Famous quotes by Soldiers

"We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it"

John Newton, Soldier

"With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power"

Billy Mitchell, Soldier

"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death"

Michel Aoun, Soldier

"There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement"

Arthur Phillip, Soldier

"In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading"

J. F. C. Fuller, Soldier

"As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the six brigades by heavy skirmish lines, to be followed by stronger supporting lines"

James Longstreet, Soldier

"The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory"

Douglas Haig, Soldier

"I'll answer to none but the King himself"

Thomas Blood, Soldier

"The powers of Congress are totally inadequate to preserve the balance between the respective States, and oblige them to do those things which are essential for their own welfare or for the general good"

Henry Knox, Soldier

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"The act of dying is one of the acts of life"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Anger cannot be dishonest"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"A man should be upright, not be kept upright"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"You must become an old man in good time, if you wish to be an old man long"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Men exist for the sake of one another"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it?"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up if you just dig"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Death, like birth, is a secret of nature"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"If a man does his best, what else is there?"

George S. Patton, Soldier

"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results"

George S. Patton, Soldier

"Always do everything you ask of those you command"

George S. Patton, Soldier

"All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated"

George S. Patton, Soldier

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