Got "Quotes"

[<>Major_Havoc<>]

If you have good quotes. Post them in here.

[<>Major_Havoc<>]

I lie in bed at night wondering where I went wrong then a little voice inside my head tells me there will be lots more nights like this. (I forgot who said it I read it in a fencing magazine)

[<>Major_Havoc<>]

I think this should be our tuesday night quote. Hey Brain what are we doing tonight. Same thing we do every night pinky "Try and take over the world".

[Beetlebailey]

I regret that I have but one life to live for my country
- Nathin Hale

[SOONERSRBETTER]

veni,vedi veci?I came I saw I conquered[julius Ceaser right??]

[<>Major_Havoc<>]

Nice one both of you.

[Honey]

Don't wanna be mean but if I'm not mistaken it was "I regret that I have one life to give for my country." His last words before being hung for treason against Great Britain.

[<>Major_Havoc<>]

Were either of you present at this event? Didnt think so = coulda been either way.

[Major Destruction]

"You're gonna look mighty funny wearin' this Dodge van!"---author unknown

"I WILL motivate you Private Pyle. Even if it short changes every cannibal on the Congo!"---Master Gunnery Sergeant Hartman

"It was his time. And when it's your time I don't care where you hide or how fast you run it'll still be your time."---Master Gunnery Sergeant Tom Hiway

Many others available, see sig for examples.

[SOONERSRBETTER]

Fail to plan, plan to fail[dont remember were i got it from]

[firstknife]

It's the motto for NESA among other origins but I think Omar Bradley first said that I'm not sure

[MadMath]

"But, on the whole, tho' I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavour, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it; as those who aim at perfect writing by imitating the engraved copies, tho' they never reach the wish'd-for excellence of those copies, their hand is mended by the endeavour, and is tolerable while it continues fair and legible."

-from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

[SOONERSRBETTER]

I dont read at a collage level.

[firstknife]

Omar Bradley was an Armor General under Patton during the Afrika campaign, and during Patton's invasion of Sicily. He later became Patton's superior during Patton's trek towards Berlin. Later during the occupation of Germany (think post A-Bomb) he became quite a non-proliferationists (someone who is against nuking everthing) Tactics that he learned from Patton and improvised on his own are still being taught today at the Armor school at Ft Cambell and Ft Knox. His stance on nuclear weapons is taught as apart of military ethics at all service acadamies and in ROTC

of all the generals in US military history he's one of my three leadership types that I try to model myself after.
You dont have to be in the military to use these traits.

[firstknife]

These are my favorite 3 US Generals
1) Curtiss LeMay- "Tell the Vietmanese they've got to draw in their horns, or we're going to bomb them back to the Stone Age." (this guy became a Major General [2 star] at age 35 the youngest ever in the history of the army or airforce
2) Omar Bradley- "The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants... We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living
3) George Patton- " Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will suprise you with their ingenuity." " A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances." "The test of success is not what you do when your on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."

All of these Generals are mentioned in great detail in your leadership books at the end of the chapters I know because that's where I first started reading about them.