Sy Montgomery Quotes

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.

The first duty of a leader is opti­mism. How does your sub­or­di­nate feel after meet­ing with you? Does he feel uplifted? If not, you are not a leader.

As God once said, and I think rightly.

My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.

Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.

I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you

Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... Rule 2 is: Do not go fighting with your land armies in China.

We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.

Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.

Let no man surrender so long as he is unwounded and can fight.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

The doctrines of grace stand or fall together, and together they point to one central truth: salvation is all of grace because it is all of God; and because it is all of God, it is all for His glory.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

No one ever truly comes to know, honor, or worship God without being changed in the process

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.

Life's a dance you learn as you go, sometimes you lead sometimes you follow, don't worry about what you don't know

Im my profession you have to mystify the enemy.

A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people.

You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.

…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

Anne Shirley. Anne with an "e.

That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.

If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery

Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!

I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.

I hate to lend a book I love...it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.

It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.

I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.

A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors.

Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans; High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.

If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him.

The world's theology is easy to define. It is the view that human beings are basically good, that no one is really lost, that belief in Jesus Christ is not necessary for salvation.

If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and lose it quickly.

it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine

Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset - its flexibility.

I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what we say we are.

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.