Quotes About Generals And Soldiers

#1. Only those who love with the heart can animate the love of others.

Abel Stevens

#2. Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

Max Frisch

#3. Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#4. Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.

Alexander Pope

#5. T's one of history's many valuable lessons: the foot soldiers tend to be the casualties in any conflict, not the generals.

Mark Mills

#6. The way you see life will largely determine what you get out of it.

Zig Ziglar

#7. Were civilization itself to be estimated by some of its results, it would seem perhaps better for what we call the barbarous part of the world to remain unchanged.

Herman Melville

#8. > ... all I could think was what hell it is for the survivors when death slams into life without warning and smashes every fixed point on the emotional map.

Susan Howatch

#9. Today's liberals wish to disarm us so they can run their evil and oppressive agenda on us. The fight against crime is just a convenient excuse to further their agenda. I don't know about you, but if you hear that Williams' guns have been taken, you'll know Williams is dead.

Walter E. Williams

#10. [A] military force was collected in Europe, formidable by their arms and numbers, if the generals had understood the science of command, and the soldiers the duty of obedience.

Edward Gibbon

#11. There is such an equality among them that the officers have no authority. The privates are all generals, but not soldiers.

Bernard Law Montgomery

#12. I have so much respect for athletes like LeBron James. I get motivation from them because I know how many hours they put into it. It takes a lot of hard work and drive.

Ciara

#13. The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.

Steven Berkoff

#14. Brains will always conquer brawn, in the end. The soldiers can flex their muscles all they want, but the well-thought-out tactics of the generals are what win the war.

Patrick Hall

#15. All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#16. The clear suggestion is that there ought not to be civilian control of the military. What have callow noncombatants giving brisk orders to grizzled soldiers? How could Lincoln have fired the slavery-loving Gen. George B. McClellan, or Truman dismissed the glorious Douglas MacArthur?

Christopher Hitchens

#17. Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#18. So rather than spending my golden years searching for the meaning of my life, I rather believe I'll just keep on trying to make some meaning out of my life right up until I pitch over nose first into the dirt for that little nap. - Tom King (I Ain't Afraid of No Grim Reaper)

Tom King

#19. When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Jake Steinfeld

#20. The Continental army got more generals than they got private soldiers, these days. An officer lives through more 'n two battles, they make him some kind of general on the spot. Now, gettin' any pay for it, that's a different kettle of fish.

Diana Gabaldon

#21. Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady," he remarked on suitable occasion. "Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#22. Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.

Cokie Roberts

#23. American soldiers were dying in frigid Korea. One of our greatest generals told us that the president and his team were not trying to win. And some strident voices were saying that that was because they didn't want to win,

William J. Bennett

#24. In the presence of Jesus in the Holy Sacrament we ought to be like the Blessed in heaven before the Divine Essence

Teresa Of Avila

#25. I don't understand why people enjoy different things than I do, so I'm going to make a passive aggressive comment about it.

Anonymous

#26. I've seen every one, from Motley Crue to John Denver, with tears running down my face. I had no idea everyone had such a hard time.

Stevie Nicks

#27. The English soldier was probably the worst-treated soldier in Europe, and judging from the English casualty rates during the Napoleonic wars, English generals were more lavish with their soldiers' lives than were their French and German colleagues.

J. Christopher Herold

#28. I laugh, mirthless, a mad laugh. I savor the scowl on her face, the hate in her eyes. She was like a machine; she was cold and emotionless, bound by logic alone. And I broke her.

Veronica Roth

#29. Those renowned generals [Alexander and Caesar] received more faithful service, and performed greater actions by means of the love their soldiers bore them, than they could possibly have done, if instead of being beloved and respected they had been hated and feared by those they commanded.

Benjamin Franklin

#30. I let the music set the tone of the lyrics.I allowed myself to write more about relationships and emotions, in a girly way almost.

Jose Gonzalez