Raising Men Quotes

“I can’t do that becomes I haven’t yet learned that.”
― Eric Davis, Raising Men: Lessons Navy SEALs Learned from Their Training and Taught to Their Sons

“to overcome?   Are you in the constant practice of learning new things and remaining someone worth learning from?   Are you as happy and healthy as you want your son to be?   Does permission to live a good life so that you can lead your son to do the same inspire or scare you? Why?”
― Eric Davis, Raising Men: Lessons Navy SEALs Learned from Their Training and Taught to Their Sons

“when you’re committed more to being right than you are to being effective, that mindset has the potential to kill you”
― Eric Davis, Raising Men: Lessons Navy SEALs Learned from Their Training and Taught to Their Sons

“In order to lead, you must continue to learn. A big reason kids think they know it all and their parents are wrong is that kids are studying and growing every day and most parents have been out of the growth game since they left school. As time goes on, children begin to know more than their parents, and that infamous I know everything attitude begins to form in our teenage and adult sons. For example, if Dad no longer hunts, it’ll only be a matter of time before his hunting son stops listening to him about how to hunt. The son views his father as trying to impart wisdom that he is no longer qualified to impart, and as he gets older he begins to intuit the hypocrisy, and respect is lost.”
― Eric Davis, Raising Men: Lessons Navy SEALs Learned from Their Training and Taught to Their Sons

“The only easy day was yesterday.”
― Eric Davis, Raising Men: Lessons Navy SEALs Learned from Their Training and Taught to Their Sons

“Winning is when you keep going after a setback.”
― Eric Davis, Raising Men: Lessons Navy SEALs Learned from Their Training and Taught to Their Sons

“It’s like people reach a certain age or stage of their lives when they’ve already tried a bunch of things, and they feel as if their adventuresome spirit has ended. They stop trying new things. I’m too old. I’m too out of shape. I’ve already failed so many times. You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. The thing is, if that dog had never stopped learning, never stopped winning new skills and capacities, never stopped participating, it would have never turned into an old dog in the first place.”
― Eric Davis, Raising Men: Lessons Navy SEALs Learned from Their Training and Taught to Their Sons

“You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. The thing is, if that dog had never stopped learning, never stopped winning new skills and capacities, never stopped participating, it would have never turned into an old dog in the first place.”
― Eric Davis, Raising Men: Lessons Navy SEALs Learned from Their Training and Taught to Their Sons

“Our busy, jammed-packed lives—plus the constant interruption of phone calls, text messages, and other virtual notifications—pull us out of our flow and toss us into the strong currents of our life’s swim. Our minds can’t be used as the powerful tools that they are if they’re taken out of the game and sidelined.”
― Eric Davis, Raising Men: Lessons Navy SEALs Learned from Their Training and Taught to Their Sons

“Since 2008, I’ve been repurposing that knowledge for high-performing individuals and businesses, and I have found that in both cases, those who “make it” share this in common: not just the ability to endure pain, but the ability to not even feel it.”
― Eric Davis, Raising Men: Lessons Navy SEALs Learned from Their Training and Taught to Their Sons