Be an example to your men

"Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don't in your endurance of fatigue and privation. always be tactful and well-mannered and teach your subordinates to do the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide."
- Field Marshall Erwin Rommel

Any idiot can face a crisis...

"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out."
- Anton Chekhov

Trials and tribulations are mandatory...

"Trials and tribulations are mandatory in life; pain and sufferage are optional."
- Anonymous

This is my body...

"This is my body. And I can do whatever I want to it. I can push it. Study it. Tweak it. Listen to it. Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?"
- Lance Armstrong

Out of the night that covers me...

"Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul
In the fell clutch of circumstances
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of change
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the year
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul."
- William Ernest Henley

To win without risk...

"To win without risk is to triumph without glory."
- Pierre Corneille

Many persons have a wrong idea...

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
- Helen Keller

Reading is to the mind...

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
- Joseph Addison

I knew a simple soldier boy...

"I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.
In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you’ll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go."
- Siegfried Sassoon

Why of course the people don't want war...

"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
- Hermann Goering at his Nuremburg trial.

A hard man...

"A hard man is good to find."
- Kitten aka Blue Eyed Cat

If you drink...

"If you drink to forget, don't forget to drink."
- Mark Base

I long to accomplish...

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
- Helen Keller

No matter where you go...

"No matter where you go, there you are"
- Buckaroo Banzai

There are three kinds of lies...

"There are three kinds of lies - lies, damn lies, and statistics"
- Benjamin Disraeli

Be not so bigoted...

"Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth."
- Johann Georg von Zimmermann

Ah, women...

"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

War is progress...

"War is progress, peace is stagnation."
- Hegel

For every complex problem...

"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
- H.L. Mencken