stand up and be counted. Not boys who wait to be told what to do."

"A boy becomes a man when he stops asking what the world can give him and starts asking what he can give to the world."

"Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times."

"Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."

"Show me a man who has never failed and I will show you a man who has never tried anything."

"You will never be the man you want to be if you keep making excuses for the man you are."

"The first and best victory is to conquer self."

"What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while."

"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything."

"Be the kind of man that when your feet hit the floor in the morning, the devil says 'Oh crap, he's up.'"

"Your future self is watching you right now through your memories. Make him proud."

"The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed."

"When you feel like quitting, think about why you started."

"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another."

"Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose."

"Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better."

"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek."

"Comfort is the enemy of achievement."

"You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with."

"For those who can't."

"Here am I. Send me."

"If you are so sure, burn the ships."

"Don't take criticism from someone you would never go to for advice."

"You should not worry about criticism from someone whose opinion you would never seek."

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena."

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

"If you're not willing to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary."

"No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable."

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood."

"Somebody has to go to the sound of the guns."

"If not me, then who? If not now, then when?"

"We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm."

"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."

"Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."