Famous quotes by Soldiers

"Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death"

Miyamoto Musashi, Soldier

"All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this"

Miyamoto Musashi, Soldier

"Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men"

Miyamoto Musashi, Soldier

"You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing and using a timing which the enemy does not expect"

Miyamoto Musashi, Soldier

"War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"Pursue one great, decisive aim with force and determination"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"Politics is the womb in which war develops"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"War is the province of danger"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform"

Xenophon, Soldier

"He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce"

Xenophon, Soldier

"Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy"

Xenophon, Soldier

"The sweetest of all sounds is praise"

Xenophon, Soldier

"The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril"

Xenophon, Soldier

"For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim"

Xenophon, Soldier

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