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Snaquebite
05-25-2010, 23:40
Feel free to contribute, remember the main topic of this thread.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it!
Ella WIlliams
The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.
William James
In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly. – Hugo Black
Big Boss
05-26-2010, 02:29
If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.
Corrie TenBoom
steel_eel
05-26-2010, 09:59
The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.
William James
Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes:
"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure."
-Norman Vincent Peale
Snaquebite
05-27-2010, 12:02
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
greenberetTFS
05-27-2010, 12:35
Stupid is as stupid does............ ;) Sally Field,Forest Gump
Si ventus non est, remiga. If there is no wind, row.
bandycpa
07-26-2010, 20:25
"Critics are men who sit and watch a battle from a high place and come down to shoot the survivors." – Ernest Hemingway
Although he had many great quotes, I think these are appropriate for this site.
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.
George Washington
Common but a classic nonetheless:
"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." -Theodore Roosevelt, April 23, 1910
and one from an amazing human being:
“The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.” -Viktor Frankl
V/r,
Forward
SouthernDZ
07-27-2010, 07:20
The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.
William James
"You can't change the wind, but you can always adjust the sails" - Unknown Author
Nightfall
11-03-2010, 10:44
Haven't seen one in a while, so...
"He impaired his vision by holding the object too close. He might see, perhaps, one or two points with unusual clearness, but in so doing he, necessarily, lost sight of the matter as a whole. Thus there is such a thing as being too profound. Truth is not always in a well. In fact, as regards the more important knowledge, I do believe that she is invariably superficial. The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found." - E. A. Poe
...there are some things that can beat smartness and foresight. Awkwardness and stupidity can. The best swordsman in the world doesn't need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a sword in his hand before; he doesn't do the thing he ought to do, and so the expert isn't prepared for him.
- Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Bordercop
11-03-2010, 11:12
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
P. J. O'Rourke
Tatonka316
11-03-2010, 11:44
"The path to my fixed purpose is laid on iron rails in which my soul is grooved to ride." Herman Melvile, Moby Dick
molon labe:lifter
drymartini66
11-03-2010, 15:52
When life gives you the dirty end of the stick, take the other end and sharpen it.
Gen. Colin L. Powell.
2018commo
11-03-2010, 21:25
"We keep you alive to serve this ship. Row well and live."
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. - Thomas Jefferson
"I know of no more encouraging facts than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a concious endeavor." -Henry D. Thoreau-Walden
Big Boss
11-04-2010, 03:47
"Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another."
-George Washington
"A man will never know his own limitations unless, every once in a while, he exceeds them."
Mental toughness is to physical, as four is to one. -Bobby Knight
"With respect to acting in the face of danger, courage is a mean between the excess of rashness and the deficiency of cowardice." Aristotle
Decoy_Octopus
11-05-2010, 10:28
F*ck a day off I'm moving heavy for the payoff.
-John Cena
Stingray
11-14-2010, 03:43
"You will deal with one of two pains in your life. The pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The great thing is, you get to choose."
Surgicalcric
11-14-2010, 18:53
F*ck a day off I'm moving heavy for the payoff.
-John Cena
Did you really just quote an actor/wrestler/rapper in a thread about mindset?
If this is all you have to add you should seriously consider not adding anything in the future.
The Reaper
11-14-2010, 21:52
I hear a Black Chinook inbound.
TR
"If you're runnin' in the woods and you smell a billy goat, jump! 'Cause it's a snake." Col. Bad Bob Howard at my SFQC graduation ceremony in '83.
longrange1947
11-15-2010, 07:03
Mistakes in combat are unpardonable sins, punishable by death. -- SFC Joe Walker, One Zero RT California.
Figured I would give one closer to home. :)
Team Sergeant
11-15-2010, 09:25
One of my all time favorites;
Dec.23, 1944 - "Battle of the Bulge"
An entire U.S. armored division is retreating from the Germans in the Ardennes forest when a sergeant in a tank destroyer spotted an American digging a foxhole. The GI, PFC Martin, 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, looked up and asked, "Are you looking for a safe place?" "Yeah," answered the tanker.
"Well, buddy," he drawled, "Just pull your vehicle behind me...
I'm the 82nd Airborne, and this is as far as the bastards are going."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ambush Master
11-15-2010, 19:15
"If you're runnin' in the woods and you smell a billy goat, jump! 'Cause it's a snake." Col. Bad Bob Howard at my SFQC graduation ceremony in '83.
Mistakes in combat are unpardonable sins, punishable by death. -- SFC Joe Walker, One Zero RT California.
Figured I would give one closer to home. :)
I worked for Bob and RT California's Team Room was in the same buildindg as RTNY, next door.
Real Problems Have NO SOLUTUIONS........Therefore we are not having a Real Problem!!
me!!
hydrashok
11-18-2010, 18:16
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not. The world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence, determination and hard work make the difference. -- Calvin Coolidge
Jack Dale
11-28-2010, 00:46
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not. The world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence, determination and hard work make the difference. -- Calvin Coolidge
My own view of persistence is that it must be like the real rules to soccer, which are:
If it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does move!
Jack Dale
11-28-2010, 00:48
Another of my favorites, and one I try to keep in mind every day is:
Never argue with idiots. They just drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
"That boy has not been around the coffee pot long enough to find the handle".
Peeking in here slowly, to add one of my all-time favorite pieces of advice:
"I have hung out in dangerous places a lot over the years, from combat zones to biker bars, and it is the weak, the unaware, or those looking for it, that usually find trouble.
Ain't no one getting out of this world alive. All you can do is try to have some choice in the way you go. Prepare yourself (and your affairs), and when your number is up, die on your feet fighting rather than on your knees. And make the SOBs pay dearly." TR 09-04-2004, 09:30
drymartini66
12-01-2010, 19:20
" To error is human, to forgive is not my policy."
Unknown
Foreboding and dark clouds are not controllable, dark moods are...Blitzzz.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -e.e. Cummings
I read one here, just the other day. It says:
Ruckers make better F*ckers
Dang-it, I wish I knew that some time ago.....jd
Two quotes from one of my favorite authors and poets:
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
FrostyHunter
12-12-2010, 19:05
"If other eyes grow dull and other hands slack, and other hearts cold in the solemn trust, ours shall keep it well as long as the light and warmth of life remain in us."
"Never take counsel of your fears."
-- Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson (1824-1863)
The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of “loyalty” and “duty.” Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute--get out of there fast. You may possibly save yourself, but it is too late to save that society. It is doomed.
Robert Heinlein
Custer started to beleive his own press.
Here are a few from Miyamoto Musashi:
"Do nothing that is of no use"
“You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.”
“To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.”
and my favorite:
"It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first."
Another from Miyamoto Musashi:
"Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men."
"That boy is so hard on shit he could F**k up an anvil"
My uncle speaking about his son.
MVP
The Reaper
02-07-2011, 12:59
First search, then post.
TR
The Sheepdog
02-07-2011, 13:57
This is one that I often use to teach my guys to think about what they are going to say before opening their mouths and speaking something they shouldn't and being unable to fix the mess they caused due to their "speaking before thinking."
“He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot.” Unknown
ErikTheRed
02-07-2011, 21:49
"Shit or get off the pot."
"That boy is so confused he doesn't know wither to shit or go blind!"
"Don't park your car in someone else's garage. "
Warpath66
02-08-2011, 02:56
Paraphrased from one of my military counselors:
Any hardship you face while you are here, any struggle back home that may distract you from your job, any physical weakness that may prevent you from achieving the objective; look past it. Supplement it with a determination to succeed. And when people ask you how you surmounted all the obstacles in your way, you can make all of these difficulties as a part of your incredible story, rather than just excuses.
"When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target." - Unknown
The Sheepdog
02-18-2011, 08:27
“Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.” Author Unknown
This short statement says it all. A team can't stand without character. The entire team concept falls apart without unit integrity firmly in place. It's one of those characteristics that I feel are going by the wayside. Today, more than ever, we need mentors that teach and instill character in the next generation of Warriors.
It is not the strongest of the species, nor the most intelligent that survive. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
Charles Darwin
Big 'possum clime li'l tree.
J.C. Harris
Warpath66
02-21-2011, 23:14
"We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty." - John F. Kennedy
Favorite serious...
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find that it was vanity;
But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. -T.E. Lawrence(of Arabia)
Favorite funny
(bill has meningitis)
Rob: "How are you fellin' buddy?"
Bill: "Not so great, but i think i'll live."
Rob: "Thats good to hear, I can't have you dying on me, I need someone to look after things after I go."
Bill: "I'll look after your wife."
Rob: "...wow..."
"One who is already wet does not feel the rain."
-Turkish Proverb
The Sheepdog
02-25-2011, 08:40
To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
In today's vernacular, "What is right isn't always popular and what's popular isn't always right".
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
-General Douglas Macarthur
Tree Potato
03-01-2011, 02:20
If I may indulge with a treasured family quote... as a child I discussed the Normandy invasion with my great uncle. Uncle Matt couldn't swim, was terrified of water, and was on two landing craft that were sunk inbound to the beach.
"Son, sometimes you have to teach yourself how to swim. In my case it wasn't pretty, but I'm here and the water ballet critics aren't."--Uncle Matt.
The Sheepdog
03-01-2011, 08:33
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
It certainly speaks toward the Warrior mindset. The willingness to not quit when your body wants to.
"The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself."
-Sir Alexander Paterson
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
-John Quincy Adams
"Keep moving or we will throw dirt on you..."
Birthday wishes from Stephen Parker, PLS.
The Sheepdog
03-15-2011, 08:31
“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.” -- Billy Graham
cat in the hat
03-18-2011, 09:12
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. (R.A. Heinlein)
kind of reminds me of some people around here
Billy L-bach
03-18-2011, 11:01
"Reload..."
Your best? Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and f**k the prom queen.
Sean Connery
"You better stop! Or else! I've been bullied before!"
A certain world leader to a certain world leader.
"I can jump in the middle of you , kill half of ya before you knew what the fuck was going on".......
Welcome speech in the JFK auditorium in I think Jul 82, by Maj Bob Howard just before loading on the cattle cars to go to Mackall for PH I......yeah, made me feel welcome.
I was a new buck SGT from 82d....wondering....WTF did I get myself into???
I found out....
oh what fun.......
"Those who beat their swords into plowshares inevitably wind up plowing for people with Swords"
Me, after about 10 Labatt's Blues....
"Those who beat their swords into plowshares inevitably wind up plowing for people with Swords"
Me, after about 10 Labatt's Blues....
Your Labatts wisdom is strong in you....I sense:D
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
Ernest Hemingway
"Hurry up before I give you a dollar" - Grandpa
Today, I found out what it was like to be a proctologist. Had to work with assholes all day.
Snaquebite
03-23-2011, 22:36
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
The Sheepdog
03-24-2011, 11:45
If you knew you were going to be in the fight of your life today, would you have trained harder yesterday?" -- Unknown
Hooligan
03-26-2011, 13:41
I came into work with a headache today, and mentioned that I was heading down to the nurses station to pick up some asprin.
One of the guys on the outgoing shift who just turned 20 in Feb. said to me..."You know..In my years of experience I've found that pain can be ignored....":D
I was laughing the whole way down to policing up my asprin..
Blind Eye
03-30-2011, 22:59
"I never saw a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself"
- D.H. Lawrence
logisticsclerk
03-31-2011, 08:50
"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."
Tommy Lasorda
Viktor Frankl from Man's Search for Meaning:
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
----
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle
Warpath66
04-03-2011, 01:22
"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced." - Abraham Lincoln
The best speeches need no further explanation.
http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm
DevilSide
04-11-2011, 21:14
you will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
One of the guys on the outgoing shift who just turned 20 in Feb. said to me..."You know..In my years of experience I've found that pain can be ignored..."
So I kneed him hard in his junk, and asked him if he wanted me to pick up a couple aspiring for him.
Live right so when it comes your time to die,
you will not be like those whose hearts are filled with
the fear of death, who weep and pray for a little more
time to live their lives over again in a different way.
Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
-Tecumseh
Noslack71
04-15-2011, 23:21
" Truth is a demure lady, much to lady like to knock you on the head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but the people must want her and seek her out."
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
"Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity."
-Aristotle-
" It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
-Seneca-
Best Regards
Noslack
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."
- George Bernard Shaw
Not sure where it came from but it helps me every time I feel like stopping:
"I do it because I can, I can because I want to, I want to because you said I couldn’t"
A few more that motivate me:
"I'm not telling you its going to be easy, but I'm saying it will be worth"
"It's a lifestyle - train like there's no finish line."
"Only the weak attempts to accomplish what he knows he can already achieve." - Stella Juarez
The Sheepdog
04-27-2011, 09:40
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on.~Walter Lippman
This speaks to the legacy left behind by many great leaders. While many of them are gone and many are still here, we continue to find ourselves striving to live up to the standards they previously set before us.
"Manners are not idle but the fruit of loyal nature and noble mind."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies, justice will be done. "
"We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail."
"On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who, at the Dawn of Victory, sat down to wait, and waiting--died"
-George W. Cecil
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. - Samuel Adams
It may sound corny, but I get my highest inspiration from my heroes. These quotes exemplify what I admire and try to emulate in a hero.
"The characteristic of genuine heroism is persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper."
- Aristotle
Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it -Prefontaine
"Resolve is a breeze when one’s commitment has never been tested. It is when the fear, chaos, and stress of a crisis hits that true resolve is revealed."
Team Sergeant
05-30-2011, 11:15
"These are Sparta's walls."
When asked why Sparta lacked fortifications, King Agesilaus' pointed to his men.
Team Sergeant
05-30-2011, 11:20
This forum is "The Bear Pit" it deals with "Mindset", a warriors mindset.
If your post is now missing it's because it had nothing to do with that mindset.
Team Sergeant
Carlos (Hatchcock) recalled, "My Daddy told me a long time ago, when I was a little feller, he said, 'Son, there is no such word as 'can't'. Some things are a little harder to accomplish than others, but the word 'can't' does not stay in my vocabulary. Don't let it stay in yours.' And, since then, I've used the same thing. There's no such word as 'can't' - and my guys quit using it too. They'd say, 'but, Gunny, I can't do that,' and I'd say 'WHAT?? What was that four-letter word?' If they used it again, they'd be doing push-ups all day. There is NOTHING you cannot do."
SpikedBuck
05-30-2011, 12:04
"Its not the dog in the fight, but the fight in the dog..." -COL J. Moroney
What the Bulldog used to tell me when I was weak and sniveling...
Actual quote is from Mark Twain: "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."
GratefulCitizen
05-30-2011, 14:51
Concerning doubters and scoffers.
When someone says: "You can't do that!"
What they really mean is: "I can't do that."
tom kelly
06-02-2011, 09:32
1. Whiskey makes you think you are smarter than you really are?
2. Don't run out of ammunition in a gun fight?
3: Reload when you want to; Not when you have to?
Advice from Team Sgt. Richard E Pegram Det. A-333 June,1964.
You usually think of at least a hundred reasons why you should stop. But there is only one reason why you should keep going.
Peteyboy
06-06-2011, 15:10
"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
219seminole
06-06-2011, 18:48
On 5 June 1944, Gen Eisenhower penciled a note of responsibility should the Normandy invasion fail.
Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air [force] and the navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
Who today among our leaders would do such a thing, and do it with eloquence and brevity?
Snaquebite
06-06-2011, 19:00
“The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.” Carlos Cansteneda
Peteyboy
06-09-2011, 19:54
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
-Ronald Reagan
Stedfast
06-20-2011, 21:57
"Gentlemen," said Washington, "you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I have not only grown gray but almost blind in the service of my country." G. Washington
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
- General George Patton Jr
The Sheepdog
07-08-2011, 14:10
"The courage of the soldier is heightened by the knowledge of his profession." -- Flavius Vegetius Renatus
My center gives way, my right is pushed back. Situation excellent, I am attacking- Ferdinand Foch
ObliqueApproach
07-23-2011, 15:30
"But until I’m a little older, I’ll just keep my mouth shut and my rucksack on."
Good advice! :lifter
You need to be mentally prepared to prefer dying on pain rather than losing. -Bart Gordon
What you need to realize is that it is just a feeling. Feelings shouldn't get in the way of what you ought to be doing.
-George Malley on tiredness (mostly a paraphrase)
“A king does not abide within his tent while his men bleed and die upon the field. A king does not dine while his men go hungry, nor sleep when they stand at watch upon the wall. A king does not command his men’s loyalty through fear nor purchase it with gold; he earns their love by the sweat of his own back and the pains he endures for their sake. That which comprises the harshest burden, a king lifts first and sets down last. A king does not require service of those he leads but provides it to them. He serves them, not they him.”
Steven Pressfield: Gates of Fire
I won't make a habit of posting often.
"There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit."
- From a plaque that was on President Reagan's desk
Team Sergeant
11-10-2011, 13:17
Saw this the other day and liked it:
"WHATEVER DOESN'T KILL ME…HAD BETTER START RUNNING"
"Big 'possum clime li'l tree."
Uncle Remus
deepheart
11-12-2011, 18:50
"Listen to me, boy. Only gods and heroes can be brave in isolation. A man may call upon courage only one way, in the ranks with his brothers-in-arms, the line of his tribe and his city. Most piteous of all states under heaven is that of a man alone, bereft of the gods of his home and his polis." Excerpt from the novel Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
deepheart
11-13-2011, 07:45
"...But for the warrior, the seasons are not marked by these sweet measures nor by the calendared years themselves, but by the battles. Campaigns fought and comrades lost; trials of death survived. Clashes and conflicts from which time effaces all superficial recall, leaving only the fields themselves and their names, which achieve in the warrior's memory a stature ennobled beyond all other modes of commemoration, purchased with the holy coin of blood and paid for with the lives of beloved brothers-in-arms. As the priest with his graphis and tablet of wax, the infantryman, too, has his scription. His history is carved upon his person with the stylus of steel, his alphabet engraved with spear and sword indelibly upon his flesh."
---Dienekes
Gates of Fire
Warpath66
11-15-2011, 17:12
"The price of ridding society of bad is always high" - Richard Helms
“The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions”
Miyamoto Musashi
tom kelly
11-23-2011, 12:44
A man always has two good reasons for doing anything--- a good reason, and the real reason. Special Forces does things for the right reason.
SGM. Richard E. Pegram
U S Army Special Forces
KIA. 8/23/1968 Vietnam
greenberetTFS
11-23-2011, 13:43
Gone but not forgotten...
SGM. Richard E. Pegram
U S Army Special Forces
KIA. 8/23/1968 Vietnam
God Bless,Rest in Peace Warrior...........:(
He was just a simple soldier and his ranks are growing thin
But his presence should remind us; we may need his like again,
For when countries are in conflict, then we find the soldier's part
Is to clean up all the troubles that the politicians start.
If we cannot do him honor while he's here to hear the praise,
Then at least let's give him homage at the ending of his days.........:(.
Perhaps just a simple headline in the paper that might say:
OUR COUNTRY IS IN MOURNING, FOR A SOLDIER DIED TODAY. (author unknown)
The passing of our soldiers often go unnoticed and unsung by most of the world, remembered only by family and friends. Wish it were not so. May he RIP, his family will be in my thoughts and prayers.........:(
I realize it's a Canadian song,however I believe most appropriate for this occasion...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrkgV5bl7kQ
Big Teddy
The two most important days of your life are the day you are born and the day you figure out why.
average321
12-30-2011, 00:21
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell
Dozer523
12-30-2011, 05:18
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell "We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." – Winston Churchill
“America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace.” – Ronald Reagan
frostfire
05-18-2012, 22:20
The greater the struggle, the more glorious the triumph
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p98KAEif3bI
Damocles
05-20-2012, 13:19
A man at his best. You are not so born. Strive daily to develop yourself in your person, in your calling, until perfection is attained: the fullness of your every gift, of your every faculty. You will know it in the improvement of your taste, in the clarification of your thinking, in the maturity of your judgement, in the control of your will. Some never attain the perfect, something always being lacking, and others are late in coming to themselves. The man complete, wise in speech, wise in action, is admitted, yea, he is welcomed into that rare fellowship of those who understand.
Baltasar Gracian
The world cries out for such: he is needed and needed badly - the man who can carry a message to Garcia.
Elbert Hubbard, A Message to Garcia