Embrace the Suck: The Navy SEAL Way to an Extraordinary Life

If you stumble, find the root cause and move on. Don’t let yourself get wrapped up in guilt, anger, or frustration, because these emotions will only drag you further down and impede future progress. Learn from your missteps and forgive yourself. Then get your head back in the game and violently execute.

Please tell him that my words will make no difference when his balls are in his stomach from being so cold. Men don’t get many chances to show their grit! You need to pray for bad weather! Pray for the coldest water! Pray for a broken fucking body! You should want the worst-case scenario for everything you do in Hell Week! Pray for it to be so hard that only your fucking boat crew makes it all the way through! They succeed because you lead those motherfuckers through the worst Hell Week ever! You have to become the devil to get through Hell! This shit is about your fucking mindset! If you are hoping for the fucking best-case scenario in Hell Week, you are not ready! Know that no motherfucker can endure what you can. Not because you believe in yourself. But because you have trained harder than any motherfucker alive!

Happiness and fulfillment come from focus, discipline, and self-control. It may be hard to believe when you’re facing an all-you-can-eat buffet, the prospect of making a quick buck, or the lazy lure of sleeping in versus getting on the Peloton, but studies show that people with self-discipline are happier. Why? Because with discipline and self-control we actually accomplish more of the goals we truly care about.

Never out of the fight. I believe in this life philosophy so much that I have it tattooed on my arm in Latin. Numquam Proelia Derelinquam. It needs no interpretation.

Uncompromising integrity is my standard.

From this day to the ending of the world, but we in it shall be remembered. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.

As King Richard I said in an address to his men during the Third Crusade in 1192: Our destiny awaits us, but even though we are outnumbered do not fear the hand of death. Everybody dies eventually. Not everyone can choose to end their time with glory and honor. To stand as brothers in arms, shoulder-to-shoulder, shield-by-shield, sword upon sword, battling our enemies for freedom and the greater good. That my friends is a glory worth fighting for. That my brothers is an honor worth dying for.