What is the most inspirational quote for you?

LTC Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 17:00:45 -0400

What quote just drives you and inspires you? Share so that we may also be inspired.

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 17 at 2014 5:09 PM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 17:09:02 -0400

"If you're going through hell keep going." -Winston Churchill
and
"Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground"- Teddy Roosevelt

Response by SGT Richard H. made Oct 17 at 2014 5:24 PM

SGT Richard H. — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 17:24:56 -0400

"Be the change you wish to see"

Response by 1SG Steven Stankovich made Oct 17 at 2014 5:26 PM

1SG Steven Stankovich — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 17:26:39 -0400

"Do the right thing all the time and you'll never have to worry about who is looking over your shoulder." ~ CSM(R) Christopher Taylor

Response by MAJ Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 17 at 2014 5:27 PM

MAJ Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 17:27:11 -0400

One team. One fight.

I've lived by that for years.

Response by SPC James Mcneil made Oct 17 at 2014 5:33 PM

SPC James Mcneil — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 17:33:30 -0400

Be driven by your vision or you'll be taken for a ride in someone else's.
Craig Valentine

Response by PFC Zanie Young made Oct 17 at 2014 5:43 PM

PFC Zanie Young — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 17:43:03 -0400

It there's a will, there's a way. IDK who said that, but I always lived by that.

Response by MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca made Oct 17 at 2014 8:26 PM

MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 20:26:10 -0400

"As you learn to grow, grow to learn"

"All the world's indeed a stage, and we are merely players, performers and portrayers. Each another's audience, outside the gilded cage."

"Live to fight another day"

Response by CW3 Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 17 at 2014 8:38 PM

CW3 Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 20:38:45 -0400

The cowards never started and the weak quit along the way....this leaves us

Response by COL Vincent Stoneking made Oct 17 at 2014 8:55 PM

COL Vincent Stoneking — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 20:55:40 -0400

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~Aristotle

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. ~Aristotle

The truth doesn't care what I think.

Paul Revere was a tattle-tale.

Response by PO1 Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 17 at 2014 9:41 PM

PO1 Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 21:41:55 -0400

"Those who aspire to greatness must also suffer greatly" - Plutarch

Response by SCPO Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 17 at 2014 9:49 PM

SCPO Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 21:49:14 -0400

"There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with"

Admiral William "Bull" Halsey

"We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender"

Sir Winston Churchill

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 17 at 2014 11:19 PM

SSG Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:19:08 -0400

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

George Santayana, "The Life of Reason", 1905

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 17 at 2014 11:33 PM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:33:55 -0400

not sure where this originated from but:

"If you believe you can do it and if you believe you can't do it.... you're right"

Response by PV2 Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 17 at 2014 11:51 PM

PV2 Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:51:40 -0400

My Kickboxing and Muay Thai Coach has a saying
"There's no substitute for hard work."

He even has it on the wall of the gym.

Response by PO2 Rocky Kleeger made Oct 18 at 2014 1:11 AM

PO2 Rocky Kleeger — Sat, 18 Oct 2014 01:11:54 -0400

It is the soldier, above all others, that prays for peace. For it is he that must bear the wounds and scars of war - Douglas MacArthur

Response by MSG Brian Allen made Oct 18 at 2014 2:19 AM

MSG Brian Allen — Sat, 18 Oct 2014 02:19:32 -0400

Two - ..

"I will not tiptoe through life to arrive safely at death". I keep this quote in mind when I need to step up and do the right thing regardless of the repercussions.

and

“Weapons are an important factor in war but not the deciding one, it is Man
not the materials that count.”

The old saying goes, and I think most of the NCOs have heard it, "My two basic responsibilities will always be uppermost in my mind—accomplishment of my mission and the welfare of my Soldiers.".

.....Well, there would be no mission without your Soldiers.

Response by PO3 Shaun Taylor made Oct 18 at 2014 3:10 AM

PO3 Shaun Taylor — Sat, 18 Oct 2014 03:10:41 -0400

It's nice to be important, but it's far more important to be nice.

Response by TSgt Kristin Parsons made Jan 7 at 2015 7:28 PM

TSgt Kristin Parsons — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 19:28:40 -0500

This one is especially true because of the state that this world has become:

"There is only one way to avoid criticism; do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."
-Aristotle

Response by CW5 Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 7 at 2015 7:28 PM

CW5 Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 19:28:44 -0500

By Theodore Roosevelt:

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

Response by SPC(P) Jay Heenan made Jan 7 at 2015 8:01 PM

SPC(P) Jay Heenan — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 20:01:48 -0500

"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."
-Colin Powell

"I do not get drunk, I get awesome!"

Response by CMSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 8 at 2015 6:01 AM

CMSgt Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 06:01:57 -0500

You don't often get the opportunity to chose where you lead, but you always get the opportunity to chose whether you lead where you are at

Response by SSG Daniel Parker made Jan 9 at 2015 11:01 AM

SSG Daniel Parker — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 11:01:46 -0500

Philippians 4:13........I can do everything through Him that gives me strength. (N.I.V.)

Response by TSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 9 at 2015 11:33 AM

TSgt Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 11:33:35 -0500

"The right answer is always yes, except when it's no.
Growing up is about learning when the right answer is no."

Response by PO3 Jeff Lane made Jan 11 at 2015 8:49 PM

PO3 Jeff Lane — Sun, 11 Jan 2015 20:49:08 -0500

Lest we forget from where we come when we ourselves become the rulers.

Response by LTJG Robert M. made Jan 11 at 2015 9:04 PM

LTJG Robert M. — Sun, 11 Jan 2015 21:04:24 -0500

Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.

Gen. Alfred. M. Gray, USMC

Response by SSG Robert Burns made Mar 25 at 2015 10:05 PM

SSG Robert Burns — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 22:05:32 -0400

"When you wish upon a star...that star is millions of light years away and probably dead...just like your dreams." - Winnie the Pooh

Response by CPL Jesse Vasconcelos made Mar 25 at 2015 10:10 PM

CPL Jesse Vasconcelos — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 22:10:24 -0400

To the Japanese Commander "NUTS".
Another way of saying "we are going to finish kicking your a**".

Then-Brigadier General Anthony C. McAuliffe during World War II

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 25 at 2015 10:12 PM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 22:12:59 -0400

"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine 'that violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedom."

- Robert A. Heinlein

Response by MSgt Michelle Mondia made Mar 25 at 2015 11:59 PM

MSgt Michelle Mondia — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 23:59:48 -0400

Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It's that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.
Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

Response by CW3 Kevin Storm made Jul 27 at 2015 2:45 PM

CW3 Kevin Storm — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 14:45:57 -0400

"Fortune favors the bold" and I added to it, "Fortune favors the bold, but indecisiveness favors the weak"

Response by PO1 Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 7 at 2015 1:00 PM

PO1 Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 13:00:18 -0400

LTC Private RallyPoint Member "If there must be madness and time crunches and chaos in your life, then let there be chaos. But find the strength and stillness to be the eye inside that storm. These things are happening around you; nothing is happening to you."

Response by LT Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 7 at 2015 3:27 PM

LT Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 15:27:26 -0400

"Procrastination is the grave where opportunity is buried!"

Response by MAJ Ken Landgren made Aug 7 at 2015 6:21 PM

MAJ Ken Landgren — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 18:21:43 -0400

Destroy!

Response by Sgt Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 7 at 2015 6:34 PM

Sgt Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 18:34:49 -0400

"We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools."― Martin Luther King Jr.