Ambition Quote by William Shakespeare

Ambition, the soldier's virtue.

— William Shakespeare

“Who does i'the wars more than his captain can Becomes his captain's captain: and ambition, The soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, Than…

— William Shakespeare

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

— George Santayana

And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had…

— Stephen Crane

He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or offences, delivers…

— Samuel Johnson

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting…

— John Keegan

However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country…

— Douglas MacArthur

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

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Honer and self sacrifice. Death does not diminish these qualities in a soldier. We shall remember.

— Anonymous

“He'd been a successful soldier, as these things went; he'd generally been on the winning side, and had killed more of the enemy by…

— Terry Pratchett

The warrior knows that he is free to choose his desires, and he makes these decisions with courage, detachment, and - sometimes - with…

— Paulo Coelho

...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and…

— Russell Kirk