Combat Quotes · Page 7

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

— Oswald Boelcke

Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.

— John Irving

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

— Jocko Willink

Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.

— Seneca the Younger

“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

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

— Richard Marcinko

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

— Charles Forbes Rene de Montalembert

Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort…

— Valerie Jarrett

As combat infantrymen and special operators, we received thousands of hours of firearms training.

— Stanley A. McChrystal

He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation…

— Ian Mcewan

[My grandfather -a miner] had black lung, and he didn't talk about it much. It's almost like a combat veteran. But he…

— Dwight Yoakam

A military is built to fight. Our military must regard combat capability as the criterion to meet in all its work and…

— Xi Jinping

Beware the lessons of a fighter pilot who would rather fly a slide rule than kick your ass!

— Ron McKeown

They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.

— John Dryden

Poverty can't be an excuse for bad teaching, but teaching can't be the only thing we do to combat poverty.

— Tony Danza

The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of…

— Jim Webb

As president, I wouldn't be making the day-to-day combat decisions. The job of the commander-in-chief is to lay the objective out and…

— Ted Cruz

Certainly we're going to continue to see those commercials that I call 30-second drive-by shootings. And they're going to have a lot…

— Tom Barrett

I was sent to Korea, which was excellent training for what came later. I was assigned to remain on duty until I…

— Gus Grissom

Combat isn't where you might die -- though that does happen -- it's where you find out whether you get to keep…

— Sebastian Junger

It is true to say that the first kill can influence the whole future career of a fighter pilot. Many to whom…

— Adolf Galland

The American people overwhelmingly want our troops out of Iraq. They want the federal government to take real and immediate action to…

— Al Gore

There's something wonderfully exciting about the quiet sing song of an aeroplane overhead with all the guns in creation lighting out at…

— John Dos Passos

When you talk about the mental health problems, when people come back from war and combat and they see things that maybe…

— Donald Trump

What is needed is a move beyond tradition, nothing less than a reform movement to bring the core concepts of Islam into…

— Salman Rushdie

We were required to predict a soldier's performance in officer training and in combat, but we did so by evaluating his behavior…

— Daniel Kahneman

The heavens were the grandstands and only the gods were spectators. The stake was the world, the forfeit was the player's place…

— Elliott White Springs

Religion itself cannot but be dynamic which is why "return" is an incorrect term. A return to the forms of religion which…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“You are still not fucking immortal, sir. And your men certainly aren’t, but I don’t give a shit about the men. It’s…

— Paullina Simons

The door was locked and Alexia, resourceful as she was, had not yet learned to pick locks. Though she mentally added it…

— Gail Carriger

And there are Ben [Jonson] and William Shakespeare in wit-combat, sure enough; Ben bearing down like a mighty Spanish war-ship, fraught with…

— Thomas Carlyle

“I came to think of it as a kind of zen practice: the Zen of not fucking up.”

— Sebastian Junger

You cannot go into combat without putting the work in.

— Bernard Hopkins

If you're training in a combat sport, deliciousness takes a backseat.

— Anthony Bourdain

Let's unite our impassioned voices to combat climate change. The time is now.

— Ian Somerhalder

Putting cops on streets is the most effective way to combat crime.

— Letitia James

I don't feel that emotion is a good thing to have in combat. You must be cold.

— Conor McGregor

“Only one of us will need a boat when this combat is ended”

— Joseph Bédier

The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.

— William James