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• Don't Quit, anonymous
   
• Invictus, by William Henley
   
• Good...Bad...You Choose, anonymous
   
• Why do I Run?, by George Sheehan
   
• The Way, anonymous
   
• When the Sun Comes up in Africa, anonymous
   
• The Rabbit and the Fox, anonymous

Quotes

Quotes are also great to know for the same reasons, and they're easier to remember!

Military/Political Quotes:

• Winston Churchill was one of the great leaders in the 20th century and left behind some excellent words of wisdom
   
• "Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts."
      Winston Churchill
   
• "When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite."  Winston Churchill
   
• "Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver.  The greater the general, the more he contributes to maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter."  Winston Churchill
   
• "The point of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his."  General MacArthur
   
• "They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay.  They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk.  And I loved them."  General MacArthur
   
• "Better to fight for something than to live for nothing."  General Patton
   
• "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.  Rather we should thank God that such men lived."  General Patton
   
• "Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid."  David Hackworth
   
• "All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing."
      Edmund Burke
   
• "Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them."  FDR
   
• "Above all things, never be afraid.  The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment."  Andre Maurois
   
• "Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
      Cicero
   
• "War does not determine who is right, only who is left."  Bertrand Russell
   
• "Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."
       Bertrand Russell
   
• "Death solves all problems - no man, no problem."  Joseph Stalin
   
• "He who conquers endures."  Persius
   
• "If we don't end war, war will end us."  HG Wells
   
• "All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers."  Francois Fenelon
   
• "So long as there will be men, there will be wars."  Albert Einstein
   
• "You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will show him all your art of war."  Napolean
   
• "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."  Napolean
   
• "Older men declare war, but it is the youth who fight and die."  Herbert Hoover
   
• "For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast,
  And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd;
  And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill,
  And their hearts but once heaved, and forever grew still." 
      George Gordon Byron, The Destruction of Sennacherib
   
• "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.  The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.  The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
      John Stuart Mill
   
• "Out of every 100 men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the 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

Eastern Philosophy Quotes:

• "He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere."  Ali ibn Abi-Talib
   
• "When you seek it, you cannot find it."  Zen Riddle
   
• "Nothing is impossible to a willing mind."  Books of Han Dynasty
   
• "Patience is the essential quality of a man."  Kwai-Koo-Tsu
   
• "Power of the mind is infinite while brawn is limited."  Koichi Tohei
   
• "The mind should be nowhere in particular."  Takuan
   
• "You and your opponent are one.  There is a coexisting relationship between you.  You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him."  Bruce Lee
   
• "The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be."  Bruce Lee
   
• "Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.  This is the ultimate."  Chuang-Tzu
   
• "The mind of a perfect man is like a mirror.  It grasps nothing.  It expects nothing.  It reflects but does not hold.  Therefore, the perfect man can act without effort."
      Chuang-Tzu
   
• "Control your emotion or it will control you."  Chinese adage
   
• "I can defeat you physically with or without a reason.  But I can only defeat your mind with a reason."  Jim Lau
   
• "To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill.  To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill."  Sun-Tzu
   
• "In order to achieve victory you must place yourself in your opponent's skin.  If you don't understand yourself, you will lose one hundred percent of the time.  If you understand yourself, you will win fifty percent of the time.  If you understand yourself and your opponent, you will win one hundred percent of the time."  Tsutomu Oshima

Sports/Entertainment Quotes:

• "Women weaken legs!"  Mickey (Rocky I)
   
• "You're gonna eat lightnin' and you're gonna crap thunder!!"  Mickey (Rocky I)
   
• "You don't always know when you've done something right, but you always know when you've done something wrong."  Billy Joel
   
• "Every man's life ends the same way.  It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."  Ernest Hemingway
   
• "When I go home people ask me, they say "Hey Hoot, why do you do it man?  Why?  You some kind of war junkie?  I won't say a goddam word.  Why?  They won't understand.  They won't understand why we do it.  They won't understand, it's about the men next to you.  And that's it.  That's all it is."  Hoot (Black Hawk Down)

Military Wisdom

• "Aim towards the Enemy."  Instruction printed on US Rocket Launcher
   
• "Cluster bombing from B-52s is very, very accurate.  The bombs are guaranteed to always hit the ground."  U.S.A.F. Ammo Troop
   
• "If the enemy is in range, so are you."  Infantry Journal
   
• "It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed."  U.S. Air Force Manual
   
• "Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo."  Infantry Journal
   
• "Tracers work both ways."  U.S. Army Ordnance
   
• "If your attack is going too well, you're walking into an ambush."  Infantry Journal
   
• "No combat ready unit has ever passed inspection."  Infantry Journal
   
• "Any ship can be a minesweeper... once."  Anonymous
   
• "Don't draw fire; it irritates the people around you."  Your Buddies

Cadence Calls

There are some great cadence calls listed on this website link. 

Here are a couple of the better ones:

Chief and Superman
Now Superman was the man of steel,
But he ain't no match for a Navy SEAL.
Now Chief and Supe, they got in a fight:
Chief hit him in the head with some kryptonite.
Supe fell to his knees in pain--
Now chief is dating Lois Lane.

Well Chief and Batman had one too,
Chief hit him in the head with his shoe.
Hit him in the temple with his left heel,
Now Chief is driving the Batmobile.

Had a Dog Whose Name Was Blue
I had a dog whose name was Blue,
He wanted to be a SEAL, too!
So I bought him a mask and four tiny little fins
Took him to the ocean and threw him in
Blue came back to my surprise
With a shark in his teeth and a gleam in his eyes.