When life gives you the dirty end of the stick, take the other end and sharpen it.

Gen. Colin L. Powell.

"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

"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

Toughness
 

Mental toughness is to physical, as four is to one. -Bobby Knight

Survives the test of time
 

"With respect to acting in the face of danger, courage is a mean between the excess of rashness and the deficiency of cowardice." Aristotle

F*ck a day off I'm moving heavy for the payoff.

-John Cena

Quote of the Day
 

"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."

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.

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.

Mistakes in combat are unpardonable sins, punishable by death. -- SFC Joe Walker, One Zero RT California.

Figured I would give one closer to home. :)

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."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------