Chuck Norris quotes

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

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.
- Chuck Norris

When the boogie man goes to sleep he checks his closet for me.
- Chuck Norris

A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.
- Chuck Norris

My mother lived through the Great Depression. Her family of 11 children pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and moved to wherever there was work at the time. And in rural Oklahoma, that wasn't easy to find.
- Chuck Norris

In 'Expendables 2,' there was a lot of vulgar dialogue in the screenplay. For this reason, many young people wouldn't be able to watch this. But I don't play in movies like this. Due to that, I said, 'I won't be a part of that if the hardcore language is not erased.
- Chuck Norris

I don't initiate violence, I retaliate.
- Chuck Norris

Violence is my last option.
- Chuck Norris

Unfortunately, in the entertainment field, sometimes you start believing your celebrity. You have a strong tendency to drift from the Lord, which I did. I did drift for a number of years.
- Chuck Norris

It's important to remember that because these athletes exercise so beyond what even a normal active person would, they generally must also supplement their diet.
- Chuck Norris

Anytime you get action legends together, it has to be a classic.
- Chuck Norris

It's the bullies who are afraid, are the ones that do all the fighting. It's not the secure kids that get out there and fight. It's the insecure kids.
- Chuck Norris

Armed Forces Day on May 21, and the Memorial Day weekend that follows, is a time to honor, remember and recognize those who serve and have served our country, as well as those who have died in service. As we reflect, let's not forget the many sacrifices made at home as well in support of our men and women in uniform.
- Chuck Norris

Ads sway kids' preferences. Star athletes spokespeople sway kids' preference.
- Chuck Norris

Good morals lead to good laws.
- Chuck Norris

Getting into a sleep routine before the first week of school will aid in easing the shock of waking up early.
- Chuck Norris

There's a lot to be done; I just see a total moral decay in our society.
- Chuck Norris

In 1968, I fought and won the world middleweight karate championship by defeating the world's top fighters. I then held that title until 1974, when I retired undefeated.
- Chuck Norris

Let's face it: so much of what we consume is not driven by knowledge but by basic craving and impulse. The process of what we eat starts in our heads. And no one is more in our heads than a food industry that spends billions of dollars in marketing its message in every means possible.
- Chuck Norris

The final line in the Second Amendment says, 'The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.' That means not by the president, not by Congress.
- Chuck Norris

Whether we are famous or not, we all need God. We also need other people.
- Chuck Norris

The Apostle Paul did what he had to do to spread the message of God. I realize that that is what I have to do; I have to bite the bullet and overcome my shyness.
- Chuck Norris

We either go one direction, left, which would be socialism. Or right, which would be people trying to make the money themselves.
- Chuck Norris

If the government decides to become a tyrannical government, our guns are to protect us against that.
- Chuck Norris

I'm a people's actor, not a critics' actor, and I always have been.
- Chuck Norris