Combat Quotes · Page 6

When over the enemy's lines never forget your own line of retreat.

— Oswald Boelcke

“The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat.”

— Richard Marcinko

“I left a piece of my soul that will always rightfully belong in the desert.”

— M.B. Dallocchio

But only a fool sails into combat with nature

— Robert Harris

It is not the victory that makes the joy of noble hearts; but the combat.

— Charles Forbes Rene de Montalembert

In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.

— Bear Grylls

The purpose of fiction is to combat loneliness.

— Josh Radnor

When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other…

— Plato

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient…

— Andre Gide

“There were hundreds of them, all dressed like silver dragons, all with long, streaming capes that looked like great wings, flapping and…

— Tony Del Degan

“So few people were left who knew what combat was like. People were so easy to frighten. Combat taught a man what…

— Tom Clancy

I'm really great with weapons: I did a lot of bo and staff training for 'Immortals.' I love knives. I'm a pretty…

— Kellan Lutz

Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war.

— Chris Hedges

“Combat is fear and management of fear far more than it is organized murder. Those who manage fear best will seize the…

— Glen Cook

Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son.

— Camille Paglia

As an infantry officer who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, I have led men in combat and trained them on…

— Pete Hegseth

That's give [Donald Trump] so much attention. And it's so funny. There actually have conflicting opinions on women in combat, in the…

— John McCain

Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human…

— John Strachan

The first murmurings from the liberal part of the U.S.A. that we were somehow in the wrong, brutal killers, bullying other countries;…

— Marcus Luttrell

I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served…

— Marc Garneau

There is only one purpose in hand-to-hand combat, and that is to kill. Never face an enemy with the idea of knocking…

— William Powell

The far object of a training system is to prepare the combat officer mentally so that he can cope with the unusual…

— Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order…

— Robert Jay Lifton

This world belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring…

— Ken Kesey

To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war…

— A. J. Liebling

Wrangel pretended to combat the Bolsheviks, Bolshevism is Jewry. In order to retain the favor of the Jews holding the real power…

— Boris Brasol

Letting the religious right teach ID in schools is like letting the Marines teach poetry in advanced combat training. As a scientist,…

— Julian Simon

Would you render the same level of support to someone who hadn't conscientiously objected, but rather instead rolled a grenade under their…

— Ward Churchill

The cure to combat the three Ss- stress, strain, and speed- can be found in three Ws- the work of devoted practice,…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

During their college years the oarsmen put in terrbily long hours, often showing up at the boathouse at 6:00am for preclass practices.…

— David Halberstam

The paradox is that, by children taking shortcuts through computer games, through fantasies, through movies that load on all the emotional stimulation…

— E. O. Wilson

Try to secure advantages before attacking. If possible, keep the sun behind you.

— Oswald Boelcke

Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.

— John Irving

Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.

— Seneca the Younger

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to be in combat.

— Jocko Willink

“Life did not take over the world by combat, but by networking.”

— Lynn Margulis

“It is the man on the ground with his rifle who ultimately wins the war.”

— Bruce H. Norton

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

— Miguel de Cervantes

My combat action has commenced... I've pissed my pants, but only a little.

— Anthony Swofford