We have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another.
BILL MAULDINIf you’re a leader, you don’t push wet spaghetti, you pull it.
More Bill Mauldin Quotes
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You have to convince your players that the only reason a play failed was that they didn’t execute properly.
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If you want to take the meaning of the word integrity and reduce it to its simplest terms, you’d conclude that a man of integrity is a promise keeper. When he gives you his word. You can take it to the bank. His word is good.
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I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.
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A soldier’s life revolves around his mail. Like many others, I’ve been able to follow my kid’s progress from the day he was born until now he is able to walk and talk a little, and although I have never seen him I know him very well.
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True worship is not just an emotional experience. It reaches to the very depths of our souls and touches every aspect of our being
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But someone once described the contrast between a good life and a godly life as the difference between the top of the ocean and the bottom.
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What you are about to hear is God’s word to the men of this nation. We are going to war as of tonight. We have divine power – that is our weapon. We will not compromise. Wherever truth is at risk, in the schools or legislature, we are going to contend for it. We will win.
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Oh, sure, the stupid bastard was crazy. He was insane. He thought he was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn’t like that attitude, but I certainly respected his theories and the techniques he used to get his men out of their foxholes.
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Peace’ is when nobody’s shooting. A ‘just peace’ is when our side gets what it wants.
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When we realize finally that we aren’t God’s given children, we’ll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.
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I’ve never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!
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If you’re a leader, you don’t push wet spaghetti, you pull it. The U.S. Army still has to learn that. The British understand it. Patton understood it. I always admired Patton.
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My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: “The hell this ain’t the most important hole in the world . I’m in it.
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When you’re born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God’s terms.
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Rom. 8:29 tells us what our purpose is – to conform to the image of Jesus Christ, and that singularly helps me keep a focus. That’s really what I’m called to do, and I should be gradually growing and changing. He should be increasing, and I should be decreasing.
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