crofrog
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This is prehaps a little off topic for this forum, but I feel quotes like this can help shape your mindset.
I'll start off with a file I keep on hand.
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle; be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray. And do thou, O prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God thrust into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world for the ruin of souls. Amen.
Psalm 91
"Though a thousand fall at my side, though ten thousand are dying around me, the evil will not touch me. I will see how the wicked are punished, but I will not share it."
Psalm 18:34-39...
“He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of
steel is broken by mine arms...I have pursued
mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did
I turn again till they were consumed. I have
wounded them that they were not able to rise:
they are fallen under my feet. For thou hast
girded me with strength unto the battle...”
Psalm 144:1
Blessed be the LORD, my rock, Who trains my hands for war, {And} my fingers for battle
Deu 32:41-42 - If I sharpen My flashing sword, And My hand takes hold on justice, I will render vengeance on My adversaries, And I will repay those who hate Me. I will make My arrows drunk with blood, And My sword will devour flesh, With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the long-haired leaders of the enemy.'
"We will grease the treads of our tanks with our enemies guts"
Gen. Patton
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
From Julius Ceaser by William Shakespeare"
I firmly belive that any man's finest hour --- his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle --- victorious"
- Vince Lombardi
"Focus on your one purpose"
"The fighter is to be always single-minded with one object in view: to fight, looking neither backward nor sidewise. To go straight forward in order to crush the enemy is all that is necessary for him."
"Anybody who speaks badly of revenge ain't never lost nothing important"
--James Crumley
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."
--Bruce Lee
"Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter"
--Ernest Hemingway.
The warrior's intention should be simply to grasp his sword and to die.
- Kiyomasa Kato (1562-1611)
To fight and conquer in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy with no fight at all, that's the highest skill.
- Sun Tsu
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.
Miyamoto Musashi
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
- General George Washington
"Given enough time, any man may master the physical. With enough knowledge, any man may become wise. It is the true warrior who can master both....and surpass the result." --Tien T'ai
One mind, any weapon - Hunter B. Armstrong
"Only a warrior chooses pacifism; others are condemned to it."
When the World is at Peace, a gentleman keeps his Sword by his side.
- Wu Tsu
The more you sweat in training, the less you will bleed in battle.
Victory goes to the one who has no thought of himself
- Shinkage School of Swordsmanship
"They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.
-- General Creighton W. Abrams
"Don't hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The Spartans do not enquire how many the enemy are, but where they are.
— Agis II, 427 B.C.
"Our archers are so numerous," said the envoy, "that the flight of their arrows darkens the sun."
"So much the better," replied Dienekes, a Spartan warrior, "for we shall fight them in the shade."
"And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,"
-Shakespeare
“I do not love the bright sword for it's sharpness, nor the arrow for it's swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend”
-J R Tolkien.
“A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.”
Warriors compress time; this is the sixth principle of the
art of stalking. Even an instant counts. In a battle for your
life, a second is an eternity, an eternity that may decide the
outcome. Warriors aim at succeeding, therefore they compress time.
Warriors don't waste an instant.
A warrior acknowledges his pain but he doesn't indulge in it.
The mood of the warrior who enters into the unknown is not one of
sadness; on the contrary, he's joyful because he feels humbled by
his great fortune, confident that his spirit is impeccable, and
above all, fully aware of his efficiency. A warrior's joyfulness
comes from having accepted his fate, and from having truthfully
assessed what lies ahead of him.
It is much easier for warriors to fare well under conditions of
maximum stress than to be impeccable under normal circumstances.
A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's
control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go.
That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind.
No one can push him, no one can make him do things against himself
or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive and
he survives in the best of all possible fashions.
Acts have power. Especially when the warrior acting knows that
those acts are his last battle. There is a strange consuming
happiness in acting with the full knowledge that whatever he is
doing may very well be his last act on earth.
--THE WARRIOR SAYINGS OF DON JUAN
Carlos Casteneda
We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
Flavius Vegetius Renatus (~375 AD), De Rei Militari
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun-tzu (~400 BC), The Art of War. Strategic Assessments
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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 and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving.
Ulysses S. Grant (1822 - 1885)
"Let's Roll"
-- Passenger of Flight 93
"A teacher is never a giver of truth---he is a guide, a pointer to the thruth that each student must find for himself. A good teacher is merely a catalyst."
--Bruce Lee
"Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely - lay your life before him."
--Bruce Lee
"Only the dead have seen the end of war"
--Plato
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil"
--Thomas Mann
"We are what we repeatedly do. EXCELLENCE then is not an act but a habit"
-Aristotle, 384-322 BC
"decide to be agressive enough, quickly enough."
"If you have a strong enough why you can bear almost any how"
--Nietzshe
"circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him."
--James Allan
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world."
… Mary Shafer, NASA Engineer
This is the law:
The purpose of fighting is to win.
There is no possible victory in defense.
The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either.
The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental.
- John Steinbeck
I'll start off with a file I keep on hand.
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle; be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray. And do thou, O prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God thrust into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world for the ruin of souls. Amen.
Psalm 91
"Though a thousand fall at my side, though ten thousand are dying around me, the evil will not touch me. I will see how the wicked are punished, but I will not share it."
Psalm 18:34-39...
“He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of
steel is broken by mine arms...I have pursued
mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did
I turn again till they were consumed. I have
wounded them that they were not able to rise:
they are fallen under my feet. For thou hast
girded me with strength unto the battle...”
Psalm 144:1
Blessed be the LORD, my rock, Who trains my hands for war, {And} my fingers for battle
Deu 32:41-42 - If I sharpen My flashing sword, And My hand takes hold on justice, I will render vengeance on My adversaries, And I will repay those who hate Me. I will make My arrows drunk with blood, And My sword will devour flesh, With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the long-haired leaders of the enemy.'
"We will grease the treads of our tanks with our enemies guts"
Gen. Patton
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
From Julius Ceaser by William Shakespeare"
I firmly belive that any man's finest hour --- his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle --- victorious"
- Vince Lombardi
"Focus on your one purpose"
"The fighter is to be always single-minded with one object in view: to fight, looking neither backward nor sidewise. To go straight forward in order to crush the enemy is all that is necessary for him."
"Anybody who speaks badly of revenge ain't never lost nothing important"
--James Crumley
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."
--Bruce Lee
"Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter"
--Ernest Hemingway.
The warrior's intention should be simply to grasp his sword and to die.
- Kiyomasa Kato (1562-1611)
To fight and conquer in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy with no fight at all, that's the highest skill.
- Sun Tsu
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.
Miyamoto Musashi
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
- General George Washington
"Given enough time, any man may master the physical. With enough knowledge, any man may become wise. It is the true warrior who can master both....and surpass the result." --Tien T'ai
One mind, any weapon - Hunter B. Armstrong
"Only a warrior chooses pacifism; others are condemned to it."
When the World is at Peace, a gentleman keeps his Sword by his side.
- Wu Tsu
The more you sweat in training, the less you will bleed in battle.
Victory goes to the one who has no thought of himself
- Shinkage School of Swordsmanship
"They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.
-- General Creighton W. Abrams
"Don't hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The Spartans do not enquire how many the enemy are, but where they are.
— Agis II, 427 B.C.
"Our archers are so numerous," said the envoy, "that the flight of their arrows darkens the sun."
"So much the better," replied Dienekes, a Spartan warrior, "for we shall fight them in the shade."
"And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,"
-Shakespeare
“I do not love the bright sword for it's sharpness, nor the arrow for it's swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend”
-J R Tolkien.
“A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.”
Warriors compress time; this is the sixth principle of the
art of stalking. Even an instant counts. In a battle for your
life, a second is an eternity, an eternity that may decide the
outcome. Warriors aim at succeeding, therefore they compress time.
Warriors don't waste an instant.
A warrior acknowledges his pain but he doesn't indulge in it.
The mood of the warrior who enters into the unknown is not one of
sadness; on the contrary, he's joyful because he feels humbled by
his great fortune, confident that his spirit is impeccable, and
above all, fully aware of his efficiency. A warrior's joyfulness
comes from having accepted his fate, and from having truthfully
assessed what lies ahead of him.
It is much easier for warriors to fare well under conditions of
maximum stress than to be impeccable under normal circumstances.
A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's
control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go.
That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind.
No one can push him, no one can make him do things against himself
or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive and
he survives in the best of all possible fashions.
Acts have power. Especially when the warrior acting knows that
those acts are his last battle. There is a strange consuming
happiness in acting with the full knowledge that whatever he is
doing may very well be his last act on earth.
--THE WARRIOR SAYINGS OF DON JUAN
Carlos Casteneda
We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
Flavius Vegetius Renatus (~375 AD), De Rei Militari
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun-tzu (~400 BC), The Art of War. Strategic Assessments
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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 and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving.
Ulysses S. Grant (1822 - 1885)
"Let's Roll"
-- Passenger of Flight 93
"A teacher is never a giver of truth---he is a guide, a pointer to the thruth that each student must find for himself. A good teacher is merely a catalyst."
--Bruce Lee
"Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely - lay your life before him."
--Bruce Lee
"Only the dead have seen the end of war"
--Plato
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil"
--Thomas Mann
"We are what we repeatedly do. EXCELLENCE then is not an act but a habit"
-Aristotle, 384-322 BC
"decide to be agressive enough, quickly enough."
"If you have a strong enough why you can bear almost any how"
--Nietzshe
"circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him."
--James Allan
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world."
… Mary Shafer, NASA Engineer
This is the law:
The purpose of fighting is to win.
There is no possible victory in defense.
The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either.
The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental.
- John Steinbeck
