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Hoff · Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 506 Location: Warrior Nirvana

I dig good quotes, they're inspiring and make you want to kick butt with your life. Might as well get started with a good one:

"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 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 up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for 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 he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt
"Citizenship in a Republic" Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

Hoff · Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 506 Location: Warrior Nirvana

Only those are fit to live, who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are part of the same great adventure.

Teddy Roosevelt

Hoff · Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 506 Location: Warrior Nirvana

Whoever, does not have the stomach for this fight, let him depart. Give him money to speed his departure since we wish not to die in that mans company. Whoever lives past today and comes home safely will rouse himself every year on this day, show his neighbors his scars, and tell embellishes stories of all their great feats of battle. These stories will teach his son and from this day until the end of the world we shall be remembered. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for whoever had shed his blood with me shall be my brother. And those men afraid to go will think themselves lesser men as they hear of how we fought and died together.

Shakespeare, Henry V

Mel · Joined: 06 Jul 2007 Posts: 17 Location: Houston

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
but the size of the fight in the dog."

DEMON · Joined: 13 Jul 2007 Posts: 185 Location: Houston,Texas

Out of every 100 men,
10 should not even be there,
80 are just targets,
9 are real Fighters,and we are lucky to have them,for they make the battle.
Ah,but the ONE,
ONE is a WARRIOR,
and he will bring the others back.

- HERACLITUS - Twisted Evil

DEMON · Joined: 13 Jul 2007 Posts: 185 Location: Houston,Texas

No bastar- ever won a war by dying for his country.He won it by making the other poor bastar-die for his country.

- General George S Patton - Twisted Evil

DEMON · Joined: 13 Jul 2007 Posts: 185 Location: Houston,Texas

Regard your soldiers as your children,and they will follow you into the deepest valleys.Look on them as your own beloved sons,and they will stand by you even unto death!

- Sun Tzu - Twisted Evil

M.W. · Joined: 12 Jul 2007 Posts: 130 Location: inside the loop

I love quotes too Brian and everybody...they tell me that other people have gone through the same experiences we do. Memorizing them helps me to crystallize my thoughts about the different situations/issues I come across in life.

This is a favorite website of mine http://www.quotedb.com/

DEMON · Joined: 13 Jul 2007 Posts: 185 Location: Houston,Texas

We must remember that one man is much the same as another,and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

- THUCYDIDES -

I belive this guy was a profit,and even though it was 400 BC he was talking about HOFFNERS TRAINING ACADEMY! Aint that right Brian! Twisted Evil

DEMON · Joined: 13 Jul 2007 Posts: 185 Location: Houston,Texas

From now until the end of the world,We and it shall be remembered.We few,we Band of Brothers.For he who sheds his blood with me shall be my Brother.

- William Shakespeare - King Henry V

Twisted Evil

DEMON · Joined: 13 Jul 2007 Posts: 185 Location: Houston,Texas

Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste death but once.

- William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar

Twisted Evil

fm2 · Joined: 16 Jul 2007 Posts: 67

“To rage and mock is gentlemanly, to grumble and whine is not” - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

"In ourselves our safety must be sought,
By our own right hand it must be wrought."

-- William Wordsworth

"The frightening nature of knowledge leaves one no alternative but to
become a warrior."

-- "don Juan," from Casteneda’s A Separate Reality (p. 150)

Invest in preparedness, not in prediction.

-Nassim Taleb

Therefore, since the world has still
Much good, but much less good than ill,
And while the sun and moon endure,
Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure,
I'd face it as a wise man would,
And train for ill and not for good.

-AE Housman

Hoff · Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 506 Location: Warrior Nirvana

All good stuff guys, makes me want to work even harder which reminds me of Thomas Jefferson saying something like "The harder I work the luckier I get"
Hoff

DEMON · Joined: 13 Jul 2007 Posts: 185 Location: Houston,Texas

When life serves you lemons...Throw them at the Gabronie in the fruit cart and tell him to give you some [*******] oranges! Twisted Evil

- DEMON -

specrat · Joined: 29 Jun 2007 Posts: 201 Location: the shop

Are we allowed movie quotes here too? I don't mean to sound corny, sarcastic or belittle the meaning of this post *at all* but c'mon... there's warrior movies that, amongst all the fodder, have made us grit our teeth and reminded us of the spirit and codes we live by...

such as Gladiator - Maximus: "I knew a man once who said, "Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back." "
Proximo: "In the end, we're all dead men. Sadly, we cannot choose how, or when. But what we can choose is how we decide to meet that end, so we are remembered forever as men."

or The Thirteenth Warrior - "Merciful Father, I have squandered my days with plans of many things. This was not among them. But at this moment, I beg only to live the next few minutes well. For all we ought to have thought, and have not thought; all we ought to have said, and have not said; all we ought to have done, and have not done; I pray thee God for forgiveness."

I like these, even if written in screenplay and acted by actors. They remind me of being tested and being in the arena