Here's one I use it in my leadership team training days.

President Dwight Eisenhower - November 14, 1957

"Learn what you need for your life! Do not walk bowed and hunched, walk upright like free people! Walk with your head held high but never rise above others! Walk with sharp mind and a hot heart! Walk with more joy than the elders were able to walk through their lives with, for you are freer than all who lived before you, on our soil, ever were!"

Georg Leber "Father of soldiers" 7 October 1920 – 21 August 2012
Federal Minister of Defence 1972 - 1978
From his speech held during the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the universities of the German Federal Armed Forces in 1993

"And what would you do with a brain, if you had one ? " Dorothy, Wizard of Oz. :D

" Nothing is more dangerous than and NCO or Officer who has been taught a technique or method, but doesn't understand the underlying principles or the "why" behind it." (MtnGoat, QP)

Actually, I believe that Thomas Jefferson said that. ;)

"If you like your shovel-ready job, you can keep it."

King Pinnocchio

"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves"
~A.E. Wiggins (Orson Scott Card)

The power of empathy....

I have been so busy, I haven't been reading the site in about a month. I missed you, Dusty.:)

Good to see you JHD! Check your PM's!

And this is my pick for quote of the day! Chef's are very, very wise sometimes!

Outstading post, IMVHO!:lifter

Holly

+1

"We do not grow from our successes, but from our failures."

Where's my poncho liner?
 

"This place sucks! Let's live here!":boohoo

"Dude, this was like, two years ago..."

I was thinking of two that really resonated with me lately.

Life must be learned backwards, but lived forward.

And

Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but empties today of its strength.

"Were you born a fat, slimy, scumbag, puke, piece o' shit, Private Pyle, or did you have to work on it?" - Gunnery Sgt Hartman, Full Metal Jacket