Quotes About The Warrior Ethos

#1. The "Warrior Ethos" emphasizes placing the mission first, not accepting defeat, and being disciplined physically and mentally. Why? Because an American Soldier is a "guardian of freedom and the American way of life.

Dan Smee

#2. The Bhagavad-Gita changes this. It takes the Warrior Ethos and elevates it to a loftier and nobler plane - the plane of the individual's inner life, to his struggle to align himself with his own higher nature.

Steven Pressfield

#3. The best fighter is never angry.

Lao-Tzu

#4. 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

#5. If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.

Charles Caleb Colton

#6. No one goes unaffected by the aftereffects of war. How we embrace this truth shall determine our path into the future.

Lawrence Winters

#7. I'm a man without a country. Or I'm a man with too many countries-you pick. Ultimately, in both global politics and the high school power hierarchy, they amount to the same thing.

Ally Carter

#8. Believe me, I would much rather get three outs on three pitches than three outs on nine pitches, because that's going to make me that much stronger at the end of the game. My pitching philosophy is simpe. I believe in getting the ball over the plate and not walking a lot of men.

Bob Gibson

#9. Almighty Lord deliver us from every hidden trap.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness.

Carlos Castenada

#11. The evening's rain had woken a hundred sleeping smells and made them ripe and strong again

George R R Martin

#12. That was not the professional hatred of one warrior for another in the heat of battle, in which even beneath the hatred there still existed a certain begrudging respect.

Raymond E. Feist

#13. However, Americans have created a system in which wealth is created with hard work, innovation, talent and enterprise. People who display these qualities move up in life.

Chetan Bhagat

#14. If it is true that nature abhors a vacuum, then criminality regards it as a business opportunity.

John Connolly

#15. Never think taking a life is easy. Do that and in a way they win.

Raymond E. Feist

#16. Recently, I went to a disco with friends, and all the young people were saying, 'Dudamel, we want to go to your concert, but it's impossible because it's sold out.' It's really amazing.

Gustavo Dudamel

#17. Of course he was afraid of war. Only fools are not. Anaxantis was no fool. He was fully prepared to fight, but only as a last resort.

Andrew Ashling

#18. My wish for you, Kallistos, is that you survive as many battles in the flesh as you have already fought in your imagination. Perhaps then you will acquire the humility of a man and bear yourself no longer as the demigod you presume yourself to be.

Steven Pressfield

#19. Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.

Junipero Serra

#20. As a civilian, I know nothing about combat, the Marine Corps experience or modern man's struggle adjusting to peace after war. I only know what's been shared with me; confidences I would never betray, nor use as details in a novel.

Tiffany Madison

#21. You have never tasted freedom, friend," Dienekes spoke, "or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.

Steven Pressfield

#22. Motivation is the essence of human progress.

Yahya Mohamed

#23. Nobody puts baby in a corner. Nobody.

Rachel Van Dyken