Marine Corps Drill Instructor Quotes & Sayings

Rejection is good for the soul. — Eva Mendes

Sociology has gone the way of poli-sci and econ, now firmly in the clutches of rabid number crunchers who have abandoned or forgotten the link between their abstruse theoretical musings and the presence of human beings on the planet's surface; — Julie Schumacher

He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom. — Charles Spurgeon

A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves. — J.B. Priestley

It takes confidence and guts to intentionally create tension. — Seth Godin

Just as the DNA is a structure of double helical bonds, so your being is a structure of elements, not physical elements, but awarenesses that have come together in a ring of power. — Frederick Lenz

God does not look at your outer forms,
but at the love within your love. — Rumi

Do not let your fire go out. — Ayn Rand

It's like geographical humor. You just don't get it unless you were there. — Melina Marchetta

If eyes are windows into the soul, books are rabbit holes into the imagination. — Seth King

Gold is the kindest of all hosts when it shines in the sky, but comes as an evil guest to those who receive it in the hand. — Gene Wolfe

Every time the drill instructor screamed at me and I stood proudly; every time I thought I'd fall behind during a run and kept up; every time I learned to do something I thought impossible, like climb the rope, I came a little closer to believing in myself. Psychologists call it "learned helplessness" when a person believes, as I did during my youth, that the choices I made had no effect on the outcomes in my life. From Middletown's world of small expectations to the constant chaos of our home, life had taught me that I had no control. Mamaw and Papaw had saved me from succumbing entirely to that notion, and the Marine Corps broke new ground. If I had learned helplessness at home, the Marines were teaching learned willfulness. The — J.D. Vance

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. — Molly Ivins

The Web itself doesn't as much change the way we do things as it changes the ease with which we do things. And that changes the way we do everything. — David A. Siegel