I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.

Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.

I’m not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I’ve flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.

The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one’s conversion, worthiness, and preparation.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

Some of the generals are saying, ‚We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.‘ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy’s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we’re getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we’ve ever had before.

WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for – presidential medal of honor.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consider cynicism or giving up simply as forms of cowardice.

I’m committed to the fight game.

When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical – one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.

I’m pretty clean, hygienic and all that, but sometimes when I come home, I throw my coat over there, take one shoe off here, one shoe off there, but I’m not dirty.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

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.

You should not build your customer service system on the premise that your organisation will never question the whims of your clients.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn’t drink, they didn’t smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.

I don’t fear anybody… at all.

Most people know nobody in the military.

The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

I won’t belong to any organization that would have me as a member.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

Courage is grace under pressure.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?