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70 Motivational Quotes By Tom Clancy

Famous As: American Author Best Known for His Novel ‘The Hunt for Red October’
Born On: April 12, 1947
Died On: October 1, 2013
Born In: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Founder / Co Founder: Rotary Rocket
Died At Age: 66

Tom Leo Clancy Jr. was a prominent American novelist. Seventeen of his books were top sellers and he sold over hundred million copies of his books. Many of his works have been made into commercially successful films, including ‘The Sum of All Fears,’ ‘Patriot Games,’ ‘Clear and Present Danger,’ and ‘The Hunt for Red October.’ Games like ‘Splinter Cell series,’ ‘Ghost Recon,’ and ‘Rainbow Six’ were also inspired by his works. Read through the corpus of quotes by Tom Clancy on books, wealth, shows, hard-work, law, library, reading, sailing, hope, reality, collaboration, loss, technology, country, battles, etc.

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The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Tom Clancy
The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read

The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read

Tom Clancy
Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

Tom Clancy
What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

Tom Clancy
Nothing is as real as a dream. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.

Nothing is as real as a dream. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.

Tom Clancy
Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.

Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.

Tom Clancy
The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.

The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.

Tom Clancy
Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.

Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.

Tom Clancy
I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.

I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.

Tom Clancy
Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.

Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.

Tom Clancy
Remember, for every shot you fire, someone, somewhere, is making money.

Remember, for every shot you fire, someone, somewhere, is making money.

Tom Clancy
It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

Tom Clancy
Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.

Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.

Tom Clancy
If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth

If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth

Tom Clancy
It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.

It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.

Tom Clancy
When you have stopped learning you have begun to die.

When you have stopped learning you have begun to die.

Tom Clancy
There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.

There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.

Tom Clancy
(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.

(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.

Tom Clancy
Time is something that fills the empty spaces of life

Time is something that fills the empty spaces of life

Tom Clancy
Most things in here don't react well to bullets.

Most things in here don't react well to bullets.

Tom Clancy
Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and fire so often begin no differently than those of love and warmth.

Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and fire so often begin no differently than those of love and warmth.

Tom Clancy
The nice thing about enemies is you know where they stand. This is not always true of friends.

The nice thing about enemies is you know where they stand. This is not always true of friends." --General Sergey Voloshin

Tom Clancy
Surviving is much more painful than death.

Surviving is much more painful than death.

Tom Clancy
Even true believers had consciences, Too bad.

Even true believers had consciences, Too bad.

Tom Clancy
To Ronald Wilson Regan, The Fortieth President of The United States: The Man Who Won The War.

To Ronald Wilson Regan, The Fortieth President of The United States: The Man Who Won The War.

Tom Clancy
She didn't strike me as a

She didn't strike me as a "crossword in ink" kind of girl

Tom Clancy
An overnight success is ten years in the making.

An overnight success is ten years in the making.

Tom Clancy
So few people were left who knew what combat was like. People were so easy to frighten. Combat taught a man what to fear – and what to ignore.

So few people were left who knew what combat was like. People were so easy to frighten. Combat taught a man what to fear – and what to ignore.

Tom Clancy
My life is a very simple life thank you

My life is a very simple life thank you

Tom Clancy
The noblest of ideas have always been protected by warriors.

The noblest of ideas have always been protected by warriors.

Tom Clancy