If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out? ~John Godfrey Saxe
You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire. ~Larry Brown
In the Netherlands we got a quote which is related to our theoretical tests.
In this we use grades from 1 till 10. When you've got a 6 or higher you've succeeded.
The quote is this one: "for every grade higher than a 6, you've spent to little time with you family"
We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn in this life that we tend to meet any situation by reorganizing, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization. - Petronius Arbiter Roman soldier 60 A.D.