Quotes About Spartans

#1. We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

Rita Mae Brown

#2. Go tell the Spartans, you who passeth by,
That here, obedient to their laws, we lie Poems by Simonides (556 BC - 468 BC)

Ian S Varty

#3. The hardship of the exercises is intended less to strengthen the back than to toughen the mind. The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has its legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.

Steven Pressfield

#4. The wives of Spartans are the secret pillars of the world.
Odd Thomas

Dean Koontz

#5. Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.

Steven Pressfield

#6. Are you sexually active?' 'No. I usually just lie back and think of the Spartans.

Jodi Taylor

#7. For the Spartans, it wasn't walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta was a city of the head and the heart. And it existed in its purest form in the disciplined march of a hoplite phalanx on their way to war!

Bettany Hughes

#8. Spartans... tonight we dine in Hell!

Frank Miller

#9. His goofy grin. I watched my own screen through squinted eyes as the mountain grew with the bodies of Persians and Spartans. When the Persians finally overran the Spartans, I looked over at Augustus again. Even though the good guys had just lost, Augustus seemed downright

John Green

#10. Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had an unusual level of rights. It's a paradox that they were a bunch of people who in many ways were fascist, but they were the bulwark against the fall of democracy.

Frank Miller

#12. Persian envoy "our arrows will black out the sun ... " Dienekes of the Spartans.."Good, then we'll fight in the shade.

Steven Pressfield

#13. A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots in the Battle of Britain, of whom Winston Churchill said 'Never have so many owed so much to so few,' - that is worth praising. But for glory alone? I think not.

Tim O'Reilly

#14. If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.

Adam McKay

#15. A disintegrating individualism had weakened the Athenian character, and left the city a prey at last to the sternly-nurtured Spartans.

Will Durant

#16. Right now, hail to the Michigan State Spartans.

Brent Musburger

#17. The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they.

Plutarch

#18. Among the Spartans all newly born children were subject to a careful examination or selection. All those that were weak, sickly, or affected with any bodily infirmity, were killed. Only the perfectly healthy and strong children were allowed to live, and they alone afterwards propagated the race.

Ernst Haeckel

#19. Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians
lack of power to pronounce the syllable, "No." To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.

Nicolas Chamfort

#20. The Spartans do not enquire how many the enemy are, but where they are.

Agis II

#21. Fear conquers fear. This is how we Spartans do it, counterpoising to fear of death a greater fear: that of dishonor. Of exclusion from the pack.

Steven Pressfield

#22. The great thing about writing about the ancient Spartans or Athenians is that so much knowledge is no longer extant that no one, except maybe a Cambridge or Oxford don, can call you out and prove you wrong.

Steven Pressfield

#23. The King with half the East at heel is marched from lands of morning;
Their fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air.
And he that stands will die for nought, and home there's no returning.
The Spartans on the sea-wet rock sat down and combed their hair.

A.E. Housman

#24. When executives lead as teachers, stewards, and designers, they fill roles that are much more subtle and long-term than those of power-wielding hierarchical leaders.

Peter Senge

#25. When I go on location, we have a schedule. And when you have a schedule, you know when you're not working, so I train very well on location. But I also train three or four times a week at home, but today I train differently than before.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

#26. 4 of us, and 2000 of them. Piss-poor odds. For them.

Eric S. Nylund

#27. The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.'

Mitch Daniels

#28. A nation may be moved by its statesmen and defined by its military but it's usually remembered for its artists.

John Steinbeck

#29. If you take a look around this great big world, every beautiful thing that you see God created.

Heather Wolf

#30. Being in the Spice Girls was an insane experience.

Melanie Chisholm

#31. Do not worry yourself so much. Take joy in things that are joyful, there is no harm in that.

Josi S. Kilpack