Top 60 Chuck Norris Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The only time we fail is when we stop trying.”

— Chuck Norris

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

— Chuck Norris

3. “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.”

— Chuck Norris

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

— Chuck Norris

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

— Chuck Norris

6. “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

7. “Run while you still have the chance.”

— Chuck Norris

8. “You are not what has happened to you. You are what you choose to become.”

— Chuck Norris

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

— Chuck Norris

10. “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

11. “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.”

— Chuck Norris

12. “Good morals lead to good laws.”

— Chuck Norris

13. “Running from your fear can be more painful than facing it, for better or worse.”

— Chuck Norris

14. “We’re all human beings. And we all have our prejudices and so forth, but the thing is, let’s be tolerant with each other. And if we could do that, there would be a lot more peace in our world today.”

— Chuck Norris

15. “If I had said, “I don’t stand a chance,” one thing is clear: I wouldn’t have.”

— Chuck Norris

16. “I don’t initiate violence, I retaliate.”

— Chuck Norris

17. “Karate is the best thing you can do for your child.”

— Chuck Norris

18. “Use God’s mighty weapons, not those made by men, to knock down the devil’s strongholds.”

— Chuck Norris

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

— Chuck Norris

20. “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.”

— Chuck Norris

21. “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.”

— Chuck Norris

22. “Anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way.”

— Chuck Norris

23. “The only time you lose at something is when you don’t learn from that experience.”

— Chuck Norris

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

— Chuck Norris

25. “The best defense is not to offend.”

— Chuck Norris

26. “Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I’ve ever seen.”

— Chuck Norris

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

— Chuck Norris

28. “Chuck Norris knows the last digit of PI.”

— Chuck Norris

29. “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.”

— Chuck Norris

30. “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.”

— Chuck Norris

31. “People whine, ‘I haven’t succeeded because I haven’t had the breaks.’ You create your own breaks.”

— Chuck Norris

32. “I definitely feel I do have God in my corner.”

— Chuck Norris

33. “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.”

— Chuck Norris

34. “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.”

— Chuck Norris

35. “I think setting a goal, getting a visual image of what it is you want. You’ve got to see what it is you want to achieve before you can pursue it.”

— Chuck Norris

36. “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.”

— Chuck Norris

37. “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...”

— Chuck Norris

38. “Sometimes the things we want most are the hardest to get. That means you need to be even more determined to succeed. That’s what it takes to be a winner. You have to want it bad enough to stick with it no matter how tough things get.”

— Chuck Norris

39. “Violence is my last option.”

— Chuck Norris

40. “I have a lot of guns on my ranch. I don’t use them for hunting. I’m not a hunter. It’s for protection. The Second Amendment was designed for tyranny.”

— Chuck Norris

41. “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.”

— Chuck Norris

42. “Where’s Barack Obama when Christmas references are being erased from civic calendars? Is he crying out in defense of religious liberty and our First Amendment? Nope. He’s as silent as a church mouse. And animosity toward religion continues to grow.”

— Chuck Norris

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

— Chuck Norris

44. “I hope I don’t get a roundhouse kick from Chuck Norris.”

— Chuck Norris

45. “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.”

— Chuck Norris

46. “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.”

— Chuck Norris

47. “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.”

— Chuck Norris

48. “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.”

— Chuck Norris

49. “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!”

— Chuck Norris

50. “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?”

— Chuck Norris