Combat Quote by Sebastian Junger

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

— Luo Guanzhong

I was acquainted once with a gallant soldier who assured me that his only measure of courage was this: upon the first fire, in…

— Laurence Sterne

“Combat is fast, unfair, cruel, and dirty. It is meant to be that way so that the terrible experience is branded into the memory…

— Bruce H. Norton

An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at…

— Ambrose Bierce

“I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valour so far beyond every…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“The ultimate act of bravery does not take place on a battlefield. It takes place in your heart, when you have the courage to…

— Anna Quindlen

“Fighting can be like champagne. It can go to the head of a coward as quickly as of a hero. Anyone has the ability…

— José N. Harris

“The most precious moments of war are the moments where the soldiers remember their ordinary calm lives before the war!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a…

— G.K. Chesterton

Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your…

— Anna Quindlen

“What mattered in combat, what really mattered, was not only understanding why you asked men to risk their lives, but making them understand. Men…

— Mark Bowden

“Sometime bravery involves giving up everything you have ever known... but sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting you're teeth through…

— Veronica Roth