Soldiers quotes

12 quotes

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

H. L. Mencken

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Colin Powell

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Douglas MacArthur

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

Virginia Woolf

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it… You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Will Rogers

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

An army marches on its stomach.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

Charles Spurgeon

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

Huey Newton

Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.

Alexander the Great

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca