My Favorite Quotes From People I Know Who Have Served This Country by Michael “MJ The Terrible” Johnson:
“How do you get through things? Sheer perseverance! Keep going when you have to. Find a way. You can. You must.” Avril Haines
“Try to work it out with words before turning to all out war. If words fail and war breaks out, then war until the war is over and you are the winner.” William Burns
“Don’t be demoralized by mistakes that set you back from your goal, because some of the best stories ever told are comeback stories. If this world has taught us anything, it’s that you can come back from anything.” Peter Gil
“Cheating might give you a short-term thrill, but you could be throwing away something very special you can never get back. Don’t mess up a good thing for a fling.” Mia Cutler
“It feels like we are a family. We are a family of brothers and sisters from different mothers and all colors.” Chris Hubbard
“So mote it be” (So may it be) – Shirley C. Johnson
“Sometimes you gotta just suck it up and push through. It is what is until it isn’t.” Pete Dowdle
“We know there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns; the ones we don’t know we don’t know.” Donald Rumsfeld
“Anything is possible until your heart stops beating.” Brittany White (aka DUBS)
“Winning a battle is not winning a war. Battles are important to win, but the winner of the war is what counts in the end.” General David Petraeus
“Be your best and do your best. That’s the best you can do. End of story.” Brittany White
“Regarding Marriage- Have it all under one roof. Cheating will crush not only your family, but it can poison everything else in your life as well.” Eric Fanning
“The formula for building trust- Truth and loyalty over a long enough period of time.” Marcus Jennings
“As in all things, sequence matters.” Zhang Ying
“No matter what your story is, somebody’s got it worse. Remember that when you are feeling down.” Big J. Kosta
“Don’t quit! Adjust, adapt, and overcome!” Eric Fanning
“Duplicate, don’t Innovate. Do what works! You don’t have to re-create the wheel. I appreciate the fact that you might want to create your own system, but you shouldn’t! Not until you have mastered a proven strategy. If you want to get creative after you have mastered what will feed you, then get creative.” Derron Cook
“Sometimes you don’t see what you learned until you make it to where you are going.” Gary McKinnon
“They say you learn more from losing than from winning. What I learned from losing, was that I hate it. Now I refuse to lose. Lesson learned!” Kristi Jennings aka Kristi Ihaveonenamelikemadonnabitch
“How to move up the corporate ladder, boiled down into one sentence- When you take care of business, the business will take care of you.” Derron Cook
“Wrong, right, good, bad. Most things in life are our choice to do or not do. There is power in that. I don’t think most people get how much power they have to improve their lives, but I wish they did.” Pete Dowdle
“I believe in being an American. Not an American’t, or an Americon.” Eric Fanning
“The good outweighs the bad in most people. It’s what keeps the world from imploding.” Eric Fanning
“Dwelling on past negative events can prevent us from creating a better future. Focus forward!” Eric Fanning
“This is an “Ifawado” situation. Ifawado, stands for if you want you will do.” Gina Haspel
“When you are the winner you get a trophy, because you won a sporting or competitive competition. When you are awarded the Distinguished Intelligence Cross, you are given an award, because you did the things that had to be done, that often times included grave sacrifice, and irreversible consequences.” Gina Haspel
“Don’t ever be double dumb. Too dumb to know that you caused a problem, and too dumb to fix it.” Gina Haspel
“Here is what’s not an option- quitting! Everything else is on the table.” Chris Hubbard
“During my long military career, I have been the first black person to achieve many things. I am proud to break down barriers, but don’t only refer to me as the first black person to do this or achieve that. I earned my achievements by being the best. I just happen to be black. If I had been any other color, I would have earned the same achievements by being the best.” Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III
“I am driven. It keeps me on top of my shit.” Brittany White
In Loving Memory of Captain Raymond Lutz – https://www.therealmjtheterrible.com/in-loving-memory-of-captain-raymond-lutz/
