Paul Watson Quotes

There is a lot of basketball beyond our control, but a player should never let anyone try harder than he does

I always check my harness before I do a stunt; I test-drive the cars I have to race or explode; I'm present at all pyrotechnical rehearsals; and I walk through everything step-by-step. No man should put their life in someone else's hands unless they have covered their own safety from all angles.

As long as I know that I give my best every time, I can sleep well knowing that.

A hole is only as big as you dig it.

We must learn this rule, which is true alike of rich and poor — that no man and no class of men ever rise to any permanent improvement in their condition of body or of mind except by relying upon their own personal efforts. The wealth with which the rich man is surrounded is constantly tempting him to forget the truth, ad you see in family after family men degenerating from the position of their fathers because they live sluggishly and enjoy what has been placed before them without appealing to their own exertions. The poor man, especially in these days, may have a similar temptation offered to him by legislation, but this same inexorable rule will work.

The Protect America's Schools Act is not the only answer, but it is a positive step forward in preventing tragedies.

You can never control injuries. Accidents happen; that's just how things go.

Focus on things you can control. Things that are out of control, you can't worry about what the result is going to be, you just focus on trying to do the best in your situation that you can.

The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.

People are capable of seeing the deceit they're ensnared in. They just have to make the effort.

To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the time demands social adjustment, is utterly to fail to apprehend the situation.

Without your own effort it is impossible for blessings to come.

The pursuit of holiness is a joint venture between God and the Christian. No one can attain any degree of holiness without God working in his life, but just as surely no one will attain it without effort on his own part.

It is so often on the name of a misdeed that a life goes to pieces, not the nameless and personal action itself, which was perhaps a perfectly definite necessity of that life and would have been absorbed by it without effort.

When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.

Pray like it all depends on God, but work like it all depends on you.

Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.

If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will.

You cannot take credit for your talents. It is what you do with them that counts.

Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased.

However, I continue to try and I continue, indefatigably, to reach out. There's no way I can single-handedly save the world or, perhaps, even make a perceptible difference - but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more effort.

I don't believe in talent. Talent doesn't exist.

I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the order of others'. If, in the chaos of the motives that have made you listen to the radio tonight, there was an honest, rational desire to learn what is wrong with the world, you are the man whom I wished to address. By the rules and terms of my code, one owes a rational statement to those whom it does concern and who are making an effort to know. Those who are making an effort to fail to understand me, are not a concern of mine.