Top 721 Marine Corps Quotes & Sayings

I was in the Marine Corps in 1971. The idea 'Where does authority come from?' is fascinating to me. And also, the idea of a chaplain is fascinating to me because it's a man of the cloth in uniform, and it's the uniform of a killing machine. Back when I was in the Corps, when I saw that, I was amazed by it.

During my 20 years as a Marine, I served three combat tours and as a Congressional Fellow advising a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee on defense and foreign policy. I went on to serve in the Pentagon as Marine Corps' liaison to the State Department.

We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.

I served two tours in Iraq, in the Marine Corps.

Who has created more peace in the world, the Peace Corps or the Marine Corps?

The Marine Corps went from 15,000, which its strength was when I was Commandant, to approximately 400,000 when I retired, and more than that afterward, without losing its individual characteristics. It was the same Marine Corps. It was not different in any respect.

When I got out of the Marine Corps, I didn't have much guidance.

Ensure that no Marine who honorably wore the eagle, globe and anchor is lost to the Marine Corps family.

I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps.

The Marine Corps was the first father figure I had ever known.

Since the birth of our nation, the steady performance of the Marine Corps in fighting America's battles has made it the very symbol of military excellence. The Corps has come to be recognized worldwide as an elite force of fighting men, renowned for their physical endurance, for their high level of obedience, and for the fierce pride they take, as individuals, in the capacity for self discipline.

One day, you'll get out of the Marine Corps; you'll put your uniform up, but you'll never not be a Marine.

The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish

My brother was a captain in the Marine Corps and a very big hero in my life.

I am a retired United States Marine Corporal and I started out in 2nd Battalion Night Marines on my deployment and I finished my career in the Marine Corps at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center as a patient.

When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything.

Spread the gospel that the Marine Corps is a force that has changed. We're not in 1942 anymore.

War is brutish, inglorious, and a terrible waste... The only redeeming factors were my comrades' incredible bravery and their devotion to each other. Marine Corps training taught us to kill efficiently and to try to survive. But it also taught us loyalty to each other - and love. That espirit de corps sustained us.

We should never lose sight of the ethos that has made the Marine Corps - where 'every Marine is a rifleman' - one of America's cherished institutions and one of the world's most feared and respected fighting forces

In the Marine Corps there is no individual effort, we're all a big team.

My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.

It's better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps.

I loved being in the Marine Corps, I loved my job in the Marine Corps, and I loved the people I served with. It's one of the best things I've had a chance to do.

In the last analysis, what the Marine Corps becomes is what we make of it during our respective watches. And that watch of each Marine is not confined to the time he spends on active duty. It last as long as he is "proud to bear the title of United States Marine."

In the Marine Corps, your buddy is not only your classmate or fellow officer, but he is also the Marine under your command. If you don't prepare yourself to properly train him, lead him, and support him on the battlefield, then you're going to let him down. That is unforgivable in the Marine Corps.

Whatever the job is, we can do it. Thats why the nation has a Marine Corps.

And all of these together, as much as any campaign the Marine Corps has ever pursued, have brought an unrelenting, never-ceasing pride to all of us who have ever claimed the title of United States Marine

We have a saying in the Marine Corps and that is 'no better friend, no worse enemy, than a U.S. Marine.' We always hope for the first, friendship, but are certainly more than ready for the second.

I grew up in Boston in a very, very, very Marine town. So back in my neighborhood in Boston, a working-class neighborhood, when you got your draft notice, you went down, and you took your draft physical. And then, if you passed it, you joined the Marine Corps.

The Marine Corps has been, and will continue to be, America's Expeditionary Force in Readiness - ready to respond to today's crisis, with today's Marine forces, today.

I fought as an infantry Marine on one of the Vietnam War's harshest battlefields. After leaving the Marine Corps, I studied law and found a fulfilling career as an author and journalist. But again and again, I came back to the personal fulfillment that can only come from public service.

The military and the Marine Corps prepared me to be numb to the stress.

In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose.

The Marines fought almost solely on esprit de corps, I was certain. It was inconceivable to most Marines that they should let another Marine down, or that they could be responsible for dimming the bright reputation of their Corps. The Marines simply assumed that they were the world's best fighting men.

I never thought anyone would pity me because of my time in the Marine Corps.

I selected an enormous Marine Corps emblem to be tattooed across my chest. It required several sittings and hurt me like the devil, but the finished product was worth the pain. I blazed triumphantly forth, a Marine from throat to waist. The emblem is still with me. Nothing on earth but skinning will remove it.

I always equate wrestling to having been in the Marine Corps.

Everything in my life I owe to God, my family, the Naval Academy, and the Marine Corps.

The Marine Corps ... took a boy and made him a man.

The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years.

I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.

After my time in the Marine Corps with 'don't ask, don't tell,' I didn't want to hide any more.

The aim of every woman is to be truly integrated into the Corps. She is able and willing to undertake any assignment consonant with Marine Corps needs, and is proudest of all that she has no nickname. She is a "Marine."

I earned my stripes as a Marine, and the Corps gets full credit for straightening me out. At 17, I was young, I was unhappy and most of all, I was undisciplined. The Marine Corps was the right service in the right place at the right time.

Clay Hunt was the kind of individual that has made America a great country. In 2005, when his country needed him, he enlisted in the Marine Corps. Shot in Iraq, he earned a Purple Heart, and after he recuperated, he graduated from Marine Corps Scout Sniper School and was deployed to Afghanistan.

A Marine is a Marine. I set that policy two weeks ago - there's no such thing as a former Marine. You're a Marine, just in a different uniform and you're in a different phase of your life. But you'll always be a Marine because you went to Parris Island, San Diego or the hills of Quantico. There's no such thing as a former Marine.

In the Marine Corps, we're taught to put America above ourselves.

One of the things I learned at the Naval Academy and the Marine Corps is we have to make tough decisions.

I was going to be a Marine before I was going to be an actor. I was really serious about joining the Marine Corps.

For me, leaving the Marine Corps was more disorienting than returning home.

Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.

Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps.

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corps.

I do not believe I could have built FedEx without the skills I learned from the Marine Corps.

Being in the Marine Corps was the best thing that ever happened to me. It can do a lot for a young guy. I owe a lot to the Marine Corps. If I had a son, I'd want him to be a Marine.

My definition, the definition that I've always believed in, is that esprit de corps means love for one's own military legion - in my case, the United States Marine Corps. It means more than self-preservation, religion, or patriotism. I've also learned that this loyalty to one's corps travels both ways: up and down.

I was stationed at a Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego from 1965 to 1967.

In the Marine Corps, I was used to people doing what they said and saying what they mean. There was a higher purpose and calling in the Corps. Everyone works toward accomplishing something together, and there's a common goal. In entertainment, the same isn't always true. You're in it for yourself in Hollywood.

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish.