Chuck Norris Quotes

The best defense is not to offend.

If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen.

There are few problems in this world that cannot be solved by a swift roundhouse kick to the face. In fact, there are none.

It's amazing because people come up to me and say, 'Chuck, you're the luckiest guy in the world to be a world karate champion and a movie and TV star.' When they say this to me, I kind of smile because luck had nothing to do with it; God had everything to do with it.

when the boogie man goes to sleep he checks his closet for me

The attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is a prime example. Even though Obama KNEW - from the moment of the assault - that it was a TERRORIST attack, he didn't let the American people know.

Well, I grew up as a democrat.

Good morals lead to good laws.

While I filmed the 'Walker, Texas Ranger' series for eight and a half years, I had never had much time to read, except for screenplays of the episodes.

If I had said, "I don't stand a chance," one thing is clear: I wouldn't have.

When I got into the film world, I got sucked into the secular aspect of the entertainment field and I really drifted away from my faith. Its amazing...as successful as I was as an actor, and the money and the fame, there was still something missing.

There is no finish line. When you reach one goal, find a new one.

Anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way

In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.

Use God's mighty weapons, not those made by men, to knock down the devil's strongholds.

Run while you still have the chance.

If some thug breaks into my home I can use my roundhouse kick, but I prefer he look down the barrel of my gun.

Unfortunately, people are re-interpreting the Constitution as a living document, and it's not. It's a solid-based document and it shouldn't be played with.

Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

I haven't always been warmly welcomed for holding my conservative positions in Hollywood. Then again, I've never been very good at being politically correct either, on or off screen. So why start now?

If you come back in here, I'm gonna hit you with so many rights, you're gonna beg for a left.

I definitely feel I do have God in my corner.

My acting is atrocious, to say the least. But I've found that it's not acting that people are concerned about, it's your presence.

I'm very grateful for every thing I have. You know when you start losing that then you start losing what life's all about.

People study martial arts for many reasons, sometimes all the wrong reasons. For example, I have had potential students come to my dojo with a belligerent and cocky attitude. When I ask why they want to study my art, their response has indicated to me that their goal is to learn to fight, which is the antithesis of the philosophy I hope to instill: I want them to know how to defend themselves if necessary, but to avoid fighting whenever possible because they will have nothing to prove by fighting.

People have a hard time believing that, but not having a father around, being shy, I just never participated in sports much.

The 3 key components for success are as follows: Psychological Preparedness Physical Conditioning Mental Toughness

The only time you lose at something is when you don't learn from that experience.

If your soul needs healing, the prescription you need is not Chuck Norris' tears, it's Jesus' blood.

No one's perfect. And we've all made our mistakes and you just have to live with them and try to not make them again.

I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.

When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!

I gave my life to the Lord at 12. I was baptized at 12.

Focus on what it is that you want, set a realistic goal. Start setting goals that you feel you can accomplish. Don't try to go right to the top in one leap. Every time you accomplish a goal you develop the strength and wisdom to accomplish the next one.

You are not what has happened to you. You are what you choose to become.

Violence is my last option.

One of my life's principles is to develop myself to the maximum of my potential in all ways and to help others do the same.

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.

When I have the beard on I have people behind me in traffic honking their horn. I'm thinking "how in the world?" But it's the beard - it's kind of the stand out thing.

A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.

Life is very fragile and you never know when it is over. Only one instance and then it might be too late to accept Gods offer for forgiveness.

Always remember that your success begins inside you: If you can't see it first, no one else ever will.

The fact is that everyone has ki, which is really little more than a technique of visualization allowing one to utilize the internal energy that we all have and letting it flow through the body.

My whole goal in my film career is to project a positive image on the screen, that I hope people will enjoy watching.

T.E.A.M. = Together Everyone Achieves More.

I hope I don't get a roundhouse kick from Chuck Norris.