Community Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it…

— William Butler Yeats

Professional soldiers are people who die for a living.

— George Carlin

If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

— Carl von Clausewitz

A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier…

— Norman Mailer

The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Soldiering is a very important profession, is it not?

— Mike Jackson

“Victory and defeat are but ordinary events in a soldier's career, and why should you give up?”

— Luo Guanzhong

Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less…

— John M. McHugh

“The idea...that our professional military men and women train for years without knowing whether they will ever have to actually carry out their missions…

— Marcus Luttrell

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

— Napoleon Bonaparte