"There's a mindset of flexibility and adaptability that comes with us. We don't mind hardship. We don't mind somebody saying, 'Go in and do this nasty job.' Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps."

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Source : "Reshaping Your Corps". Interview with Bob Drury, www.menshealth.com. June 2, 2011.

James F. Amos

#Jobs Quotes #Marine Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger.”
“An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.”
“Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors.”
“I just wanted to play a cowboy for a long time.”
“A good beginning is of great importance.”
“The visions of the INFJs tend to concern human welfare, and their contributions are likely to be made independent of a mass movement.”

Source : Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (2010). “Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type”, p.115, Hachette UK
“I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.”

Source : Speech in the Senate (1848)
“I like 'Zorro.' I like people you can believe that don't have those stupid powers. That is the beauty of Zorro. He's just a guy working for the people, to save the people.”

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