R.E. Butler Quotes

The monitor presently shows the Windows Blue Screen of Death, though this does not alarm him, as the BSoD is the universal screen saver in Hell.

If you have the bad MOJO of a situation or a person riding you down you must first remove that saddle.

Without love, we are pointless. With it, we are infinite.

The future you build for yourself is only as limited as your imagination and a undisciplined goal orientated mind.

Turns out ovaries work just as good as balls when you're in the driver's seat.

No two snowflakes are alike and neither are the Soldier's in your charge. Don't make the mistake of treating your Soldier's like tangible things instead of the valued human assets they are.

Learning to accept help from others is not a sign of weakness it's a badge of courage reflecting mutual trust between the giver and the receiver.

Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn

Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

Cuban eyes often look close to tears. Tears never seem far away because both their pain and their joy are always so close to the surface.

The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too.

Because no one ever listens to the dog.

Mention but the word "divinity, " and our sense of the divine is clouded.

Educated idiots are the most fearsome creatures in a leadership structure because even though trained they still refuse to think.

Our journeys are different but we can share the same well traveled path during parts of our excursion. Small victories win wars not single battles.

Being a leader doesn't mean you always have to be in charge. Sometimes leaders make certain others have the right information at the right time to lead the charge or pull back to fight another day.

The saddle is off and the rest of this ride will be bareback. Code for it's gonna be a tough ride to the finish.

If a leader works hard to break the spirit of their Soldier they'll soon meet the most focused Soldier of a career.

A leader is skating up hill on a slippery slope when Servant Leadership is not part of a leaders philosophy.

You can't fake a great steak nor can you convince a raging bull to give you a easy eight second ride.

Its been my experience during my military career that a leader displaying a THIRST for power will ultimately have a APPETITE for destruction to go along with it.

Self Care is the secret ingredient to Soldier care in a recipe that yields many servings of effective leadership.

Excuses are most valuable to the person making them but to everyone else its foreign currency with little value or not accepted at all. You are not good with me until your integrity check clears.

Las Vegas, the most expensive toilet in the world that still can’t flush.

As long as you're actively trying to achieve your goals your successes are rewards and your short comings are lessons learned

Truth is after you've put out all the INFO to your Soldiers in formation they'll soon forget what you said but will never forget what you did behind those words.

Even the most absent minded Soldier will develope a memory like a elephant when mistreated.

The fragile ego of a poor leader can not resist the urge to tug at the delicate fabric of good order and disipline thus unraveling their own true nature.

People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

The most beautiful thing is inevitability of events and the most ugly thing is trying to resist inevitability.

A degenerate nobleman or one that is proud of his birth is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you but he will make a fool of himself too.

I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.

I can generally bear the separation but I don't like the leave-taking.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences to change.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influence to change.

Style personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted and at seeing it practised.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

The best lack all conviction while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

Neither have they hearts to stay Nor wit enough to run away.

Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it-torn up to irrecoverable tatters.

It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof.

There is one thing certain namely that we can have nothing certain therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain.