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Motivational

Many of our recruits struggle for various reasons through their basic training. Some find the training hard, some become homesick, some are just dog tired. On the most part it’s just a blip and a few words of encouragement is all they need to keep them going. As a military mum, I sent lots of notes and quotes to my kids during their Army and Navy training – these are a few of them.

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If they stand behind you protect them, If they stand beside you respect them, If they stand against you defeat them.
There’s a lot of blood, sweat and guts between dreams and success.
Be the girl who just went for it.
You’re closer than you were yesterday.
Be careful who you trust. Salt and sugar look the same.
Let’s keep the dumbfuckery to a minimum today.
Your attitude determines your direction.
Tough situations build strong people.
Look in the mirror… that’s your competition.
Winners train, losers complain.
Whenever you feel like giving up, think of all the people that would love to see you fail.
It’s going to be hard, but hard is not impossible.
Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a lesson of some kind. The goal is to find it.
Life takes you to unexpected places. Love brings you home.
If you are feeling lonely or homesick my darling, look at the moon, because I will be looking up there for you too.
Tough girls wear anchors.
Don’t think about what can happen in a month. Don’t think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 10 weeks in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be.
The moment when you want to quit is the moment when you need to keep pushing.
It’s not who you are that holds you back… it’s who you think you’re not.
Put in the work sister and wait for the magic.
Accept the fact that some days you are the pigeon and some days you are the statue.
What’s broken can be mended. What hurts can be healed. And no matter how dark it gets, the sun is going to rise again.
Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.
When you can’t change the direction of the wind, adjust your sails.
When you feel homesick, just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.
Chase your dreams but always know the road will lead you home again.
A person who falls and gets back up is much stronger than a person who never fell.
Keep calm and carry on.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.
On of the hardest decisions you’ll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.
Don’t ever give up. Don’t let frustration knock you down. Don’t let fear stand in your way. Don’t let time get in your head. Who cares how long it takes or how many times you try. Your only competition is yourself. And when you finally succeed, the struggle will be worth it.
There is no shortcut. It takes time to build a better, stronger version of yourself.
When people ask “What do you do?” Answer: “Whatever it takes”
The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It’s about what you’re made of, not the circumstances.
The best view comes after the hardest climb.
Just want to make this point in case people haven’t realised it yet. They longer you don’t comply with social distancing, the longer we’re going to have to do it.
It looks like the MOD have cured the Covid-19 outbreak. They gave it a stores number and now nobody can have it.
If swearing like a motherf*cker burned calories, I’d probably weigh life half a pound.
Keep calm I’m an official navy mum.
Behind every soldier, sailor and airman stands a proud military mum.
Strong women aren’t simply born. We are forged through the challenges of life. With each challenge we grow mentally and emotionally. We move forward with our head held high and a strength that can not be denied. A woman who’s been through the storm and survived. We are warriors!
Soldiers don’t brag but their mums do.
My sailor, my child, my pride, my world. I’m a proud Navy mum.
Sailors don’t brag, but their mums do.
Blossoming into a baddass woman with more faith than fear.
Believe in yourself.
The task ahead of you is never as great as the power behind you.
Obsessed is a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.
If it was easy, everyone would do it.
The Devil whispered in my ear “You’re not strong enough to withstand the storm.” Today I whispered in the Devil’s ear, “I am the storm.”
Fear has two meanings. Forget everything and run or face everything and rise. The choice is yours.
You’re allowed five emotional minutes in the day, then you gotta be gangsta.
Great things never come from comfort zones.
Wake up with determination and go to bed with satisfaction.
If you don’t fight for what you want, don’t cry for what you lose.
One of the hardest decisions you’ll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.
When life knocks you down, calmly get back up, smile and say “you hit like a bitch”.
You are stronger than you know.
Just because you aren’t where they are doesn’t mean you don’t have what it takes.
Choose people who choose you.
Be the master of your fate. Be the captain of your soul.
Don’t quit.
You are my favourite hellow and my hardest goodbye.
3 Choices: Give up, give In or give it your all.
If your path demands you to walk through hell, walk as if you own the place.
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
One you become fearless, life becomes limitless.
You can’t beat someone who never quits.
The Devil doesn’t come to you with a red face and horns, he comes to you disguised as everything you’ve ever wanted.
Make sure everybody in your boat is rowing and not drilling holes when you’re not looking.
Everyone must choose on of two pains, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. They are the real heroes, and so are the families and friends who have stood by them.
Role models inspire you by showing you what is possible with their own experience. Mentors help you manifest your dreams and goals. They can help make the impossible possible.
Wish it. Plan it. Do it.
You are doing a beautiful job of figuring out some heavy shit.
Be humble but let motherfuckers know.
Train the quit out of you.
It always seems impossible until it’s done.
Your body can stand almost anything. It’s your mind that you have to convince.
Success is dependent on efforts.
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
A parent will only ever be in 1 of 3 places: in front of you to cheer you on, behind you to have your back, or next to you so you aren’t walking alone.
Good things come to those who sweat.
You have to hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because most of life’s lessons are learned with pain.
Will it be easy? Nope. Worth it? Absolutely.
The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.
A river cuts through rock, not because of it’s power, but because of it’s persistence.
Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Sometimes you need bad things to happen to inspire you to change & grow.
Keep going. Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.
Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary desiny.
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the team won’t be worth a dime.
There is no magic achievement. It’s really about hard work, choices and persistence.
Life is like a cup of tea. The taste is all up to how you make it.
Teach your daughters to worry less about fitting into glass slippers & more about shattering glass ceilings.
Rumours are carried by haters, spread by fools, & accepted by idiots.
DNA doesn’t always make a family.
Failure is inevitable, unavoidable. But failure should never get the last word. You have to never take no for an answer and take what’s coming to you. Never give in, never give up, stand up and take it.
Your biggest challenge is to show up when your mind is making the best excuses.
Dare to dream big.
It might be stormy now, but rain doesn’t last forever.
Show yourself how much you can depend on the person you’ve become.
You have to be able to get up and dust yourself off and always be going forward.
Set your goals high, and don’t stop until you get there.
The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow.