Quote by Dominic Mann

“When someone asked Demaratus why the Spartans disgrace those who throw away their shields but not those who abandon their breastplates or helmets, he…

— Plutarch

“You must bear losses like a soldier, the voice told me, bravely and without complaint, and just when the day seems lost, grab your…

— Margaret George

“[The Spartans] should not make war often, or long, with the same enemy, lest that they should train and instruct them in war, by…

— Plutarch

“I'm learning to let go of my shields, to take the armors off (they are too heavy anyways) and march unguarded, if ever the…

— Ayokunle Falomo

The people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or Stronger

— Cherry Diaz

“We are not meant to come through our battles as merely survivors. We are meant to come off the battlefield as victors, and to…

— Kristen M. Smeltzer

“Now put your shields before your hearts and fight / With hearts more proof than shields. Advance, my fellows!”

— William Shakespeare

“Tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.”

— Steven Pressfield

“A soldier will return as a hero either with a medal on his chest or a metal in his chest.”

— Suraj Sani

The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled…

— Steven Pressfield

“Sometimes you can win a war by leaving the battlefield before your army gets killed.”

— Wendy Walker

“the Spartan right fall upon the defenders of Antirhion, not in frenzied shrieking rage, lip-curled and fang-bared, but predator-like, cold-blooded, applying the steel with…

— Steven Pressfield