Career Quote by John Monash

As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the…

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

“Military life in general depraves men. It places them in conditions of complete idleness, that is, absence of all rational and useful work; frees…

— Leo Tolstoy

A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat.

— John Keegan

In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can…

— P. G. Wodehouse

A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic…

— Herman Melville

A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to…

— Robert Frost

Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only…

— Honore de Balzac

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and…

— Alan Brien

What is the use for a man to have at his disposal a large field of action, if within himself he remains confine to…

— African Spir

A military leader often faces a situation he has to deal with, but because it is his duty, no court can try him.

— Albert Kesselring

The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

— Oscar Wilde

Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not…

— Adam Smith