There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure.

- Richard Marcinko

Popularity is not leadership.

- Richard Marcinko

Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits - which was exactly where they were supposed to be.

- Richard Marcinko

Knives are like credit cards; don't leave home without 'em and always carry several

- Richard Marcinko

Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world w…

- Richard Marcinko

Call it a character flaw -- when under attack, I counter attack. Always.

- Richard Marcinko

The more thou sweateth in training, the less thou bleedeth in combat.

- Richard Marcinko

What drives me? In every mission I'm on, the thing that drives me most is the desire to find my limits-and extend them.

- Richard Marcinko

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier…

- Richard Marcinko