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Motivational quotes.
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I like these:
All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time. -- Lt Gen Lewis B. Puller, USMC
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. -- General George Patton Jr
We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem. -- Chesty Puller, USMC
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. -- John F. Kennedy
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. --Edmund Burke
The only patriotic Liberal is Tony Blair, and he's in England. --Ann Coulter
All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time. -- Lt Gen Lewis B. Puller, USMC
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. -- General George Patton Jr
We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem. -- Chesty Puller, USMC
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. -- John F. Kennedy
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. --Edmund Burke
The only patriotic Liberal is Tony Blair, and he's in England. --Ann Coulter
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
--JFK
(always one of my favorites)
"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."
-- Winston Churchill
--JFK
(always one of my favorites)
"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."
-- Winston Churchill
Confucious say..."Man who stand on toilet is high on pot."
"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. They do not set out to be a leader, but become leaders by the quality of their actions and the integrity of their intent. In the end, leaders are much like eagles...they don't flock, you find them one at a time." Unknown
Ahhh, there are so many different directions I can take that one....but I'll refrain.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done 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 and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and 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 know neither victory nor defeat."
-T. Roosevelt (I think the speech was given in France while accepting a Nobel Prize? If so, how fortuitous(sp?) was it of the french 20th century)
"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 and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and 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 know neither victory nor defeat."
-T. Roosevelt (I think the speech was given in France while accepting a Nobel Prize? If so, how fortuitous(sp?) was it of the french 20th century)
The Teddy Roosevelt quote is taken from "Citizenship in a Republic" - it was given in Paris, France - 1910. One of my favorite quotes.
"When I look back at my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul – then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift. Life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness! “Si la jeunesie Savint!” (If youth only knew)
Dostoevsky – writing to his brother on the day of his reprieve from execution.
"Old bureaucrat, my comrade, it is not you who are to blame. No one ever helped you to escape. You, like a termite, built your peace by blocking up with cement every chink and cranny through which the light might pierce. You rolled yourself up into a ball in your genteel security, in routine, in the stifling conventions of provincial life, raising a modest rampart against the winds and the tides and the stars. You have chosen not to be perturbed by great problems, having trouble enough to forget your own fate as man. You are not the dweller upon an errant planet and do not ask yourself questions to which there are no answers. You are a petty bourgeois of Toulouse. Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which your were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the astronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning."
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Wind, Sand, and Stars
Also, the poem "Ulysses" - by Tennison - I'll spare the space, though.
Last one - for all the aviators....(Not really inspirational)
I hope there's a place, way up in the sky,
Where pilots can go, when they have to die.
A place where a guy can buy a cold beer
For a friend and a comrade, whose memory is dear;
A place where no doctor or lawyer can tread ,
Nor a management type would ere be caught dead;
Just a quaint little place, kind of dark, full of smoke,
Where they like to sing loud, and love a good joke;
The kind of a place where a lady could go
And feel safe and protected, by the men she would know.
There must be a place where old pilots go,
When their paining is finished, and their airspeed gets low,
Where the whiskey is old, and the women are young,
And songs about flying and dying are sung,
Where you'd see all the fellows who'd flown west before,
And they'd call out your name, as you came through the
door.
Who would buy you a drink, if your thirst should be bad,
And relate to the others, "He was quite a good lad!"
And then through the mist, you'd spot an old guy
You had not seen in years, though he taught you to fly.
He'd nod his old head, and grin ear to ear;
And say, "Welcome, my son, I'm pleased that you're here."
"For this is the place where true flyers come,"
"When their journey is over, and the war has been won."
"They've come here at last to be safe and alone"
"From the government clerks and the management clone,"
"Politicians and lawyers, the Feds and the noise,"
"Where all hours are happy, and these good ole boys"
"Can relax with a cool one, and a well deserved rest;"
"This is heaven, my son......You've passed your last test!"
Author Unknown
"When I look back at my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul – then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift. Life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness! “Si la jeunesie Savint!” (If youth only knew)
Dostoevsky – writing to his brother on the day of his reprieve from execution.
"Old bureaucrat, my comrade, it is not you who are to blame. No one ever helped you to escape. You, like a termite, built your peace by blocking up with cement every chink and cranny through which the light might pierce. You rolled yourself up into a ball in your genteel security, in routine, in the stifling conventions of provincial life, raising a modest rampart against the winds and the tides and the stars. You have chosen not to be perturbed by great problems, having trouble enough to forget your own fate as man. You are not the dweller upon an errant planet and do not ask yourself questions to which there are no answers. You are a petty bourgeois of Toulouse. Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which your were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the astronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning."
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Wind, Sand, and Stars
Also, the poem "Ulysses" - by Tennison - I'll spare the space, though.
Last one - for all the aviators....(Not really inspirational)
I hope there's a place, way up in the sky,
Where pilots can go, when they have to die.
A place where a guy can buy a cold beer
For a friend and a comrade, whose memory is dear;
A place where no doctor or lawyer can tread ,
Nor a management type would ere be caught dead;
Just a quaint little place, kind of dark, full of smoke,
Where they like to sing loud, and love a good joke;
The kind of a place where a lady could go
And feel safe and protected, by the men she would know.
There must be a place where old pilots go,
When their paining is finished, and their airspeed gets low,
Where the whiskey is old, and the women are young,
And songs about flying and dying are sung,
Where you'd see all the fellows who'd flown west before,
And they'd call out your name, as you came through the
door.
Who would buy you a drink, if your thirst should be bad,
And relate to the others, "He was quite a good lad!"
And then through the mist, you'd spot an old guy
You had not seen in years, though he taught you to fly.
He'd nod his old head, and grin ear to ear;
And say, "Welcome, my son, I'm pleased that you're here."
"For this is the place where true flyers come,"
"When their journey is over, and the war has been won."
"They've come here at last to be safe and alone"
"From the government clerks and the management clone,"
"Politicians and lawyers, the Feds and the noise,"
"Where all hours are happy, and these good ole boys"
"Can relax with a cool one, and a well deserved rest;"
"This is heaven, my son......You've passed your last test!"
Author Unknown
There I was, fog was so thick I couldn't see the instruments. Only way I knew I was Inverted was my flying medals were in my eyes. But I knew I was really in trouble when the tower called me and told me to climb and maintain field elevation.
Flying helicopters is like masturbating. It feels good while you’re doing it, but you’re ashamed to tell anyone afterwards.
Flying helicopters is like masturbating. It feels good while you’re doing it, but you’re ashamed to tell anyone afterwards.
CLAM97to99
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"Stay away from people who belittle your ambition. Really great people make you feel that you too can become great."
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
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