Army Pride Quotes

#1. To proportion the eagerness of contest to its importance seems too hard a task for human wisdom. The pride of wit has kept ages busy in the discussion of useless questions, and the pride of power has destroyed armies, to gain or to keep unprofitable possessions.

Samuel Johnson

#2. All the qualities of a man acquire dignity when he knows that the service of the collectivity that owns him needs them. If proud of the collectivity, his own pride rises in proportion. No collectivity is like an army for nourishing such pride ...

William James

#3. My husband is a former Air Force pilot and my son is an active duty Army surgeon, recently returned from Iraq, so my pride in our military is passionate ... and personal.

Robyn Carr

#4. You must give soldiers reasons to have confidence and pride in themselves, in their leaders, and in their units. Only then will you have loyalty. Loyalty was the primary trait I looked for in soldiers.

George W. Dunaway

#5. His (Washington's) apparent paralysis was the result of balancing two imperatives: his reputation against the survival of the Continental Army.

Joseph J. Ellis

#6. Cathedral Close, when I got to St Leonard's, was emptier than a Sally Army collection box at a Pride festival,

J.L. Merrow

#7. There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it.

Mark Lawrence

#8. Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.

Lewis H. Lapham

#9. I take pride in saying that I am an army officer's daughter even more than being an actor.

Anushka Sharma