Inspiring quotes.

I find these quotes inspiring for my training/competition shooting especially the ones in bold.

1. Do not think dishonestly.
2. The Way is in training.
3. Become aquainted with every art.
4. Know the Ways of all professions.
5. Distingquish between gain and loss in worldly matters.
6. Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything.
7. Perceive those things which cannot be seen.

8. Pay attention even to trifles.
9. Do nothing which is of no use. ------Miyamoto Musashi (The Ground Book, A Book of Five Rings)

Words of Wisdom…

“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

“I do not love the sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, I love only that which they defend.”

  • Faramir / Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)

“…the right to own and carry guns is clear. The Constitution says so. The right to keep and bear arms shall not be abridged. Keep means own and bear means carry and there’s no other way to look at it, and the courts that feel differently are the same courts that once said black people were property.”

  • Bob Lonsberry

“You know why there’s a second amendment? In case the government doesn’t obey the first one.”

  • Rush Limbaugh

“The only honorable response to violence is counterviolence”

“Experience is what you get instead of getting what you wanted.”

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.”

“Anybody who speaks badly of revenge ain’t never lost nothing important”
–James Crumley

“Liberty means responsibility, that is why most men dread it.”
–George Bernard Shaw

“one should forgive one’s enemies, but not before they are hanged”
–Heinrich Heine

“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

“Old age and Treachery beats youth and enthusiasm every time.” -Michael Harries

“When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.” -Chief Tecumseh

PEOPLE SLEEP PEACEFULLY IN THIER BED’S AT NIGHT ONLY, BECAUSE ROUGH MEN STAND READY TO DO VIOLENCE ON THIER BEHALF…G.ORWELL

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Ronald Reagan

My corollary to that:
“The only thing a bully understands is a good ass-whuppin’!”

“We’re in America and we’re shooting guns. Not much better than that.” Patrick A. Rogers

Bump…let here some more! :smiley:

“Nuts!!!”

Gen. Patton?

Message sent to the U.S.A. Commander of the encircled town of Bastogne:

The fortune of war is changing. This time the U.S.A. forces in and near Bastogne have been encircled by strong German armored units. More German armored units have crossed the river Our near Ortheuville, have taken Marche and reached St. Hubert by passing through Hompre-Sibret-Tillet. Libramont is in German hands.

There is only one possibility to save the encircled U.S.A. troops from total annihilation: that is the honorable surrender of the encircled town. In order to think it over a term of two hours will be granted beginning with the presentation of this note.

If this proposal should be rejected one German Artillery Corps and six heavy A. A. Battalions are ready to annihilate the U.S.A. troops in and near Bastogne. The order for firing will be given immediately after this two hours’ term.

All the serious civilian losses caused by this artillery fire would not correspond with the well known American humanity.

Reply sent to the German Commander:

NUTS!!!

General Anthony McAuliffe

BG General McAuliffe, acting commander 101st ABN, in response to a german commander, which was Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt if memory serves correctly, request that the american forces at bastonge surrender.

that same day, general McAuliffe also coined the phrase “we’re surrounded, ok that makes things simpler” from that came “we’re airborne, we’re supposed to be surrounded”.

“If I only did things that I was good at doing, I’d be limited to watching television and running my mouth.”

– Me on 29-APR-2006

(during a conversation why people won’t do or try activities if they don’t think they can “win” or be “the best”)

An oldie but a goody:

“There are people that make things happen and people that wonder what happened. Don’t be in the latter category.”

FYI: George Orwell’s actual quote is :

“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those that would do us harm.”

Timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursement to repel it.

my favorites:

“I’ve got a firm policy on gun control. If there’s a gun around, I want to be the one controlling it.” Clint Eastwood

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” Albert Einstein

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” Albert Einstein

those two from Albert I remembered and found here http://www.famousquotes.com/search.php?search=Einstein&field=LastName&paint=0 with about 229 others.

oh and the two in my signature, but I know not who said those.

Thomas Jefferson - “To George Washington, 1796: One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.”

i like this one

“There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.” George Washington

“Let your heart feel for the affliction and distress of everyone.” George Washington

“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” George Washington

I know I got carried away, I enjoy reading quotes

The one quote is by Patrick Henry. I looked it up to be sure. Famous Quotes has the following: Patrick Henry - “The gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace! But there is no peace. The war has actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that the gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”

And the one attributed to him that I saw right below it is: Patrick Henry - “The great object is that every man be armed.” Perfect for this site!

I loved the line from the movie “Patton.” They tell LtGen Patton that Bastogne is surrounded, and BGen McAuliffe has replied with “Nuts!”

Patton smiles and says “A man that eloquent must be saved.” :smiley:

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt

“The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.” - Unknown

“Winners do what losers aren’t willing to do.” - Unknown

“Effort equals results.” - Roger Penske

“A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.” - John Stuart Mill

Joe Mamma

Life is what happens while you are makeing other plans - The Movie “Kuffs”

When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all- Futurama