Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old motivational military quotes, motivational military sayings, and motivational military proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
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This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.Elmer Davis
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The military is faithful to the constitution. They will come in only to protect the people from the enemies of the state.Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.Winston S. Churchill
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The military never uses a full word if they can create an abbreviation.Philip Hammond
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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.Norman Schwarzkopf
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.Douglas Macarthur
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Speed is the essence of war. Take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness; travel by unexpected routes and strike him where he has taken no precautions.Sun Tzu
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Unless the soldier's soul sustains him, he cannot be relied on and will fail himself and his country in the end.George C. Marshall
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Nothing raises morale better than a dead general.John Masters
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You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.Barry Goldwater
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Military men are the scourges of the world.Guy De Maupassant
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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.Napoleon Bonaparte
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Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.Napoleon Bonaparte
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The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.Napoleon Bonaparte
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A casualty is a man blown to pieces, disintegrated, nothing left of him but a name on war a memorial.John Terrain
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I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.William Faulkner
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The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.Louis Simpson
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When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.Leonard Matlovich
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When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.George Bernard Shaw
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We don't thrive on military acts. Wed do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.Golda Meir
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The military mind is indeed a menace. Old fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but a stink of battle wounds and blood.Sean O'Casey
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The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots but as a party of bandits.H.L. Mencken
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The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and the army tomorrow.Yakubu Gowon
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Reluctance to use military force is an American military tradition. Since war is ultimately a political act, not a military act, gives political tools the opportunity to work first.Colin Powell
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The military mind always imagines that the next war will be on the same lines as the last. That has never been the case and never will be.Ferdinand Foch
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The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.H.G. Wells
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There is something reassuringly changeless about the capacity of the highest military authorities for getting egg on their face.Lord Chalfont
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From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood and of tyrants and patriots.Thomas Jefferson
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No man is a man until he has been a soldier.Louis de Bernières