32 Quotes by Jonny Kim

If I could talk to my younger self, I would just say that the path to great things is filled with a lot of stumbles, suffering, and challenges along the way. But if you have the right attitude and know that hard times will pass - and you get up each time - you will reach your destination.

Ego is probably one of the biggest poisons we can have - it's toxic to any environment.

I was told that with the right attitude, and with enough hard work, if you get up after every time you fail, you can amount to something and you can do positive work. You can leave a positive mark for our world, and that's what I aim to do.

Success to me means serving a calling higher than yourself that improves the lives of everyone and is done completely in the name of service.

Controlled aggression, to me, is one of the most important traits to have. To have that social intelligence to know when to exert aggression in the military environment, and when to stay calm, cool, and collected.

I applied to zero colleges.

I think living with humility, and serving with humility, is one of the most important things humans can do.

You're going to learn a lot every time you fail. So embrace that.

A lot of those soft skills - working with groups of people who I've never met before to accomplish a mission, adapting to personality types - those are skills I've learned outside the SEAL time.