Superiority lies with he who is reared in the severest school.
-Thucydides
I’m dead, but if you’re reading this, you’re not, so take a moment to enjoy that happy fact.
-Major Andrew Olmsted, KIA 080103
As an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.
-The Dhammapada
Become what you are.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The mathematicians subject is the most curious of all - there is none in which truth plays such odd pranks.
-G.H. Hardy
Time served doesn’t guarantee good judgement. A resume doesn’t guarantee good character.
-Barak Obama
Marines I see as two breeds, Rottweilers or Dobermans, because Marines come in two varieties, big and mean, or skinny and mean. They’re aggressive on the attack and tenacious on the defense. They’ve got really short hair and always go for the throat.
-RAdm “Jay” R. Stark, USN, 10 Nov. 1995
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
An army can win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.
-Spartans
Training exercises in Roman legions were bloodless battles — so that their battles were bloody exercises. Equivalently, Train in bloodless baddles to fight bloody exercises.
-Unknown
Today is the death of yesterday.
-Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
Doctrine is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
-Gen. James Mattis, USMC
Of all religions the Christian is without doubt the one which should inspire tolerance most, although up to now the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
-Voltaire
Things may come to those who wait, but only things left by those who hustle.
-Abraham Lincoln
