Marine Corps Leadership Quotes & Sayings

Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain of training methods of wild animals in the circus, the aquatic and theatrical shows, leads to retaliation by the animals. Eventually they find the right time to strike out, and they will. — Tippi Hedren

That which does not correspond to the truth or to the moral norm possesses, objectively, no right either to existence or to propagation or to action. — Pope Pius XII

Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan

Coffee without doughnuts is like a day without sunshine. — James Patterson

The cost of leadership," explains Lieutenant General George Flynn of the United States Marine Corps, "is self-interest. — Simon Sinek

I was quite moved to see this huge crowd which attended the ceremony in the middle of the town. — Hermann Maier

And, incidentally: freedom is all too often self-deception among people. Just as freedom is among the most exalted of feelings, so the corresponding deception is among the most exalted of deceptions. — Franz Kafka

Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them. — John Dewey

At least the girls in stories were alive before they died. — Francesca Lia Block

I took a few steps toward the kitchen window although I'd already realized I couldn't look through the kitchen window because, as already mentioned, it's covered with filth from top to bottom. Austrian kitchen windows are all totally filthy and we can't look through them and naturally it's to our greatest advantage, I thought, not to be able to look through them because then we find ourselves staring into the mouth of catastrophe, into the chaos of Austrian kitchen filth. — Thomas Bernhard

I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know about leadership in the Marine Corps. Certain basic principles stay with you - sometimes consciously, mostly unconsciously. — Raymond Kelly

I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book. — Neil Gaiman

What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts?
The Boy Scouts have adult leadership. — Michael Herr

But if there's one thing Dad's bad times have taught me, it's this: I never, ever want to have anything I can't survive without. — Rebecca Podos

Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control a group of people successfully. — John A. Lejeune

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up. — George A. Smith

My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills. — Frederick W. Smith