141 Quotes by Jim Mattis

It's very hard to live with yourself if you don't stick with your moral code.

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don't know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy's will are not allowed that luxury.

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn't waste their lives because I didn't have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

While victimhood in America is exalted, I don't think our veterans should join those ranks.

The Marines have landed, and we now own a piece of Afghanistan.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed... It doesn't give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

I'm on record that it didn't really traumatize me to do away with some people.

The Corps is in good hands, and it's been a privilege to serve with the Leathernecks. Now it's time to go.