The Spartan Way Quotes

“They say a healthy person has a thousand wishes but a sick person has only one wish—to get well.”
― Joe De Sena, The Spartan Way: Eat Better. Train Better. Think Better. Be Better.

“With a determined sense of responsibility, I pledge these statements: I will follow my True North, I will commit to what is important, I will be ambitious and motivated in all that I do, I will value my time, I will make all my decisions by examining the upside and downside, I will delay gratification, I will grit it out, I will shift my frame of reference, I will live each day honoring my journey to live the Spartan Way.”
― Joe De Sena, The Spartan Way: Eat Better. Train Better. Think Better. Be Better.

“My father hugged me and told me, ‘In the history of man, there has never been justice in the world, and there will never ever be. But what you and I can do is to help reduce other people’s suffering and not add to it.”
― Joe De Sena, The Spartan Way: Eat Better. Train Better. Think Better. Be Better.

“We want to believe that Mark Spitz was born to swim in a way that none of us were and that none of us could,” she says. “We don’t want to sit on the pool deck and watch him progress from amateur to expert. We prefer our excellence fully formed. We prefer mystery to mundanity.”
― Joe De Sena, The Spartan Way: Eat Better. Train Better. Think Better. Be Better.

“Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance”
― Joe De Sena, The Spartan Way: Eat Better. Train Better. Think Better. Be Better.

“Don’t allow your dedication to weaken either. Get rid of distractions. Focus on what’s important, and learn to say “no” to anything that pulls you from the path of your commitments.”
― Joe De Sena, The Spartan Way: Eat Better. Train Better. Think Better. Be Better.

“Commitment requires complete honesty. It means that you will do what you said you were going to do, even when you don’t feel like doing it. Anything less is pointless. There’s no “maybe” in commitment.”
― Joe De Sena, The Spartan Way: Eat Better. Train Better. Think Better. Be Better.

“the main difference between an amateur and a pro is their “depth of commitment. The amateur’s commitment is shallow. The professional’s is deep.”
― Joe De Sena, The Spartan Way: Eat Better. Train Better. Think Better. Be Better.

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”
― Joe De Sena, The Spartan Way: Eat Better. Train Better. Think Better. Be Better.

“People spend 46.9 percent of their waking hours thinking about something other than what they’re doing. In other words: mind-wandering. Imagine that. Half of our lives are spent spacing out. That is the human brain’s default mode of operation. The problem is, Killingsworth and Gilbert say, “A wandering mind is an unhappy mind.”
― Joe De Sena, The Spartan Way: Eat Better. Train Better. Think Better. Be Better.

“Adversity is around every corner. You can’t escape it. How you handle that adversity is how you build your legacy.”
― Joe De Sena, The Spartan Way: Eat Better. Train Better. Think Better. Be Better.

“Albert Einstein said that adversity introduces men or women to themselves.”
― Joe De Sena, The Spartan Way: Eat Better. Train Better. Think Better. Be Better.