The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. Always do more than is required of you. If a man has done his best, what else is there?

It is absurd to believe that soldiers who cannot be made to wear the proper uniform can be induced to move forward in battle. Officers who fail to perform their duty by correcting small violations and in enforcing proper conduct are incapable of leading.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.

Death can be more exciting than life.