Mcraven Quotes

#1. I think the best way to get a good night sleep is to work hard throughout the day. If you work hard and, of course, work out.

William H. McRaven

#2. THE BOY RODE ALONG THROUGH THE DESERT FOR SEVERAL hours, listening avidly to what his heart had to say. It was his heart that would tell him where his treasure was hidden. "Where your treasure is, there also will be your heart," the alchemist had told him. But his heart was speaking of other things.

Paulo Coelho

#3. God did not intend that we should be cowards, or delinquents, or fools, or sinners or weaklings. He created us in his own image and commanded us to be men.

Sterling W. Sill

#4. Dear Miss Bowen, he begins. He hopes that he will receive another letter in turn.

Erin Morgenstern

#5. If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle.

William H. McRaven

#6. Land, domination, pre-emptive attacks - all just excuses, mundane justifications that do nothing but disguise the simple distinction. They are not us. We are not them.

Steven Erikson

#7. I'm not a political guy.

William H. McRaven

#8. Our once simple, unified meaning of life is being shattered into many, sometimes competing, concepts.

M..

#9. I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!

Frances Farmer

#10. Basic SEAL training is six months of long, torturous runs in the soft sand, midnight swims in the cold water off San Diego, obstacles courses, unending calisthenics, days without sleep and always being cold, wet and miserable.

William H. McRaven

#11. The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.

Charles Caleb Colton

#12. My wife and I make the bed every morning, but it's a queen size bed today, as opposed to a rack, you know, a small single bed, which I had in basic SEAL training.

William H. McRaven

#13. Speak truth to power.

Milan Kundera

#14. I think ninjas are probably quieter than SEALs, but we are better swimmers, and also better with guns and blowing things up.

William H. McRaven

#15. Courage is the currency of integrity.

Sallie Haws

#16. What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.

Aaron Swartz

#17. 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.

William H. McRaven

#18. 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.

William H. McRaven

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

William H. McRaven

#20. The sons of the blacksmith are not frightened at sparks.

Publilius Syrus

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

William H. McRaven

#22. But if you want to change the world, don't be afraid of the circuses.

William H. McRaven

#23. To me, basic SEAL training was a lifetime of challenges crammed into six months.

William H. McRaven

#24. In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

John Ruskin