Nick Yarris Quotes

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin.

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

Don’t nurture a sense of guilt; rather, nurture a sense of responsibility married with a sense of humility.

Our task is to become our best selves. One of God's greatest gifts to us is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever need be final.

Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, ... Your life will never be the same again.

The gifts we are given in life require the best of us, not merely our best intentions.

MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN’T SAVE—Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them.

Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

Humor is hope's companion in arms. It is not brash, it is not cheap, it is not heartless. Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit.

Would rather learn from failures I'm proud of than take pride in success I don't believe in.

We always get rejections, whether it's in love or anything in life. And then negativity tends to creep in. But hopefully we are honest towards the people around us so that we can conquer it.

I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER

Without such inspiration, we would rapidly deteriorate and finally perish.

More dreams are destroyed in bed than are ever found there.

If you could do better, should you?

I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.

I think that I failed by not studying more, and praying more, and spending more time with my family.

I'm pretty good at taking accountability now, and I never did anything to deserve that. It was a really lousy thing for her to do.

By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger

Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode amounts to a crash and burn, there is always another episode awaiting us and then another. There are always more opportunities to get it right, to fashion our lives in the ways we deserve to have them. Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success.

I should have been much more responsible in how I handled myself and for that am sorry.

It's a very selfish time. When I'm here at home, my responsibilities are far greater. I'm forced to be way more selfless. My priorities are so far down the list that it's hard to see them. And yet, when I'm on tour, I basically have to get the show right, every night, but the days are really constructed around selfish activities for self-improvement, or not. That's where I feel guilty because I know that life is going on full-speed when I'm not around.