These recruit quotes will inspire you. Recruit, a newcomer to a field or activity specifically or enlist (someone) in the armed forces.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging recruit quotes, recruit sayings, and recruit proverbs.
Best Recruit Quotes
- “Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman’s cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.” ~ Thomas Huxley
- “I was stationed at a Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego from 1965 to 1967.” ~ R. Lee Ermey , Marine recruit quotes
- “As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children.” ~ Anita Bryant
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“If you can dream it, you can achieve it.” ~ Zig Ziglar
- “If you can dream it, you can make it so.” ~ Belva Davis
- “If you can dream it, you can do it.” ~ Walt Disney
- “Most Christians would like to send their recruits to Bible college for five years. I would like to send them to hell for five minutes. That would do more than anything else to prepare them for a lifetime of compassionate ministry.” ~ William Booth
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“God will recruit as necessary from the human cast in order to reorder human history.” ~ Walter Brueggemann
- “Let’s say a startup is hot. It ships something great, and it achieves success. Thus, it’s able to attract the best, brightest, and most talented. These people have been told they’re the best since childhood. Indeed, being hired by the hot company is “proof” that they are the A and A+ players; in fact, the company is so hot that it can out-recruit Google and Microsoft.” ~ Guy Kawasaki
- “Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can’t just ride along. You’re learning to steer the ship, navigation; you’re pulling lines, keeping a lookout; in the galley you’re cooking.” ~ Billy Campbell
- “Creating fear and loathing of gay and lesbian Americans has proven, year after year, to be the most effective say for Dobson and the other fundamentalist Christian leaders to raise millions of dollars and recruit millions of volunteers to support their long-range campaign to take back America.” ~ Mel White
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“There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.” ~ R. Lee Ermey
- “I had a friend in high school who badly wanted to make movies and would recruit me as an actor. It was always so much fun. I decided, I’m going to go to Hollywood and make movies, which is a thought I’d never had before.” ~ Evan Glodell
- “I find a difference in British spy fiction and American spy fiction. In the American version, it’s more militaristic, partly because the CIA has more of the military makeup. Whereas MI6 is more of a cerebral, intelligence-based, relationship-based service, i.e., all they do is recruit people to get information out of them.” ~ Charles Cumming
- “Homosexuals want their depraved ‘values’ to become our children’s values. Homosexuals expect society to embrace their immoral way of life. Worse yet, they are looking for new recruits!” ~ Beverly LaHaye
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“We don’t recruit volunteers; we release leaders. Volunteers do good things but leaders change the world.” ~ Craig Groeschel
- “Iran can recruit hundreds of suicide bombers a day. Suicide is an invincible weapon. Suicide bombers in this land showed us the way, and they enlighten our future.” ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- “By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools’ ability to recruit the right people.” ~ Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
- “I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn’t recruit me and he said: ‘Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren’t any good.'” ~ Walt Garrison
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“Homosexuals cannot reproduce-so they must recruit … and to freshen their ranks they must recruit the youth of America.” ~ Anita Bryant
- “Some relaxation is necessary to people of every degree; the head that thinks and the hand that labors, must have some little time to recruit their diminished powers.” ~ Bernard Gilpin
- “Jeff Bzdelik is one of the smartest, most knowledgeable, hardest working coaches I have ever worked with. His teams in the NBA and college have achieved beyond their talent levels. Recruits to Wake Forest will play for a coach who was successful in the NBA for a long time and will teach them what they need to know to make it to the NBA.” ~ Stan Van Gundy
- “We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.” ~ George W. Bush
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“I reject that. I would rather recruit a Racist left winger than a right winger.” ~ Tom Metzger
- “Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means of drugs, beautiful women, lush gardens, and religious promises. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham
- “So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army.” ~ Gerald Scarfe , Army recruit quotes
- “When I came to the CIA in the mid-’90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency.” ~ George Tenet
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“For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal.” ~ Arsene Wenger
- “The Democrats have to do what he did when [Rahm Emanuel] was chairman of the Democratic House Campaign Committee, recruit veterans, recruit football players, recruit business people. And I think that’s what the job of the new party chair has to be.” ~ Mark Shields
- “People went out there and they wrote articles and went on television shows saying that I am an operative that the CIA who used Jon Stewart to recruit me. So Jon Stewart, who actually – a guy from America was used by the CIA in order to recruit me for the CIA and be – make me a CIA agent to use sarcasm to bring down the government and bring down the country because this was all, of course, part of a worldwide conspiracy against the country.” ~ Bassem Youssef
- “I was a runner and a soccer player living in Okinawa, Japan and I didn’t have recruiters coming in to recruit me for sports. So how many kids out there and planning to go to college are super stud athletes but don’t have a chance because they come from some podunk town and no one comes to watch them?” ~ Kristin Armstrong
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“We know now that Donald Trump’s comments are actually being used to recruit and radicalize on the Internet.” ~ Hillary Clinton
- “ISIS is using the internet to recruit. ISIS is using the internet to intercept and do all sorts of things to our country. We have to be many steps ahead of them, and we will be.” ~ Donald Trump
- “Think of it as the military doing a spectacular hack as opposed to blowing things up. The internet allows ISIS to have a secure method of communication across the globe. It helps the group recruit and raise money. That’s the bad news.” ~ Dina Temple-Raston
- “On Sundays I give the sermons like my dad used to give. I utilize it as a revolutionary tool, as a thinking tool, as a tool where I can recruit people, DM them, and give them information that I feel that they need going forward.” ~ Wyclef Jean
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“You can look at the propaganda on a lot of the terrorists sites, and what Donald Trump says about Muslims is used to recruit fighters, because they want to create a war between us.” ~ Hillary Clinton
- “They [US Administration] have exploited hip-hop and some of the culture around it – magazines, videos, etc. – to recruit people into the military. The Army says it will give out Hummers, platinum teeth, or whatever to those that actually join.” ~ Chuck D
- “It is hard for an athlete to standout through an email, especially when his email gets mixed in with the emails coming from recruits that think they can play somewhere they really can’t. That makes filtering through recruit emails an almost impossible task.” ~ Billy Kennedy
- “The good thing about competing at the NCAA Division I Level is that identifying recruits is usually a pretty easy thing for us to do. Most of the time, the type of kids we recruit are identified early in their high school careers by many college programs.” ~ Billy Kennedy
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“I love the fact British men act cool whatever the situation so I’m planning to recruit there.” ~ Sharon Stone
- “We have to show what life is really like in ISIS territory, and we have to show them why ISIS is not invincible, by going out and conducting these attacks and publicizing them to those who they recruit.” ~ Marco Rubio
- “Today’s announcement projects a picture of profound weakness in U.S. diplomacy. It should not have been a heavy lift for our diplomats in New York and in foreign capitals to recruit the necessary 96 affirmative votes to seat the United States in the new council.” ~ Tom Lantos
- “We’ve got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we’re setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida.” ~ Chris Matthews
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“Languages, like our bodies, are in a perpetual flux, and stand in need of recruits to supply those words that are continually falling, through disuse.” ~ Tom Felton
- “Each restorational advancement of the Army of the Lord has established denominational forts that are given responsibility to maintain the purity and power of that truth… New recruits are now being drafted and trained and older soldiers and generals are being put through intensified training for the next advancement of the Church Army. They are being purified by the Baptism of Fire… Are you ready? Where do you start? What will you do? A new government must be established, a new way of life for those millions of people. You are now ready to rule and reign on your overcomer’s throne!” ~ Bill Hamon
- “There is no doubt that the actions of ISIS are designed to amplify their power and the threat that they pose. That helps them recruit. That adds in the twisted thoughts of some young person that they might want to have carry out an action that somehow they’re part of a larger movement.” ~ Barack Obama
- “There is another innovation at Harvard which I think made a tremendous difference and that is the decision to try to recruit the very best person in the field for an available faculty position. In the period after World War II Harvard literally engaged in world-wide searches for the very best and created a culture in which it was simply unacceptable to hire friends and associates, to make decisions based on personal affections or inclinations.” ~ Henry Rosovsky
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“Every president developed his own style. You know that we don’t recruit them to a certain standard.” ~ Newt Gingrich
- “See how exciting Anthropology is? He’s a leading expert in ancient Greece. Now you should all change your majors so that you can ogle men like him all day long. Or better yet, uncover naked male statues. (Tory) Was that necessary? (Acheron) Hey, I live to recruit students for the department. If I can make you good for something, then by golly I’m going to do it. (Tory)” ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
- “Post-adolescent Expert Syndrome The tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a state of mind required by nature to ensure warriors who are willing to die with pleasure on the battlefield. Also the reason why religions recruit kamikaze pilots and suicide bombers almost exclusively from the 18-21 range. “Kyle, I never would have guessed that when you were up in your bedroom playing World of Warcraft all through your teens, you were, in fact, becoming an expert on the films of Jean-Luc Godard.” ~ Douglas Coupland
- “I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day – I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.” ~ R. Lee Ermey
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“My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.” ~ Al McGuire
- “I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come to know a God whose Son made prodigals the heroes of his stories and the trophies of his ministry.” ~ Philip Yancey
- “To expect … the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never did and perhaps never will happen. Men, who are familiarized to danger, meet it without shrinking; whereas troops unused to service often apprehend danger where no danger is.” ~ George Washington
- “Of all the recruits in his cohort, he had learned the quickest. How to hold the spear, how to stand to spar. He’d done it almost without instruction. That had shocked Tukks. But why should it have? You were not shocked when a child knew how to breathe. You were not shocked when a skyeel took flight for the first time. You should not be shocked when you hand Kaladin Stormblessed a spear and he knows how to use it.” ~ Brandon Sanderson
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“If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn’t recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.” ~ Bear Bryant
- “So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women’s power as economic catalysts. That is the process under way – not a drama of victimization but of empowerment, the kind that transforms bubbly teenage girls from brothel slaves into successful businesswomen. This is a story of transformation. It is change that is already taking place, and change that can accelerate if you’ll just open your heart and join in.” ~ Nicholas D. Kristof
- “We should strengthen our immigration laws to prevent the importation of foreign wages and working conditions. We should make it illegal for employers to lay off Americans and then fill their jobs by bringing in workers from overseas. Any U.S. employer who wishes to hire from abroad – even for temporary jobs – should have to recruit U.S. workers first. And we should end the unskilled immigration that competes with young Americans just entering the job market.” ~ Edward Kennedy
- “… the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is.” ~ Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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“I don’t recruit players who are nasty to their parents. I look for players who realize the world doesn’t revolve around them.” ~ Pete Carril
- “Every Sailor has the potential to lead,” said Mullen, “I don’t care if it’s a seaman recruit or someone higher ranking than myself. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.” ~ Michael Mullen
- “We’re going to try and recruit the very best people we can and produce the best papers we can, and publish them to the highest standards we can .” ~ Conrad Black
- “The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in their private lives or in the lives that they intend to lead in school. When they begin to teach, they come into their classrooms with a sense of affirmation of the goodness and the fullness of existence, with a sense of satisfaction in discovering the unexpected in their students, and with a longing to surprise the world, their kids, even themselves, with their capacity to leave each place they’ve been … a better and more joyful place than it was when they entered it.” ~ Jonathan Kozol
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“Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don’t get.” ~ Don Meyer
- “If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.” ~ Bobby Knight
