Top 35 Marcus Luttrell Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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

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2. “Anything worth doing is worth over-doing. Moderation is for cowards.”

— Marcus Luttrell

3. “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

4. “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 teammates and to accomplish our mission. I am never out of the fight.”

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5. “In death as in life, we stand together, always a family, always a team. The brotherhood never dies.”

— Marcus Luttrell

6. “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

7. “God will give me justice.”

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8. “Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can’t do anything.”

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9. “You always have to strive.”

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10. “There’s a storm inside of us. I’ve heard many team guys speak of this. A burning. A river. A drive.”

— Marcus Luttrell

11. “With 300 Marines you could probably take over Iraq if you wanted to and get rid of ISIS completely.”

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12. “Every Navy SEAL is supremely confident, because we’re indoctrinated with a belief in victory at all costs; a conviction that no earthly force can withstand our thunderous assault on the battlefield. We’re invincible, right? Unstoppable. That’s what I believed to the depths of my spirit on the day they pinned the Trident on my chest. I still believe it. And I always will.”

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13. “Nothing just happens. You always have to strive. – Marcus Luttrell.”

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14. “There is no other way to beat a terrorist. You must fight like him, or he will surely kill you.”

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15. “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.”

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16. “Because everyone knows liberals have never been wrong about anything. You can ask them. Anytime.”

— Marcus Luttrell

17. “And if the liberal media and political community cannot accept that sometimes the wrong people get killed in war, then I can only suggest they first grow up and then serve a short stint up in the Hindu Kush.”

— Marcus Luttrell

18. “I spend most of my time at the ranch with my family, and enjoy life – watch the sun come up, watch it go down, thank God for another day, and just be happy.”

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19. “We aren’t heroes out there in the military. We’re just Patriots.”

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20. “You don’t get people to follow you by demanding it with your words. You do it by commanding it with your example.”

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21. “1. Consider all weapons to be loaded at all times. 2. Never point a weapon at anything you do not want to put a bullet through. 3. Never put your finger on the trigger unless you want to shoot. 4. Know your target and what’s behind it.”

— Marcus Luttrell

22. “Ernest Hemingway once wrote that “There is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter.” Let.”

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23. “And a short nod of respect is in order, because it’s harder to become a Navy SEAL than it is to get into Harvard Law School. Different, but harder.”

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24. “Look at me, right now in my story. 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

25. “You can’t kill bad guys all day long because others will take their place.”

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26. “There’s nothing heroic about suicide bombers. They’re mostly just dumb, brainwashed kids, stoned out of their minds.”

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27. “Because in the end, your enemy must ultimately fear you, understand your supremacy.”

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28. “If you spend time around people who are weak or always feel sorry for themselves, it’s bound to rub off on you.”

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29. “Our duty is to serve the mission, and if we’re not doing that, then we have no right to call what we do service.”

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30. “It’s people who focus on the positive that will come out on top.”

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31. “The truth is, any government that thinks war is somehow fair and subject to rules like a baseball game probably should not get into one.”

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32. “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.”

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33. “We were sent to Afghanistan to carry out hugely dangerous missions. But we were also told that we could not shoot that camel drover before he blew up all of us, because he might be an unarmed civilian just taking his dynamite for a walk.”

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34. “Well, in the view of most Navy SEALs, the public does not have that right to know, not if it means placing our lives in unnecessary peril.”

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35. “This thing is not going to last forever, and the flaming ferris wheel will continue to spin without you.”

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