Mark W. Clark famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I really like guys who have confidence, but not the cocky over-the-top confidence.
I like to be confident, absolutely not cocky, and I like to have that healthy fear of my opponents. It keeps me on my toes.
I don't want to say I'd wipe everybody out, because that's cocky. But they wouldn't beat me.
Competition is healthy, if you can turn it off and on. When someone gets too cocky in victory, that can ruin the positive aspect.
Re. the Caribbean Conservation Corporation Everybody in the organization has subscribed to the original concept that its most important attributes are a single-minded resistance to any distraction from the central aim of keeping watch over the Tortuguero nesting colony and a determination to make it the most thoroughly studied sea turtle population in the world.
I can now say without hesitation the Marine Corps was the best foster home I ever had.
A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors.
Combat is my profession and fighting was a great way to maintain a combat mindset while preparing to lead Marines in war.
Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.
There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.

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