Maria Montessori Quotes

I have been a soldier and a commander for many years and know how to differentiate between things - not to be busy all the time with the most sensitive matters and to give everything its due attention without having the issues that cause concern to constantly be troubling or worrisome.

If I stop to kick every barking dog I am not going to get where I'm going.

Stand your ground means stand your ground. It doesn't mean chase after somebody who's turned their back.

The formation is not the most important thing.

One of my strongest assets is my ability to be calm under pressure.

I've always been able to stay calm in high-pressure situations.

Life is a hailstorm of distractions. It's not the monster that stops us but the mosquito.

Sometimes on the journey, you step in dog poop. But you don't let the whole journey be about the fact that your shoe got poop on it.

If you run away from trouble, it always follows.

We must meet the challenge rather than wish it were not before us.

I'll always try to go the safest route, but once someone strikes you or puts their hands on you then it's on, at least for me.

One day as a young man, I was walking down the streets. And a group of Zulu guys was walking behind me closing in on me. And I could hear them talking to one another about how they were going to mug me. (Speaking Zulu). Let's get this white guy. You go to his left, and I'll come up behind him. I didn't know what to do. I couldn't run.So I just spun around real quick and said (speaking Zulu). Yo, guys, why don't we just mug someone together? I'm ready.

Evaluate. Long experience had taught me to evaluate and assess. When the unexpected gets dumped on you, don’t waste time. Don’t figure out how or why it happened. Don’t recriminate. Don’t figure out whose fault it is. Don’t work out how to avoid the same mistake next time. All of that you do later. If you survive.

Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?

It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.

A lot of people in their mind think ‘If there is a problem this is what I would do, this is how I would do it.’ But the truth is they don’t really know. Parkour teaches you to be sure of what you are able to do.

The more we run from a problem, the more we're actually running into it.

I'm not a gangster, I'm not a thug.. I'm just me and if I feel like someone is trying to hurt me.. yeah I'm gonna hurt 'em.. if you come and you ain't coming right I'm gonna blow your head off.

Daddy gave me real useful information to protect me in the real world. If anyone hits me, I'm not to hit them back. I wait until their back is turned, then hit them in the head with a brick.

Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.

My last fight was more than 20 years ago. I'm not a fighter, I'm a lover. If somebody's going to speak bad about me, I will walk away. But if a guy like Steven Seagal slaps me once, I will slap him twice as hard. Life is full of violence.

Hating clouds the mind. It gets in the way of strategy. Leaders cannot afford to hate

Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.

Better to face the bear than run from it.

I don't have a belief problem, I have a focusing weakness. I focus on what's loudest instead of what feels best.