Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Soldiers

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
Napoleon I (1769–1821) Emperor of France

Every lover is a soldier and has his camp in Cupid.
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (c.43 BCE–c.18 CE) Roman Poet

I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
George S. Patton (1885–1945) American Military Leader

Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.
Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Lawyer

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–99) American Lawyer, Orator, Agnostic

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German Poet, Writer

I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them.
Vladimir Horowitz (1904–89) Russian-born American Musician, Composer

We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes
Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899–1977) American Educator

Every soldier carries a marshall’s baton in his pack.
Napoleon I (1769–1821) Emperor of France

By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

If a soldier or laborer complains of the hardships of his lot, set him to do nothing
Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal.
Tupac Shakur (1971–96) American Rapper, Actor

We are parlor soldiers. The rugged battle of fate, where strength is born, we shun.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Let the soldier yield to the civilian
Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer

The best soldiers are not warlike
Chinese Proverb

Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
Charles Spurgeon (1834–92) English Baptist Preacher

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
Charles Baudelaire (1821–67) French Poet, Art Critic, Essayist, Translator

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–99) German Philosopher, Physicist

The soldiers fight and the kings are called heroes.
The Talmud Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.
Desmond Morris (b.1928) English Ethologist, Writer

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian

I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.
George S. Patton (1885–1945) American Military Leader

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
Sun Tzu (fl. c.544–496 BCE) Chinese General, Military Theorist

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) Italian Head of State, Politician

The first who was king was a fortunate soldier: Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
Voltaire (1694–1778) French Philosopher, Author

Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.
A. J. P. Taylor (1906–90) British Historian, Journalist, Broadcaster

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
George Washington (1732–99) American Head of State, Military Leader

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) American Nationalist, Author, Pamphleteer, Radical, Inventor

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English Novelist

A coward dies a thousand deaths… a soldier dies but once.
Tupac Shakur (1971–96) American Rapper, Actor

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.
Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) American Head of State

Don’t waste good iron for nails or good men for soldiers
Chinese Proverb

Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.
Napoleon I (1769–1821) Emperor of France

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) American Journalist, Literary Critic

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are to finishing it. You take Diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American Actor, Rancher, Humorist

The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence, utter, complete and bumptious.
George S. Patton (1885–1945) American Military Leader

If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks
Frederick II of Prussia (1712–86) Prussian Monarch

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.
Frederic Bastiat (1801–50) French Political Economist

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
Euripides (480–406 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist

As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it’s as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright

I never expect a soldier to think.
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright

Soldiers are sworn to action; they must win Some flaming, fatal climax with their lives. Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin They think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.
Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) English Poet, Writer, Soldier

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.
Common Proverb

The soldier who retreated 50 paces jeered at the one who retreated 100 paces
Chinese Proverb

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