TUESDAYS QUEST........MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES / STORIES! ( RANDOM POST! )

[armywag]

Hi Guys

Apologies for the totally random post!

My OH is doing army officer training at Sandhurst and we were told we could send them letters.

Letters that are motivational, positive, encouraging and funny.

I was wondering if anyone knew of any good quotes or stories that tick the above boxes?

My OH has a great sense of humour and loves tradition so I thought I would send him some old military stories that he could read or include some funny quotes in the letters!

I just can’t find any..... Any ideas?

 

[starsky]

My two favourites. Both in my sig

 

[Skippydo]

Try this

http://www.oldsweat.co.uk/

 

[Rhandir]

One of my favourites is "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams" by Eleanor Roosevelt.

One from, I believe, a General in the American Civil War "Don't worry, they couldn't hit a barn door from .........."

"The secret of success is the ability to survive failure"

 

[kerilli]

i'm not sure if this qualifies, but it's military, and it cracks me up. from an American lady who is a member of my online bookgroup.
Forgot to mention about dad -- he was in the Marines for 20 years, starting
in 1942. After WWII, he was sent to some survival school. They dropped the
candidates in the woods for 2 weeks with a knife and a pack of matches.
Everyone else came back after 2 weeks anywhere from 15-20 pounds lighter.
Dad had gained 7 pounds. Unlike the others, he didn't turn his nose up at
grubs and earthworms, wove nets to catch fish, and tackled a raccoon and ate
that.
When he was in his 50s, and the president of a small company, he once ran
over a raccoon by accident. In the theory of waste not, want not, he
skinned it and cooked it, then made a big pot of spaghetti sauce and brought
it into the office the next day, along with several loaves of Italian bread.
Everyone happily ate the sauce, asking him what the unusual flavor was. He
only told them after they went back for seconds.
When I was 12, we went to the hardware store. Before we left, he asked me
to check for the mail, which wasn't there, and when we got back, he sent me
back to get the mail. I told him that there was a dead squirrel in the road
that hadn't been there before we went to the hardware store. Delighted, dad
bounded to the end of the driveway, grabbed the squirrel (body intact, head
run over), and proceed to skin it and stew it.
We learned young that when dad made dinner, you always checked the trash for
store meat wrappers, and if there weren't any ... well, you had to proceed
with caution.

might make the food at Sandhurst look a bit more appealing, anyway!

From a schoolfriend of mine who was (maybe still is?!) an instructor at Sandhurst...

when the trainee Gurkhas arrive, one of the first things they used to get them to do was to line up along the side of the swimming pool. RSM orders them all to jump in. To a man, they did. Not one of them could swim, but none hesitated. I was told that's what made them such great soldiers.
Anecdotal so may not be true!

when my dad was in the U.S. Army he made the mistake of sniggering in line when the command "Turn to your right, W.. R... I... T... E..." was called out.
this is definitely true, btw.

The one about the squaddie who remembered to obey the command to shake out boots for scorpions, and then stamped on said scorpion with his only-wearing-a-sock foot...

sorry if those aren't the sort of thing you're looking for!