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If you want to change the world, start singing when you’re up to your neck in mud.

If you want to change the world, you must be your very best in the darkest moment.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Imperturbability means coolness and presence of mind under all circumstances, calmness amid storm, clearness of judgment in moments of grave peril, immobility, impassiveness, or, to use an old and expressive word, phlegm.

Take no thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Throw away, in the first place, all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well.

Let the day's work suffice; live for it, regardless of what the future has in store, believing that to-morrow should take thought for the things of itself.

It is always the man who has tasted life who demands more of it.

The brain can be trained, as the hand and eye can be trained; it can be made as obedient as a sporting dog, and by similar methods.

The secret of calm cheerfulness is kindliness; no person can be consistently cheerful and calm who does not consistently think kind thoughts.

There is no royal road to the control of the brain.

He who observes the wind won’t sow; and he who regards the clouds won’t reap.

In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.