Marcus Luttrell is a retired United States Navy SEAL who received the Navy Cross and Purple Heart. Luttrell became an SO1 by the end of his eight-year career in the United States Navy. These Marcus Luttrell quotes will motivate you in life.
Best Marcus Luttrell Quotes
- “With 300 Marines, you could probably take over Iraq if you wanted to and get rid of ISIS completely. Make no mistake about it, Marines are war fighters. I mean they are really good at what they do. The only time they are not good at what they do is when someone puts the shackles on them.” ~ Marcus Luttrell
- “The real battle is won in the mind. It’s won by guys who understand their areas of weakness, who sit and think about it, plotting and planning to improve. Attending to the detail. Work on their weaknesses and overcome them. Because they can.” ~ Marcus Luttrell
- “There’s a storm inside of us, a burning river, a drive. You push yourself further than anyone could think possible. You are never out of the fight.” ~ Marcus Luttrell, Marcus Luttrell quotes on fight
- “I died upon that mountain. There is no question. A part of me will forever be upon that mountain. Dead. That’s my brothers died. If there’s a part of me that live, because of my brothers. Because of them I am still alive, and I can never forget, that no matter how much it hurts, how dark it gets, or how far you fall. You are never out of the fight.” ~ Marcus Luttrell
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“Anything worth doing is worth over-doing. Moderation is for cowards.” ~ Marcus Luttrell
- “Don’t let your thoughts run away with you, don’t start planning to bail out because you’re worried about the future and how much you can take. Don’t look ahead to the pain. Just get through the day.” ~ Marcus Luttrell
- “In death as in life, we stand together, always a family, always a team. The brotherhood never dies.” ~ Marcus Luttrell
- “I will never quit. My nation expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than my enemies. If knocked down i will get back up, every time. I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength to protect my enemies and to accomplish our mission. I am never out of the fight.” ~ Marcus Luttrell
- “Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can’t do anything.” ~ Marcus Luttrell
- “In times of uncertainty, there is a special breed of warrior ready to answer our Nation’s call; a common man with uncommon desire to succeed. Forged by adversity, he stands alongside America’s finest special operations forces to serve his country and the American people, and to protect their way of life. I am that man.” ~ Marcus Luttrell
- “I had no answer to those questions, only hope. With absolutely no one to turn to, no Mikey, no Axe, no Danny, I have to face the final battle by myself, maybe lonely, maybe desolate, maybe against formidable odds. But I was not giving up. I had only one Teammate. And He moved, as ever, in mysterious ways. But I was a Christian, and He had somehow saved me from a thousand AK-47 bullets on that day. No one had shot me, which was well nigh beyond all comprehension.” ~ Marcus Luttrell
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“There is no other way to beat a terrorist. You must fight like him, or he will surely kill you.” ~ Marcus Luttrell
- “To break a Navy Seal, you have to kill us. That’s why we can make it into our training. That’s why we can call ourselves Seals because the only way your gonna break us is to kill us.” ~ Marcus Luttrell
- “The first murmurings from the liberal part of the U.S.A. that we were somehow in the wrong, brutal killers, bullying other countries; that we who put our lives on the line for our nation at the behest of our government should somehow be charged with murder for shooting our enemy.” ~ Marcus Luttrell
- “In the military, if we don’t know something, we say we don’t know and proceed to shut up until we do. Some highly paid charlatans in the media think it’s absolutely fine to take a wild guess at the truth and then tell a couple of million people it’s cast-iron fact, just in case they might be right…I hope they’re proud of themselves because they nearly broke my mom’s heart.” ~ Marcus Luttrell
- “We all have our crosses to bear. We carry them heavily, out of love for our brothers in arms. But sometimes you have to let go of the idea that anyone down here is in control.” ~ Marcus Luttrell
- “There’s a storm inside of us. I’ve heard many team guys speak of this. A burning. A river. A drive.” ~ Marcus Luttrell
- “We all have our crosses to bear. We carry them heavily, out of love for our brothers in arms. But sometimes you have to let go of the idea that anyone down here is in control.” ~ Marcus Luttrell
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“You always have to strive” ~ Marcus Luttrell
- “Because everyone knows liberals have never been wrong about anything. You can ask them. Anytime.” ~ Marcus Luttrell
- “We’ve trained and trained for a reason: to be better at the craft of war than our enemy, to use our skill to perform the mission, and to accept the risks. As American warriors, it’s our obligation to protect the innocent. And that means, sometimes, that we’re the ones who need to be put on the disadvantaged side of the threat cycle.” ~ Marcus Luttrell
- “With 300 Marines you could probably take over Iraq if you wanted to and get rid of ISIS completely.” ~ Marcus Luttrell
- “The SEALs place a premium on brute strength, but there’s an even bigger premium on speed. That’s speed through the water, speed over the ground, and speed of thought. There’s no prizes for gleaming a set of well-oiled muscles in Coronado. Bulk just makes you slow, especially in soft sand, and that’s what we had to tackle every day of our lives, mile after mile.” ~ Marcus Luttrell
- “We aren’t heroes out there in the military. We’re just Patriots.” ~ Marcus Luttrell, Marcus Luttrell quotes on patriots
- “You can’t kill bad guys all day long because others will take their place.” ~ Marcus Luttrell
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“We train for war and fight to win.” ~ Marcus Luttrell
- “Helpless, tortured, shot, blown up, my best buddies all dead, and all because we were afraid of the liberals back home, afraid to do what was necessary to save our own lives. Afraid of American civilian lawyers. I have only one piece of advice for what it’s worth: If you don’t want to get into a war where things go wrong, where the wrong people sometimes get killed, where innocent people sometimes have to die, then stay the hell out of it in the first place.” ~ Marcus Luttrell
- “We know about bad guys, what they do, and often, who they are. The politicians have chosen to send us into battle, and that’s our trade. We do what’s necessary. And in my view, once those politicians have elected to send us out to do what 99.9 percent of the country would be terrified to undertake, they should get the hell out of the way and stay there.” ~ Marcus Luttrell
- “Service is selflessness–the opposite of the lifestyle that we see so much of in America today. The things that entertain us don’t often lift us up, or show us as the people we can rise up to become. The people who appear in this book–and others who did things I can’t talk about–are my role models. They quietly live out the idea expressed in the Bible (John 15:13): “Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” ~ Marcus Luttrell
- “…these are the problems of the modern U.S. combat soldier, the constant worry about overstepping the mark, and an American media that delights in trying to knock us down. Which we have done nothing to deserve. Except, perhaps, love our country and everything it stands for.” ~ Marcus Luttrell
