Carlos > Carlos's Quotes

“No one on their deathbed asks for bank statements, trophies, or mementos. They ask for family and friends.”
― John Lovell, The Warrior Poet Way: A Guide to Living Free and Dying Well

“Someone who never has fun with money misses the point. Someone who never invests money will never have any. Someone who never gives is a monkey with his hand in a bottle.”
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

“If you haven't read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren't broad enough to sustain you.”
― Jim Mattis, Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead

“Reading is an honor and a gift from a warrior or historian who—a decade or a thousand decades ago—set aside time to write. He distilled a lifetime of campaigning in order to have a “conversation” with you.”
― Jim Mattis, Call Sign Chaos

“You don’t always control your circumstances, but you can always control your response.”
― Jim Mattis, Call Sign Chaos

“If you’re losing your cool, you are losing. If you are triggered, it is because you allowed someone else to dictate your emotional state. If you are outraged, it is because you lack discipline and self-control. These are personal defeats, not the fault of anyone else. And each defeat shapes who you are as a person, and in the collective sense, who we are as a people.”
― Dan Crenshaw, Fortitude: Resilience in the Age of Outrage

“A good wife is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her and he will have no lack of gain. She brings him good and not harm, all the days of her life.”
― Harold G. Moore, We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam

“I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

“If you don’t find the time, if you don’t do the work, you don’t get the results.”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger, The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding: The Bible of Bodybuilding, Fully Updated and Revised

“I love it when people say that something can’t be done. That’s when I really get motivated; I like to prove them wrong.”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

“Those who love freedom must be ready to defend it.”
― John Lovell, The Warrior Poet Way: A Guide to Living Free and Dying Well

“To be a good man, you must become a paradox: strong but self-controlled, violent but gentle, ready to go to war one minute and prepared to give piggyback rides the next. This kind of man is fierce in word and deed while remaining compassionate and humble. He is fully soldier, fully lover, whole man.”
― John Lovell, The Warrior Poet Way: A Guide to Living Free and Dying Well

“As long as a man trades his warrior instinct for entertainment, his soul will not be satisfied. He will be perpetually bored, searching for a way to kill time and quell his longings. A man who’s consumed by his mission, however, who knows what life is about and his part to play, doesn’t need a distraction. His life is the adventure.”
― John Lovell, The Warrior Poet Way: A Guide to Living Free and Dying Well

“The worst enemy we face in life is always ourselves. You are the biggest obstacle between where you are now and the courageous life you are capable of living,”
― John Lovell, The Warrior Poet Way: A Guide to Living Free and Dying Well

“There’s never been a noble war except in the history books and propaganda movies. It’s a bloody, dirty, cruel, costly mistake in almost every case, as it was in this war that would end so badly. But the young soldiers can be and often are noble, selfless, and honorable. They don’t fight for a flag or a president or mom and apple pie. When it comes down to it they fight and die for each other, and that is reason enough for them, and for me.”
― Harold G. Moore, We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam

“The discipline that makes an effective leader begins in the home.”
― Harold G. Moore, Hal Moore on Leadership: Winning When Outgunned and Outmanned

“There is no glory in war—only good men dying terrible deaths.”
― Harold G. Moore, We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam

“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.”
― Jim Mattis

“What do I know? Who needs to know? Have I told them?”
― Jim Mattis, Call Sign Chaos

“The first is competence. Be brilliant in the basics. Don’t dabble in your job; you must master it. That applies at every level as you advance. Analyze yourself. Identify weaknesses and improve yourself. If you’re not running three miles in eighteen minutes, work out more; if you’re not a good listener, discipline yourself; if you’re not swift at calling in artillery fire, rehearse. Your troops are counting on you. Of course you’ll screw up sometimes; don’t dwell on that. The last perfect man on earth died on a cross long ago—just be honest and move on, smarter for what your mistake taught you.”
― Jim Mattis, Call Sign Chaos

“Field Marshal Slim wrote in World War II: “As officers,” he wrote, “you will neither eat, nor drink, nor sleep, nor smoke, nor even sit down until you have personally seen that your men have done those things. If you will do this for them, they will follow you to the end of the world. And, if you do not, I will break you.”
― Jim Mattis, Call Sign Chaos

“If you don’t like problems, stay out of leadership.”
― Jim Mattis, Call Sign Chaos

“And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos