“A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors.”

As God once said, and I think rightly.

Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset – its flexibility.

On the eve of this great adventure I send my best wishes to every soldier in the Allied team. To us is given the honour of striking a blow for freedom which will live in history; and in the better days that lie ahead men will speak with pride of our doings.

Im my profession you have to mystify the enemy.

If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and lose it quickly.

The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners.

I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.

My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.

Let no man surrender so long as he is unwounded and can fight.

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.

The first duty of a leader is opti­mism. How does your sub­or­di­nate feel after meet­ing with you? Does he feel uplifted? If not, you are not a leader.

In Kurdistan, theres a lot of hardship – a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.

I remember people who’d had a lot of hardship during the war. They’d thought we’d won.

According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.

The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle.

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

The favor for the favor or One hand washes the other.

Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicit