100 Soldiers Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing soldiers quotes and sayings.
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Short Soldiers Quotes and Sayings
“I never expect a soldier to think.” —George Bernard Shaw
“To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.” —Napoleon Bonaparte
“On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.” —Unknown
“A coward dies a thousand deaths… a soldier dies but once.” —Tupac Shakur
“The history of a soldier’s wound beguiles the pain of it.” —Unknown
“Every lover is a soldier.” —Unknown
“The dead soldier’s silence sings our national anthem.” —Unknown
“The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree.” —Thomas Campbell
“Drinking is the soldier’s pleasure.” —Unknown
“To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.” —Patrick MacGill
“Be like a soldier, know when to fight, know when to surrender.” —Unknown
“We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them.” —Unknown
“You couldn’t see the soldiers as people. They were icons.” —Sara Sheridan
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.” —Plato
“My heart belongs to a soldier.” —Unknown
“Live for something rather than die for nothing.” —George Patton
“A true woman always loves a real soldier.” —Unknown
“Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.” —Douglas Macarthur
“Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal.” —Tupac Shakur
“Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.” —Unknown
“Don’t waste good iron for nails or good men for soldiers.” —Unknown
“Real heroes don’t wear capes they wear dog tags.” —Unknown
“Every soldier carries a Marshall’s baton in his pack.” —Napoleon Bonaparte
“No man is a man until he has been a soldier.” —Louis de Bernières
“The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.” —Benito Mussolini
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” —Napoleon Bonaparte
“I’m a soldier, ready for whatever.” —Unknown
“the secret of war lies in the communications.” —Napoleon Bonaparte
“One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.” —Edwin Arnold
“A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general.” —Henry G. Bohn
“It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.” —Zell Miller
“A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.” —Unknown
“I’m a soldier, not a diplomat. I can only tell the truth.” —Unknown
“It takes a stronger person to love a soldier. Support our troops.” —Unknown
“Every solider believes in war till the time he actually fights it.” —Pushpa Rana
“I want to be a soldier as my father was.” —Unknown
Soldiers Quotes and Sayings
“I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.” —General George S. Patton
“Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they’ve been given.” —Orson Scott Card
“We are parlor soldiers. The rugged battle of fate, where strength is born, we shun.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Soldiers are citizens of death’s grey land, drawing no dividend from time’s tomorrows.” —Siegfried Sassoon
“When defending itself against another country, a nation never lacks men, but too often, soldiers.” —Napoleon Bonaparte
“An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.” —Thomas Paine
“Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.” —Alex Berenson
“The soldier who fights to death never dies, but the soldier who fights for existence never truly exists.” —Unknown
“There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.” —Gilbert K Chesterton
“Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.” —Napoleon Bonaparte
“Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?” —Bill Watterson
“Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.” —Claude Adrien Helvetius
“A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.” —Georg C. Lichtenberg
“Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.” —Bob Marley
“Now as to the behavior of the soldiers: occupations always corrupt the occupiers.” —Yaroslav Trofimov
“Soldiers are citizens of death’s grey land, drawing no dividend from time’s tomorrows.” —Siegfried Sassoon
“I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.” —Siegfried Sassoon
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him. But because what is behind him.” —Unknown
“The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.” —Napoleon Bonaparte
“Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.” —Claude Adrien Helvetius
“Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.” —Franz Grillparzer
“Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.” —Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Two Stars on the shoulder are better and brighter than a thousand in the sky.” —Unknown
“We fight to win and win with a knock out,because there are no runners up in war.” —Genereal JJ Singh
“Life gets easier when you stop seeing yourself as victim but yet see yourself as a soldier whose survived the battles of everyday life.” —Unknown
“America without her Soldiers would be like God without His angels.” —Claudia Pemberton
“The soldier’s main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander.” —Ramman Kenoun
“Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.” —Hans Christian Andersen
“There’s a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.” —Unknown
“If death strikes before I prove my blood, I swear I’ll kill Death.” —Capt Manoj Kumar
“A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.” —Napoleon Bonaparte
“A soldier that dies to protect the lives and freedom of their fellow citizens deserves a day of recognition.” —Unknown
“Everyone knows what can happen to soldiers who are in front line units.” —Richard Engel
“Civilians enjoy their time because soldiers sacrifice their time.” —Amit Kalantri
“I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.” —Thomas Jefferson
“I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.” —Mohandas Gandhi
“Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.” —Siegfried Sassoon
“Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.” —Sallust
“A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.” —Philip Sidney
“It was easy to command such people. It was a privilege to be allowed to do so.” —Patrick Davis
“One doesn’t become a soldier in a week – it takes training, study and discipline.There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.” —Daniel Inouye
“Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.” —Robert Ingersoll
“It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave.” —Unknown
“I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire.” —Napoleon Bonaparte
“The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.” —Henry A. Kissinger
“The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.” —Edward Gibbon
“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” —Joseph Campbell
“When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.” —Napoleon Bonaparte
“How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?” —Curt Weldon
“If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.” —Frederick The Great
“A soldier’s life revolves around his mail. Like many others, I’ve been able to follow my kid’s progress from the day he was born until now he is able to walk and talk a little, and although I have never seen him I know him very well.” —Bill Mauldin
Top Ten Soldiers Quotes and Sayings
You will find here top ten soldier quotes and sayings selected by our team.
- “Be like a soldier, know when to fight, know when to surrender.” —Unknown
- “To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.” —Napoleon Bonaparte
- “If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.” —Frederick The Great
- “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.” —Douglas Macarthur
- “I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.” —General George S. Patton
- “Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.” —Claude Adrien Helvetius
- “An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.” —Thomas Paine
- “On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.” —Unknown
- “Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.” —Siegfried Sassoon
- “The soldier who fights to death never dies, but the soldier who fights for existence never truly exists.” —Unknown
