170 Quotes by Eric Greitens

I first started doing service, actually, as a kid, doing service projects. Later in college, I started doing international humanitarian work that brought me to places like Bosnia, Rwanda.

Resilience is distinct from mere survival, and more than mere endurance. Resilience is often endurance with direction.

It's only in the act of pushing yourself, challenging yourself to make a contribution to your community, to your family, to your country, that you actually realize your full self, you know?

Everyone needs resilience. It's a virtue essential to growth and essential to happiness.

It's really important to have role models, and a lot of the ancients always talked about this. Seneca talked about this, Aristotle talked about this, and in fact, this was my boxing coach's philosophy in college, was that you have to have role models.

I did a lot of humanitarian work before I joined the military.

People know if you care about them. How do you show people that you care? By caring for them. By putting their needs first. By sacrificing for them. By serving them. Do that, and you'll build a great team.

I believe that you have to live a life that involves both courage and compassion.

Children who know that they have something to offer others will learn that they can shape the world around them for the better.