Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Douglas MacArthur Quotes
CompassionCourageHumanityResilience They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
DutyFarewellHonorReflectionService Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
ConflictFearHistoryPatriotismUnity Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
ConscienceCourageIndividualitySocietyStruggle The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
AcceptanceCourageFearMortalityResilience I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
CommunicationMedia InfluencePropagandaPublic OpinionWar and Politics One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
CourageHumilityResilienceSelf-awarenessStrength Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Economy and IndustryFear and PropagandaPolicy and SocietyPsychology and HysteriaWar and Peace It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
CourageFreedomIdentityPatriotismSacrifice Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
LuckPerseveranceProactivityResponsibilitySelf-Empowerment The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
ConflictMemoryRemembranceViolenceWar In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
GovernanceInternal ThreatsPatriotismSecurityVigilance I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
ContributionHonorPeaceProgressWar Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
HonorIdentityJourneyPatriotismSacrifice I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
EmergencyFearGovernment ControlManipulationPatriotism Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
CourageLeadershipMilitary ExcellencePatriotism I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
CountryDutyHonor Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
AccountabilityInfluenceLeadershipResponsibilityTeamwork A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
ConflictCourageLife and DeathRiskUncertainty In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.