Best Drill Instructor Quotes

#1. Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.

R. Lee Ermey

#2. Do not be shy to call customers who owe you money. It works.

Felix Dennis

#3. One thing a goal must do is fill us with positive emotion when we think about it. The more intensely we feel about a goal the more progressively we'll move toward it.

Earl Nightingale

#4. I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.

Marilyn Monroe

#5. Greetings," he said. His tone admitted of no weakness whatsoever. "I am Drill Instructor (Slaughterhouse) Larry Southard. For my sins, I have been placed in charge of the latest intake of prospective marines. With

Christopher G. Nuttall

#6. Scientific progress is the discovery of a more and more comprehensive simplicity ... The previous successes give us confidence in the future of science: we become more and more conscious of the fact that the universe is cognizable.

Georges Lemaitre

#7. A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an inside without an outside.

James Stephens

#8. Fear drains us, while love empowers us.

David Jeremiah

#9. As long as we can be just the sidelight, the side issue, issues that deal with human beings, both men and women and children that should be given more prominence are not.

Eleanor Smeal

#10. Come to the Dark Side." Killian deepened his voice. "We have spreadsheets.

Zoe Chant

#11. There will be no conversation in which you call me a racist, and I explain why I'm not a racist. That's a conversation for idiots.

Ben Shapiro

#12. His hands are behind his back.
'Choose,' he says.
'I've already made my choice,' I say, and I grab the sleeve of his leather jacket and pull him inside.

Jill Hathaway

#13. I serve no one who pretends to be a God!

Angel S. Broady

#14. My father was a strange combination of drill instructor and Alice's white rabbit: he always had someplace important to go and enjoyed bossing everyone else around.

Katie McGarry

#15. One or two people have named their children after characters in my songs. That's pretty intense.

John Darnielle

#16. The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.

R. Lee Ermey

#17. There are things you maybe could get by a male drill instructor that a female instructor absolutely is never going to let you get away with. Women are harder on women.

Loretta Reynolds

#18. From the physician, as emphatically the student of Nature, is expected not only an inquiry into cause, but an investigation of the whole empire of Nature and a determination of the applicability of every species of knowledge to the improvement of his art.

John Gorrie

#19. I have long admired Caroline Leavitt's probing insight into people, her wit and compassion, her ability to find humor in dark situations, and conversely, her tenderness towards characters.

Dan Chaon