Soldier Quotes

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. (Pablo Picasso)
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every lover is a soldier. View quote
Ovid
India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. View quote
Hu Shih
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen. View quote
George Washington
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not. View quote
Lester B. Pearson
The German soldier has astonished the world; the Italian Bersagliere has astonished the German soldier. View quote
Erwin Rommel
Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea. (Samuel Johnson)
If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable. View quote
Wilfred Owen
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive"; or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture-in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. View quote
Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for. View quote
Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
My faith in human dignity consists in the belief that man is the greatest scamp on earth. Human dignity must be associated with the idea of a scamp and not with that of an obedient, disciplined and regimented soldier. View quote
Lin Yutang
The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession. View quote
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
What can a soldier do who charges when out of breath? View quote
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them. View quote
Marlene Dietrich
Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers. View quote
Walter Scott
Soldier rest thy warfare oer, Sleep the sleep thast knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more, Days of danger, nights of waking. (Walter Scott)
What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier. View quote
Walter Scott
For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved. View quote
Cyprian
I would have been a disastrous soldier. View quote
Max Hastings
I am a member of the Peace Society because I was a soldier: because I have fought and seen what war is like from personal experience. It was on the battlefield that I pledged myself to the cause of peace. View quote
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta