quotes of day Tuesday, July 21, 2026

“There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.”

“Emotion is more than just anger. When I am performing, I need emotion, but I need control, too. Emotion drives the best performance and is necessary, but it must be controlled. I believe Fedor [Emelianenko] does that. I do too. We may look different in how we do it, but we both do it.”

“Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.”

“The weak have no place here, in this life or any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death.”

“Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.”

“Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."”

“Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.”

“He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.”

“When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.”

“Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.”

“We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty... All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1000 days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin... And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.”

“Get rid of the judgement ... get rid of the 'I am hurt,' you are rid of the hurt itself.”

“Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on, and it is never cast down.”

“All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.”

“This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service.”