The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURNobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
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They must be resolved on the highest plane of national interest if our course is to prove sound and our future protected. I trust, therefore, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the considered viewpoint of a fellow American.
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Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.
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Security lies in our ability to produce.
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Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair; these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.
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Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
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While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other.
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The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on
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In war there is no substitute for victory.
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The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
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There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
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We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.
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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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