Capt Jeff S.358573<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>This is a slightly different topic than famous movie quotes. These are real life quotes -- things that real people [not Hollyweird actors!] said.<br /><br />What we're doing here is looking for quotes that have some kind of connection of meaning to you that you think others might identify with and vote up. <br /><br />What I'm referring to are famous military quotes, political, inspirational, satire, witty, sarcastic, etc. <br /><br />It can even be something you came up with (Don't plagiarize!) or a quote from your friends, but if it's never been in print, you need to tell the story that goes along with it. <br /><br />Enter as many times as you like. We'll let the up votes determine the overall winners, and in each general category.<br /><br />Here's an example of something sarcastic by witty:<br />"They snatched defeat from the jaws of victory!" << (That was Clemson not that long ago.)What are some of your favorite quotes: (military, inspirational, political, etc.)2014-12-06T23:42:06-05:00Capt Jeff S.358573<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>This is a slightly different topic than famous movie quotes. These are real life quotes -- things that real people [not Hollyweird actors!] said.<br /><br />What we're doing here is looking for quotes that have some kind of connection of meaning to you that you think others might identify with and vote up. <br /><br />What I'm referring to are famous military quotes, political, inspirational, satire, witty, sarcastic, etc. <br /><br />It can even be something you came up with (Don't plagiarize!) or a quote from your friends, but if it's never been in print, you need to tell the story that goes along with it. <br /><br />Enter as many times as you like. We'll let the up votes determine the overall winners, and in each general category.<br /><br />Here's an example of something sarcastic by witty:<br />"They snatched defeat from the jaws of victory!" << (That was Clemson not that long ago.)What are some of your favorite quotes: (military, inspirational, political, etc.)2014-12-06T23:42:06-05:002014-12-06T23:42:06-05:00CSM Michael J. Uhlig358594<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>My father told me one thing about serving in the military <br /><br />"If it runs, you don't fix it. If it don't run, you paint it"<br /><br />That was coming from the experience of an era of serving in the Korean War & Vietnam War.Response by CSM Michael J. Uhlig made Dec 7 at 2014 12:30 AM2014-12-07T00:30:17-05:002014-12-07T00:30:17-05:00SSG Private RallyPoint Member358607<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>My two favorites:<br /><br />"The problem with having an open mind is it leaves you closed to the truth."<br /><br />"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (Edited)Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 7 at 2014 12:48 AM2014-12-07T00:48:31-05:002014-12-07T00:48:31-05:00Capt Jeff S.358631<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>"It's a good piece of gear. Laminate it, dummy cord it, and take it to the field with you."<br /><br />Heard Maj Lamanna? (SPC, Fox Company, BOC 4-90) say it all the time at The Basic School. -- Anonymous?Response by Capt Jeff S. made Dec 7 at 2014 1:10 AM2014-12-07T01:10:40-05:002014-12-07T01:10:40-05:00LTC Stephen C.358651<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><a class="dark-link bold-link" role="profile-hover" data-qtip-container="body" data-id="196651" data-source-page-controller="question_response_contents" href="/profiles/196651-0202-marine-air-ground-task-force-magtf-intelligence-officer">Capt Jeff S.</a>, here's one for you. <br /><br />"Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet." General James Mattis, USMC retiredResponse by LTC Stephen C. made Dec 7 at 2014 1:24 AM2014-12-07T01:24:57-05:002014-12-07T01:24:57-05:00LTC Stephen C.358653<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><a class="dark-link bold-link" role="profile-hover" data-qtip-container="body" data-id="196651" data-source-page-controller="question_response_contents" href="/profiles/196651-0202-marine-air-ground-task-force-magtf-intelligence-officer">Capt Jeff S.</a>, and another.<br /><br />"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." General George Patton, United States ArmyResponse by LTC Stephen C. made Dec 7 at 2014 1:23 AM2014-12-07T01:23:29-05:002014-12-07T01:23:29-05:00LTC Stephen C.358670<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><a class="dark-link bold-link" role="profile-hover" data-qtip-container="body" data-id="196651" data-source-page-controller="question_response_contents" href="/profiles/196651-0202-marine-air-ground-task-force-magtf-intelligence-officer">Capt Jeff S.</a>, and another.<br /><br />"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny." Thomas JeffersonResponse by LTC Stephen C. made Dec 7 at 2014 1:41 AM2014-12-07T01:41:16-05:002014-12-07T01:41:16-05:00LTC Stephen C.358673<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><a class="dark-link bold-link" role="profile-hover" data-qtip-container="body" data-id="196651" data-source-page-controller="question_response_contents" href="/profiles/196651-0202-marine-air-ground-task-force-magtf-intelligence-officer">Capt Jeff S.</a>, and another.<br /><br />"The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon." George WashingtonResponse by LTC Stephen C. made Dec 7 at 2014 1:45 AM2014-12-07T01:45:28-05:002014-12-07T01:45:28-05:00Capt Jeff S.360266<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." <br /><br />- John Stuart Mill English economist & philosopher (1806 - 1873)Response by Capt Jeff S. made Dec 8 at 2014 2:27 AM2014-12-08T02:27:23-05:002014-12-08T02:27:23-05:00Capt Richard I P.360423<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>“We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.”<br /><br />― Anonymous poorly sourced attributed to ArchilochosResponse by Capt Richard I P. made Dec 8 at 2014 8:24 AM2014-12-08T08:24:35-05:002014-12-08T08:24:35-05:00PV2 Private RallyPoint Member360448<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I have some. My daddy always said two things:<br /><br />"Treat other people how you want to be treated. It doesn't matter if they are the janitor or the mayor" <br /><br />and my favorite that he said "Live life, have fun, and don't forget to laugh" <br /><br />My other favorite is a quote from Marilyn Monroe "Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are"Response by PV2 Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 8 at 2014 8:59 AM2014-12-08T08:59:07-05:002014-12-08T08:59:07-05:00SGT Richard H.360449<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>"Be the change you wish to see in the world" ~Mahatma GandhiResponse by SGT Richard H. made Dec 8 at 2014 9:05 AM2014-12-08T09:05:06-05:002014-12-08T09:05:06-05:00SFC Private RallyPoint Member360541<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>My favorite and current motivation to keep working out:<br /><br />You don't stop moving because you get old, You get old because you stop moving.Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 8 at 2014 10:29 AM2014-12-08T10:29:32-05:002014-12-08T10:29:32-05:00SSgt Private RallyPoint Member360552<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>"I have been asked what I mean by 'word of honor.' I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls--walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground--there is a possibility that in some way or another I may escape; but stand me on the floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of the circle? No. Never! I'd die first!" – Karl G. MaeserResponse by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 8 at 2014 10:38 AM2014-12-08T10:38:42-05:002014-12-08T10:38:42-05:00LTC Stephen C.360731<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><a class="dark-link bold-link" role="profile-hover" data-qtip-container="body" data-id="196651" data-source-page-controller="question_response_contents" href="/profiles/196651-0202-marine-air-ground-task-force-magtf-intelligence-officer">Capt Jeff S.</a>, here's another. "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin FranklinResponse by LTC Stephen C. made Dec 8 at 2014 12:35 PM2014-12-08T12:35:08-05:002014-12-08T12:35:08-05:00SGT Kristin Wiley360954<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>"If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains - however improbable - must be the truth." -Spock, StarTrek 2010 (also said by Sherlock Holmes in the holodeck on StarTrek Next Generation)Response by SGT Kristin Wiley made Dec 8 at 2014 3:06 PM2014-12-08T15:06:29-05:002014-12-08T15:06:29-05:00SSG (ret) William Martin392015<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Our nation's service members are her tallest walls. They live by a different standard, a higher standard, a standard in which most American citizens could not or would not want to live up to. Each and everyday they stand proud and ready to defend their nation for it is the heart and soul of the service member in which they pour into the preservation of democracy.Response by SSG (ret) William Martin made Dec 30 at 2014 12:12 AM2014-12-30T00:12:25-05:002014-12-30T00:12:25-05:00PO3 Private RallyPoint Member392389<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>"I wish to have no Connection with any Ship that does not Sail fast for I intend to go in harm's way."<br /><br />Captain John Paul Jones<br />16 November 1778<br /><br />"Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!"<br /><br />Lieutenant Howell Maurice Forgy USN (ChC) <br />7 December 1941<br /><br />"I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.'"<br /><br />President John Fitzgerald Kennedy <br />1 August 1963<br /><br />"Between the idea<br />And the reality<br />Between the motion<br />And the act<br />Falls the Shadow"<br /><br />An Excerpt from "The Hollow Men"<br />T.S. Elliot<br />1925<br /><br />And finally my own personal favorite;<br /><br />"Yes, makin' mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep<br />Is cheaper than them uniforms, an' they're starvation cheap;<br />An' hustlin' drunken soldiers when they're goin' large a bit<br />Is five times better business than paradin' in full kit.<br />Then it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, 'ow's yer soul?"<br />But it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll,<br />The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll,<br />O it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll."<br /><br />Excerpt from "Tommy" <br />Rudyard Kipling<br />1892Response by PO3 Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 30 at 2014 9:49 AM2014-12-30T09:49:39-05:002014-12-30T09:49:39-05:001SG Michael Blount569788<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Just saw a great quote attributed to The Hon. Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.<br /><br />"Congressmen are like diapers. Both need to be changed often and for the same reason"<br /><br />PricelessResponse by 1SG Michael Blount made Apr 3 at 2015 1:47 PM2015-04-03T13:47:16-04:002015-04-03T13:47:16-04:001SG Michael Blount569796<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>A quote attributed to MajGen Chesty Puller:<br /><br />"We've been looking for the enemy for some time now. We've finally found him. We're surrounded. That simplifies things"<br /><br />Words to live by.Response by 1SG Michael Blount made Apr 3 at 2015 1:51 PM2015-04-03T13:51:02-04:002015-04-03T13:51:02-04:00TSgt John Dias569813<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism..." Teddy Roosevelt<br /><br />"Any man who carries a hyphen about with him carries a dagger that he is ready to plunge into the vitals of this Republic whenever he gets ready." - Woodrow WilsonResponse by TSgt John Dias made Apr 3 at 2015 1:59 PM2015-04-03T13:59:17-04:002015-04-03T13:59:17-04:00LTC Gavin Heater569826<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>One of my favorite quotes attributed to deceased former Philippines President for Life Ferdinand Marcos is: "Do not confuse the truth with the facts."Response by LTC Gavin Heater made Apr 3 at 2015 2:04 PM2015-04-03T14:04:35-04:002015-04-03T14:04:35-04:00SSG Leonard Johnson569913<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>ahem..... One of my more favorites from the 80s:<br />the mission of the United States Army is to kill as many godless, communists, socialists, along with their inhumane cohort battalions. And to restore cave dwelling as the only accepted and meaningful way of life in the former communistic region :)Response by SSG Leonard Johnson made Apr 3 at 2015 2:37 PM2015-04-03T14:37:59-04:002015-04-03T14:37:59-04:00LCDR Private RallyPoint Member569950<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>One of my favorite quotes of all time comes from the Sword of Truth book series. The main character, explaining his actions, says, "You can never stop all wrongdoing, but if you don't punish it, it proliferates until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding."Response by LCDR Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 3 at 2015 2:51 PM2015-04-03T14:51:28-04:002015-04-03T14:51:28-04:00MAJ Terry LaFrance569956<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>"That guy's fucked up as a football bat, he ain't seen the ball since kick off." said by a missile maint tech (SGT) who's name I forgot long ago at NTC when I was a PL.Response by MAJ Terry LaFrance made Apr 3 at 2015 2:53 PM2015-04-03T14:53:20-04:002015-04-03T14:53:20-04:00MAJ Terry LaFrance569968<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>You take care of your people and they'll take care of you. Of course sometimes that means putting a boot in someone's ass. - Me.Response by MAJ Terry LaFrance made Apr 3 at 2015 2:55 PM2015-04-03T14:55:57-04:002015-04-03T14:55:57-04:00MAJ Terry LaFrance569996<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf- attributed to George Orwell, turns out not. Still a great line.<br /><br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/07/rough-men/">http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/07/rough-men/</a> <div class="pta-link-card answers-template-image type-default">
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Response by MAJ Terry LaFrance made Apr 3 at 2015 3:06 PM2015-04-03T15:06:25-04:002015-04-03T15:06:25-04:00MAJ Terry LaFrance570347<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>"Wile E. Coyote, super genius." Mel Blanc. I used that one all the time. <br /><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIPr23xyoZg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIPr23xyoZg</a>Response by MAJ Terry LaFrance made Apr 3 at 2015 6:50 PM2015-04-03T18:50:19-04:002015-04-03T18:50:19-04:00MAJ Terry LaFrance570354<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>"And gentlemen, now abed in England, will hold their manhoods cheap, when any speaks who fought with us on Saint Crispin's day. "<br /><br />"For he who sheds his blood with me, shall be my brother. "Response by MAJ Terry LaFrance made Apr 3 at 2015 6:54 PM2015-04-03T18:54:01-04:002015-04-03T18:54:01-04:00CPT Bruce Rodgers570685<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>"My hypocrisy only goes so far" Doc Holiday in the movie TombstoneResponse by CPT Bruce Rodgers made Apr 3 at 2015 9:50 PM2015-04-03T21:50:03-04:002015-04-03T21:50:03-04:00PO1 John Miller570970<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>“I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.”Response by PO1 John Miller made Apr 4 at 2015 4:24 AM2015-04-04T04:24:46-04:002015-04-04T04:24:46-04:00GySgt Wayne A. Ekblad571242<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><a target="_blank" href="http://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/mind-and-soul/39-powerful-quotes-that-will-change-the-way-you-live-and-think/ss-AAahzH5#image=10">http://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/mind-and-soul/39-powerful-quotes-that-will-change-the-way-you-live-and-think/ss-AAahzH5#image=10</a> <div class="pta-link-card answers-template-image type-default">
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<a class="fancybox" rel="67c87a5824318977c3682d1d9e14955c" href="https://d1ndsj6b8hkqu9.cloudfront.net/pictures/images/000/032/444/for_gallery_v2/RonaldReaganQuoteL.jpg"><img src="https://d1ndsj6b8hkqu9.cloudfront.net/pictures/images/000/032/444/large_v3/RonaldReaganQuoteL.jpg" alt="Ronaldreaganquotel" /></a></div></div>Response by GySgt Wayne A. Ekblad made Apr 4 at 2015 11:06 AM2015-04-04T11:06:40-04:002015-04-04T11:06:40-04:00SSgt Private RallyPoint Member571252<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>"I have been asked what I mean by 'word of honor.' I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls—walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground—there is a possibility that in some way or another I might be able to escape; but stand me on the floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No, never! I’d die first.” - Karl G. MaeserResponse by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 4 at 2015 11:18 AM2015-04-04T11:18:29-04:002015-04-04T11:18:29-04:00SFC Michael Jackson, MBA571373<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.” Gen. James Mattis or "Maddog Mattis"Response by SFC Michael Jackson, MBA made Apr 4 at 2015 12:46 PM2015-04-04T12:46:48-04:002015-04-04T12:46:48-04:00SPC Margaret Lillard571383<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>My Drill Sergeant said I was tougher than woodpecker lips.Response by SPC Margaret Lillard made Apr 4 at 2015 12:49 PM2015-04-04T12:49:47-04:002015-04-04T12:49:47-04:00PO3 Levi Torres571419<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>"Be a man of principle. Fight for what you believe in. Keep your word. Live with integrity. Be brave. Believe in something bigger than yourself. Serve your country. Teach. Mentor. Give something back to society. Lead from the front. Conquer your fears. Be a good friend. Be humble and be self-confident. Appreciate your friends and family. Be a leader and not a follower. Be valorous on the field of battle. And take responsibility for your actions. Never forget those that were killed. And never let rest those that killed them." <br /><br />- Major Douglas Alexander Zembiec (April 14, 1973 - May 11, 2007) The Lion of FallujahResponse by PO3 Levi Torres made Apr 4 at 2015 1:03 PM2015-04-04T13:03:08-04:002015-04-04T13:03:08-04:00SSG Private RallyPoint Member571741<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>“A man is most accurately judged by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or to reciprocate.”<br />— Paul Eldridge (1888-1982) American educator, novelist, poetResponse by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 4 at 2015 5:13 PM2015-04-04T17:13:59-04:002015-04-04T17:13:59-04:00MAJ Terry LaFrance572029<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Well that's gonna go over like a pregnant pole vaulter- my dad<br /><br />There's nothing between here and the North Pole but a barbed wire fence, and that sonuvabitch is down- my grandfather commenting on the wind in Oklahoma.Response by MAJ Terry LaFrance made Apr 4 at 2015 8:27 PM2015-04-04T20:27:39-04:002015-04-04T20:27:39-04:00PO3 Jonathan Cooper572084<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." - Mark Twain <br /> <br />Got me through Moldova, Boot Camp and up to now.Response by PO3 Jonathan Cooper made Apr 4 at 2015 9:18 PM2015-04-04T21:18:24-04:002015-04-04T21:18:24-04:00MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca572756<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>"You don't have to like it, you just have to do it" - Dick Marcinko<br /><br />Quoted by me prior to every APFT!Response by MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca made Apr 5 at 2015 10:10 AM2015-04-05T10:10:47-04:002015-04-05T10:10:47-04:00CAPT Kevin B.572757<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>You want it bad, you get it bad. The worse you want it, the worse you get it.<br /><br />Those who live by the sword eventually fall on it.<br /><br />It's like Football. Three things can happen and two of them are bad.<br /><br />--------------------<br /><br />I can't remember where I first heard these but they've stuck around in my vocabulary.Response by CAPT Kevin B. made Apr 5 at 2015 10:11 AM2015-04-05T10:11:39-04:002015-04-05T10:11:39-04:00Lt Col Jim Coe572952<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>The guy you don't see will kill you.<br />--Brig Gen Robin Olds<br /><br />I'm a General, not a specific. Then-Maj Gen Walt Kross responding to my request for additional information on requirements he asked me to analyze <br /><br />Put airplanes into Pope until they choke. Attributed to Gen H T Johnson giving direction to the MAC director of ops after the Army FORSCOM Commander complained there wasn't enough airlift during Desert shield<br /><br />Any staff action that takes longer than four to six weeks probably isn't worth the effort.<br />--Gen H T Johnson CINCTRANSResponse by Lt Col Jim Coe made Apr 5 at 2015 1:14 PM2015-04-05T13:14:21-04:002015-04-05T13:14:21-04:00SGT Richard H.1820244<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>"The Standard you walk past is the standard you accept." <br />~LTG David Morrison, Australian Chief of ArmyResponse by SGT Richard H. made Aug 19 at 2016 3:41 PM2016-08-19T15:41:51-04:002016-08-19T15:41:51-04:00SGT Richard H.1820248<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>“Don't mistake my kindness for weakness. 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