A Cadet of Cadet College Petaro - called a Petarian:

• Is a Gentleman of sterling character, transparent conduct, pure and pious.

• Speaks the truth, nothing but truth, and the whole truth.

• Is equipped with the twin virtues of honest thought and chaste uprightness.

• Is calm and cool and is not hit by violent bursts of passion and emotions.

• Is sober serene and sublime.

• Is conscious that orders from above and obedience from below is the be all and end all of military service.

• Is punctual to a second, efficient to the core, painstaking to the hilt.

• Is well-versed in discipline, decency, decorum and deportment, the metaphors and smile of his existence.

• Inculcates the fine attributes of initiative, drive and dash.

• Faces boldly with iron determination and a firm will, the horrors of the deep and the terrors of the skies.

• Is large-hearted, broad-minded and magnanimous.

• Performs his duties without fear or favour, but with fervour.

• Develops the fine attributes of spiritual detachment from material attachments.

• Prays from the deepest chambers of his heart beseeching Divine Beneficence, Benevolence and Mercy.

• Is not desirous of titles, power and deceit, but is grounded in the science and art of self-effacement

• Dives deep for precious pearls of wisdom and knowledge, and does not float over the surface.

• Marches forward through thick and thin, in the accompaniment of martial music of his heart, for the realization of his goal.

• Is conspicuous by his presence in a social station and yet also conspicuous by his absence as an individual.

• Is not only an intelligent student of his alma mater but also a diligent student of the university of life.

• Rises Everest-high far above the petty, deplorable, dangerous and obnoxious considerations of provincialism, parochialism, sectarianism and what-not isms.

• Understands that culture means a balanced development of moral and intellectual qualities and not dancing and drumming.

• Loves his motherland with unflinching loyalty

The Cadets of Cadet College are the Ornaments and Armaments of Pakistan. They should know that:

• The crown and glory of life is character.

• An honest man is the noblest work of the Lord Almighty.

• He is not fit to live who is not fit to die; and he his not fit to die who shirks from the duty of life.

• Life means enormous challenge, hard struggle, great labour, risk and competition, battles and wars.

• The charm and meaning of life lie in trying to attain the unattainable.

• how dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use.

• The is yet to be.

• Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

• You may be beaten at first, you may have to wait, but the courage that endures and is undaunted generally at last prevails.

• They never fall who fall in a good cause.

• Patience is the plaster for all sores.

• More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

• One who stops praying stops growing.

• He lacks most who longs most.

• Make your claim of wages zero, the world shall be under your feet.

• Man is not made of dust only, but possesses a spark of the Divine light.

• Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control lead life to sovereign power.

• Genius connotes capacity to take infinite pains.

• Man is the captain of his soul, master of his mind and the architect of his own fate.

• The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.

• Time is the stuff of which life is made.

• Procrastination is the thief of time.