If you knew you were going to be in the fight of your life today, would you have trained harder yesterday?" -- Unknown

Humor quote of the day for me
 

I came into work with a headache today, and mentioned that I was heading down to the nurses station to pick up some asprin.
One of the guys on the outgoing shift who just turned 20 in Feb. said to me..."You know..In my years of experience I've found that pain can be ignored....":D
I was laughing the whole way down to policing up my asprin..

"I never saw a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself"

- D.H. Lawrence

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."

Tommy Lasorda

Viktor Frankl from Man's Search for Meaning:
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle

The Gettysburg Address
 

"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced." - Abraham Lincoln

The best speeches need no further explanation.
http://showcase.netins.net/web/creat...gettysburg.htm

you will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

So I kneed him hard in his junk, and asked him if he wanted me to pick up a couple aspiring for him.

Live right so when it comes your time to die,
you will not be like those whose hearts are filled with
the fear of death, who weep and pray for a little more
time to live their lives over again in a different way.

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

-Tecumseh

Mindsetr
 

" Truth is a demure lady, much to lady like to knock you on the head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but the people must want her and seek her out."
- William F. Buckley, Jr.

"Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity."
-Aristotle-

" It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
-Seneca-






Best Regards

Noslack

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."
- George Bernard Shaw

Not sure where it came from but it helps me every time I feel like stopping:

"I do it because I can, I can because I want to, I want to because you said I couldn’t"

A few more that motivate me:

"I'm not telling you its going to be easy, but I'm saying it will be worth"

"It's a lifestyle - train like there's no finish line."

"Only the weak attempts to accomplish what he knows he can already achieve." - Stella Juarez

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on.~Walter Lippman

This speaks to the legacy left behind by many great leaders. While many of them are gone and many are still here, we continue to find ourselves striving to live up to the standards they previously set before us.

"Manners are not idle but the fruit of loyal nature and noble mind."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies, justice will be done. "

"We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail."

"On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who, at the Dawn of Victory, sat down to wait, and waiting--died"

-George W. Cecil

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. - Samuel Adams

It may sound corny, but I get my highest inspiration from my heroes. These quotes exemplify what I admire and try to emulate in a hero.



"The characteristic of genuine heroism is persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson



"The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper."
- Aristotle

Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it -Prefontaine

"Resolve is a breeze when one’s commitment has never been tested. It is when the fear, chaos, and stress of a crisis hits that true resolve is revealed."

"These are Sparta's walls."

When asked why Sparta lacked fortifications, King Agesilaus' pointed to his men.

The Bear Pit
 

This forum is "The Bear Pit" it deals with "Mindset", a warriors mindset.

If your post is now missing it's because it had nothing to do with that mindset.

Team Sergeant

Carlos (Hatchcock) recalled, "My Daddy told me a long time ago, when I was a little feller, he said, 'Son, there is no such word as 'can't'. Some things are a little harder to accomplish than others, but the word 'can't' does not stay in my vocabulary. Don't let it stay in yours.' And, since then, I've used the same thing. There's no such word as 'can't' - and my guys quit using it too. They'd say, 'but, Gunny, I can't do that,' and I'd say 'WHAT?? What was that four-letter word?' If they used it again, they'd be doing push-ups all day. There is NOTHING you cannot do."

Fight in the Dog
 

"Its not the dog in the fight, but the fight in the dog..." -COL J. Moroney

What the Bulldog used to tell me when I was weak and sniveling...

Actual quote is from Mark Twain: "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."

Concerning doubters and scoffers.

When someone says: "You can't do that!"
What they really mean is: "I can't do that."

Interesting Words?
 

1. Whiskey makes you think you are smarter than you really are?

2. Don't run out of ammunition in a gun fight?

3: Reload when you want to; Not when you have to?

Advice from Team Sgt. Richard E Pegram Det. A-333 June,1964.

You usually think of at least a hundred reasons why you should stop. But there is only one reason why you should keep going.

"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Ike taking responsibility
 

On 5 June 1944, Gen Eisenhower penciled a note of responsibility should the Normandy invasion fail.

Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air [force] and the navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

Who today among our leaders would do such a thing, and do it with eloquence and brevity?

“The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.” Carlos Cansteneda

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, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
-Ronald Reagan

"Gentlemen," said Washington, "you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I have not only grown gray but almost blind in the service of my country." G. Washington
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
- General George Patton Jr

"The courage of the soldier is heightened by the knowledge of his profession." -- Flavius Vegetius Renatus

My center gives way, my right is pushed back. Situation excellent, I am attacking- Ferdinand Foch

Youth
 

Good advice! :lifter

You need to be mentally prepared to prefer dying on pain rather than losing. -Bart Gordon

What you need to realize is that it is just a feeling. Feelings shouldn't get in the way of what you ought to be doing.
-George Malley on tiredness (mostly a paraphrase)

Gates of Fire
 

“A king does not abide within his tent while his men bleed and die upon the field. A king does not dine while his men go hungry, nor sleep when they stand at watch upon the wall. A king does not command his men’s loyalty through fear nor purchase it with gold; he earns their love by the sweat of his own back and the pains he endures for their sake. That which comprises the harshest burden, a king lifts first and sets down last. A king does not require service of those he leads but provides it to them. He serves them, not they him.”

Steven Pressfield: Gates of Fire


I won't make a habit of posting often.

One from Reagan
 

"There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit."
- From a plaque that was on President Reagan's desk

Saw this the other day and liked it:


"WHATEVER DOESN'T KILL ME…HAD BETTER START RUNNING"

"Big 'possum clime li'l tree."

Uncle Remus

Gates of Fire
 

"Listen to me, boy. Only gods and heroes can be brave in isolation. A man may call upon courage only one way, in the ranks with his brothers-in-arms, the line of his tribe and his city. Most piteous of all states under heaven is that of a man alone, bereft of the gods of his home and his polis." Excerpt from the novel Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield

"...But for the warrior, the seasons are not marked by these sweet measures nor by the calendared years themselves, but by the battles. Campaigns fought and comrades lost; trials of death survived. Clashes and conflicts from which time effaces all superficial recall, leaving only the fields themselves and their names, which achieve in the warrior's memory a stature ennobled beyond all other modes of commemoration, purchased with the holy coin of blood and paid for with the lives of beloved brothers-in-arms. As the priest with his graphis and tablet of wax, the infantryman, too, has his scription. His history is carved upon his person with the stylus of steel, his alphabet engraved with spear and sword indelibly upon his flesh."

---Dienekes
Gates of Fire