Inspiring Veteran Quotes

These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam. ~ Neil Sheehan

We don't attack any veteran, at all, ever, for their service record. We thank them. And the fact that somebody wanted to do that for political gain, shows the desperation of which some people unfortunately in the Republican Party want to keep and seize power. ~ Matt Shea

Congress should stop treating veterans like they're asking for a hand out when it comes to the benefits they were promised, and they should realize that, were it not for these veterans, there would be nothing to hand out. ~ Nick Lampson

Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days ... or a few months after childbirth. ~ Richard J. Codey

Inspiring others is the pathway to your own discoveries ~ Robin Craig Clark

Old Veteran also loved to go on adventures. On one such adventure, a coyote attacked Old Veteran. ~ Jeanie Vant

I think we are looked upon as a veteran band. ~ Lou Gramm

The other veteran said Listen, mate, everybody gets scared, and anybody says he don't is a damn liar ~ Eugene B. Sledge

As a Korean War Veteran, I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention. ~ Charles B. Rangel

Every veteran is a hero. ~ Joe Walsh

Sachin Tendulkar has often reminded me of a veteran army colonel who has many medals on his chest to show how he has conquered bowlers all over the world ~ Allan Donald

We are all dishonored when a veteran sleeps on the same streets that he or she has defended. We are all dishonored when a veteran's family has to live in a shelter while he or she is out fighting for us. WE NEED TO FIX THAT! ~ Tammy Duckworth

Veteran art creates a meeting place between veterans and civilians, or simply between veterans with different experiences. ~ Phil Klay

Those who cannot bravely face danger are
the slaves of their attackers. ~ Aristotle.

How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician. ~ Henry Miller

The civilian wants to respect what the veteran has gone through. The veteran wants to protect memories that are painful and sacred to him from outside judgment. ~ Phil Klay

A Veteran is the one who takes up arms to save you before the ones who take up arms to kill you can succeed. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu ~ Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

More importantly, if you are in a position to hire, hire a veteran. They will be the best employees you have. ~ Eric Shinseki

Go to war, come home as a sickened veteran, and be denied your earned disability payments to live a life of extreme poverty and hardship. ~ Steven Magee

Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran. But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, 'Hi' to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation. ~ Al Franken

As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time. You can be told that reading Victor Hugo will sap your will to live, but you can't understand what it means until you've read a few chapters and your eyes are glazed over and someone has to revive you with a defibrillator. ~ Kevin Hearne

I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode. ~ Maya Lin

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge. ~ Michael B. Jordan

Think the highest thought you can think,
Feel into it, then expand it.
Do this every morning. ~ Blythe Ayne

If the veteran only has a year or two left on his contract, teams are hesitant to trade a draft pick for a player in that position. Why pay a big cap number for a guy you might only have for a short time And then there's the reality that the veteran and the agent would probably want to be on the open market anyway, figuring they'll get more money that way. The system is not conducive to making a deal for a veteran. ~ Marty Hurney

I was a veteran, before I was a teenager. ~ Michael Jackson

Any veteran can tell you it is already hard enough to see a doctor down at the VA and get the health care they were promised when they signed up to serve this country. ~ Nick Lampson

The last point that I'd make. I had a hearing. I had all of the veterans groups in front of me. And I said to them, tell me when a veteran gets in to the V.A., understanding there are waiting lines and real problems, when a veteran gets into the system, is the quality of care good? ~ Bernie Sanders

There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it. ~ Charles Guggenheim

I'm hoping to learn something new every day. It sounds corny, but I really do come in here every day, listening and talking with the veteran guys and seeing what I can absorb. ~ Justin Verlander

I love that feeling of inspiring other women. ~ Cheryl Cole

After several years in the league, when a player becomes a vested veteran in the NFL, they play under a different set of rules. For instance, if you cut a vested veteran mid-season and they don't get picked up by another team, you owe them the remainder of their salary. ~ Brendan Daly

He didn't like very many people any more, or very many things either. He preferred not to be this way, but there it was, he was like that. His cynicism, a veteran's cynicism, was a thing that disturbed him all the time. ~ David Guterson

As a soldier and combat veteran, I believe American military forces should only be used in the defense and furtherance of our nation's vital interests. ~ Joni Ernst

There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better. ~ R. Lee Ermey

I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that. ~ Barry Zito

I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper. ~ Henry Rollins

Any conversation I have with anybody that's real is always revealing and inspiring. ~ Spike Jonze

I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring. ~ Laurie Anderson

John Floridis was very inspiring. He plays so well. ~ Shawn Colvin

For hard resets, conventions and conferences can be inspiring. ~ Kelly Sue DeConnick

As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan. ~ Barbara Lee

Were there atheists in foxholes during World War II? Of course, as can be verified by my dogtags . . . A veteran of Omaha Beach in 1944, I insisted upon including 'None' instead of P, C, or J as my religious affiliation. ~ Warren Allen Smith

But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots and medics. ~ Tim Holden

The OWN network is all about inspiring and enlightening. ~ Kym Whitley

There is light in every soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The secret to making your holiday inspiring is actually quite simple. Be inspiring yourself. As with any change, you must be the change you want to see in others. ~ Deepak Chopra

The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water's edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks. ~ Ernest Thompson Seton

We have a lot of young players and some veteran players who make you feel good and give you a lot of tips. They always want to make sure you're ready to play. ~ Carlos Gonzalez

For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future. ~ Winston Churchill

I don't really know Hollywood, but living and shooting in L.A. was very motivating, inspiring. The lights, the extras, their American faces, the energy, the Orpheum Theatre. It was all very inspiring. ~ Jean Dujardin

There's so many inspiring people out there. ~ John Mayer

Group Meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual aspirants as well as the veteran meditators. Meditating together increases the degree of Self-realization of each member of the group by the law of invisible vibratory exchange of group magnetism. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless. ~ Rachael Taylor

Keep encouraging one another with affectionate love. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When you date someone who loves the outdoors, it's inspiring. ~ Nikki Reed

I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up. Now that I'm an old, old veteran-age 29-I do things a lot differently. I don't go to the gentlemen's clubs anymore. I had to slow that down. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Any great and inspiring leader or organization that ever existed set out to do something completely unrealistic. ~ Simon Sinek

There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par. ~ Mark Twain

Hollywood is a very inspiring place. ~ Donatella Versace

I can't believe my music isn't inspiring you. Guys who play guitar are supposed to be hot, right? I know I find hotness inspiring. ~ Nyrae Dawn

The greatest sacred sayings; I love you. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It was Harry Patch, who was the last living World War I veteran; and by veteran I mean someone who actually fought in the war, he didn't just happen to be in the army at that time, in the Great War. And when the Iraq War started, he was interviewed, and they said, well what do you think of this? And he said, in a very sad voice, "Well, that's why my mates died. We thought we were going to end all that sort of thing." ~ Jacqueline Winspear

I don't know what to do if I am not inspiring some sort of false fascination. ~ Elizabeth Wurtzel

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring. ~ Dodie Smith

We live in a difficult but inspiring world, and there is so much out there that I want to record. ~ Martin Parr

I don't see a day when teenagers don't read. They are very enthusiastic. That is so inspiring to me. ~ Lisa McMann

Little Voice is a story where every reader, young or old, can feel inspired by its positive, inspiring and motivating message. ~ Amanda Bernardo

Veteran print editors and reporters at places like the 'Times' and 'The New Yorker' manage to feed and clothe their families without costing their companies a million bucks a month, and they produce a great deal more valuable reporting and analysis than the network news stars do. ~ Eric Alterman

You can take the best team and the worst team and line them up and you would find very little physical difference. You would find an emotional difference. The wining team has a dedication. It will have a core group of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat. ~ Merlin Olsen

I'm a veteran, and I come from a family of veterans and people who served in that war. And the stories that I heard were a hell of a lot different than the movies that I was seeing, so I wanted to make a movie about the people that were really there. ~ David Ayer

Keep your mindset strong, your heart pure, your intentions kind and your dreams big. ~ Nikki Rowe

Don't ever give space for anyone to treat you like an option. Remember, you're more than that. ~ SoulWanderer_

Rest, Recreated, Refreshed and Refuel! ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Everyone in New York is fluid and thinking and inspiring each other. ~ Ilana Glazer

As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out. ~ Allen West

I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on. ~ Rami Malek

When you first start doing it, being on tour is inspiring, because you've never been anywhere. ~ Dean Ween

I'm not going to be one of those amputees who dances and everyone finds inspiring. I'm not inspiring. I'm just me. ~ Katherine Locke

A youth loathes nothing more than his own callowness. Experience is his object. Experience, however ghastly, for the lad longs before all for the lined face and chiseled squint of the veteran. Even his submissions to terror, the very shit with which he paints his thighs under fire is trophy to him; he points it out to his comrades, laughing in the aftercourse of action as if it were a decoration for valour, for it makes him a salt, a veteran, an old hand. ~ Steven Pressfield

What is GRACE?An individual, inspiring and virtuous impulse, that streams the spirit with life! ~ Angie Karan

I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring. ~ Kathryn Bigelow

Most people have an abundance of dreams, but lack the courage to follow them. Help them find that courage by inspiring them with yours. ~ Steve Maraboli

In ten minutes they will have arrived on campus. George will have to be George; the George they have named and will recognise. So now he consciously applies himself to thinking their thoughts, getting into their mood. With the skill of a veteran, he rapidly puts on the psychological makeup for this role he must play. ~ Christopher Isherwood

I definitely enjoy getting to know people I find inspiring. ~ Spike Jonze

Nelson Mandela is awe inspiring - a person who really sacrificed for what he believed in. I feel truly humbled by him. ~ Annie Lennox

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. ~ Carl Sandburg

The Futures Bright, Wear Your Sunglasses ~ Ian Somerhalder

Toes are scarce among veteran blubber-room men. ~ Herman Melville

Gertrude was a veteran of the love wars. ~ Jerry Pinto

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane ... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Not only is the experience of learning inspiring, the results are fulfilling. ~ Elaina Marie

Our service for one another is a service to humanity. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The transpersonal is more awe-inspiring, more exciting than the thing we confuse it for. ~ Ben Lerner

A veteran of the gender wars. ~ Lorrie Moore

So it doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring. ~ Bela Fleck

Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the music academies generations of docile workers for the music industry. What can you expect from downtrodden workers who see music as a type of profession, like stenography, and not an act of creation that by its nature is subversive? ~ Itay Talgam

Chanel is a brand that is so inspiring. ~ Gia Coppola