Royal Canadian Navy

“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men and weak men create hard times.”

― G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain

“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none.
When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.
When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.” - Chief Tecumseh

"A pattern is a pattern, and only a fool ignores one because he does not care for the implications" - Long John Silver (Black Sails)

"Madness is such a hard thing to define, which makes it such an easy label to affix to one's enemies." - Captain Flint (Black Sails)

“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!” - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

"Gafflwn Dihenydd O’r fuddugol yn wiriol sydd, Ni fydd neb yn ein drechu, Falch ydy ni I drochu, Traed o flaen I’r Annwn, mewn y gwybodaeth fe godwn ni. (We cheat death from his rightful victory, No one can overcome us, We are glad to plunge feet first into Annwn, In the knowledge we will rise again)" - Light of Aidan - Lament (ODST)

"Each man must at one time die. No one may escape dying that once, and it is my counsel that we not flee, but for our own part act the bravest."
—Volsung, The Saga of the Volsungs

"The world used to be a bigger place."
"The world's still the same, there's just... less in it" - Pirates of the Caribbean

"We all chose to fly, Voss, Sternberg, Lehman, Wolff, Hawker, and whatever side we fought on we all knew the risks we took. I wanted to be the best, I wanted to win and I thought I won. I can see now that we have turned our world into a dam slaughterhouse, and I am already too big a part of it. They use my photograph to give hope where there is none. They use my name too fain immortality, where there reality is annihilation. You said it yourself; the men dying out there have no choice. I have. I cannot order them into battle. I can perhaps lead them, help them, die with them, but I will not betray them or keep the truth from them by remaining the immortal god Berlin wants me to be." - Manfred Von Richthofen (The Red Baron)

"...And When the sun sets, and we have killed all who oppose us. We will destroy his drugs, take his weapons, and disappear into rumour and fear." - Navy SEAL Senior Chief Jason Gardner, part of speech before Large Combat operation in Afghanistan (2009).