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To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.
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heroes
heroic
stand-out
heroism
clever
courage
living
death
motivational
success
life
inspirational
stand
courageous
winning
definition
living-life-to-the-fullest
soldier
warrior
hero
crazy
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Criss Jami |
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I'll tell you what I'm fighting for. Not for England, nor her allies, nor any patriotic cause. It's all come down to the hope of being with you..
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soldier
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Lisa Kleypas |
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a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.
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black-swan
michener
poland
soldier
chance
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James A. Michener |
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There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.
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volunteerism
soldiering
soldier
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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But you can't put fight into a man's guts if he hasn't any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that you can't ever make heroes of us, not even if you frighten us to death. We know too much, maybe. There are some of us who don't live in the moment, who live a little ahead, or a little behind.
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soldier
fight
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Henry Miller |
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"A man is never so vulnerable in a battle as when he flees," Lord Eddard has told Jon once. "A running man is like a wounded animal to a soldier. It gets his bloodlust up."
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fear
soldier
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George R.R. Martin |
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"Home? What is home? Home is where a house is that you come back to when the rainy season is about to begin, to wait until the next dry season comes around. Home is where your woman is, that you come back to in the intervals between a greater love - the only real love - the lust for riches buried in the earth, that are your own if you can find them. Perhaps you do not call it home, even to yourself. Perhaps you call them 'my house,' 'my woman,' What if there was another 'my house,' 'my woman,' before this one? It makes no difference. This woman is enough for now. Perhaps the guns sounded too loud at Anzio or at Omaha Beach, at Guadalcanal or at Okinawa. Perhaps when they stilled again some kind of strength had been blasted from you that other men still have. And then again perhaps it was some kind of weakness that other men still have. What is strength, what is weakness, what is loyalty, what is perfidy? The guns taught only one thing, but they taught it well: of what consequence is life? Of what consequence is a man? And, therefore, of what consequence if he tramples love in one place and goes to find it in the next? The little moment that he has, let him be at peace, far from the guns and all that remind him of them. So the man who once was Bill Taylor has come back to his house, in the dusk, in the mountains, in Anahuac. ("The Moon Of Montezuma")"
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war
strength
cynical
soldier
perfidy
world-war-ii
ww-ii
weakness
noir
home
cynicism
loyalty
ptsd
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Cornell Woolrich |
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It was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline that good soldier should dread his own officers far more than the enemy
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gibbon
soldier
rome
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Edward Gibbon |
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She was a soldier, not some girl twisting her skirts at a village dance.
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love
soldier
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Scott Westerfeld |
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The marine corps teaches you how to be miserable. This is invaluable for an artist. Marines love to be miserable. Marines derive a perverse satisfaction in having colder chow, crappier equipment, and higher casualty rates than any outfit of dogfaces, swabjockies, or flyboys, all of whom they despise. Why? Because those candyasses don't know how to be miserable. The artist committing himself to his calling has to be miserable. The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not, he will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation. The artist must be like that marine: he has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier, or swabbie, or desk jockey, because this is war, baby, and war is hell.
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war
bitterness
soldier
misery
pride
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Steven Pressfield |
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Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but that he was far better than everyone else. That was the only way he could win respect and friendship. It made him a better soldier then he would ever have been otherwise. It also made him lonely, afraid, angry, untrusting. And maybe those traits, too, made him a better soldier.
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loneliness
graff
ender-wiggin
soldier
isolation
resentment
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Orson Scott Card |
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"Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts, -a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments, though it may be, - "Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart were hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot, O'er the grave where our hero we buried."
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humanity
law
soldier
justice
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Henry David Thoreau |
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We were soldiers, but even before we were showed how to kill our enemies, they taught us how to kill ourselves.
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war
soldier
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Ruth Ozeki |
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We are trained fighting machines. Peace is not an option for us. We're jarheads. What the hell do we know about peace?
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jar-head
jar-heads
jarhead
jarheads
marines
trained-fighting-machines
u-s-marines
us-marines
usmc
xlibris
jason-medina
tribal-publications
tribal-publications-inc
soldiers
soldier
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Jason Medina |
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"Do the people in this country approve of this war?" [...]. "Approve? You don't think we'd lie down and let the damned Thuvians walk all over us? Our status as a world power is at stake!" "But I mean the people, not the government. The... the people who must fight." "What's it to them? They're used to mass conscriptions. It's what they're for, my dear fellow! To fight for their country. And let me tell you, there's no better soldier on earth than the Ioti man of the ranks, once he's broken in to taking orders. In peacetime he may spout sentimental pacifism, but the grit's there, underneath. The common soldier hs always been our greatest resource as a nation. It's how we became the leader we are." "By climbing up on a pile of dead children?" [...]. "No,"[...] "you'll find the soul of the people true as steel, when the country's threatened. A few rabble-rousers in Nio and the mill towns make a big noise between wars, but it's grand to see how people close ranks when the flag's in danger. You're unwilling to believe that, I know. The trouble with Odonianism, [...], is that it's womanish. It simply doesn't include the virile side of life. 'Blood and steel, battle's brightness,' as the old poet says. It doesn't understand courage--love of the flag." [...] "That may be true, in part. At least, we have no flags."
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war
soldier
patriotism
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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"-"Why do men like you do the job you do? It can't be for the medals. And it's certainly not the money." Stone said nothing. -"Why then? God and country?" -"Both simpler and more complex, Mr. President." -"What then?" -"So I can look at myself in the mirror."
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duty
soldier
job
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David Baldacci |
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Your Majesty, I am a soldier, not a statesman; and I have no great philosophy but that I love my country. I came because it was my duty as a Christian and a man; now it is my duty to return.
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honesty
inspirational
duty
soldier
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Naomi Novik |
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There is no one who loves peace more than a soldier
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war
soldier
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Philippa Gregory |
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Colonel Fedmahn Kassad knew only that all the great passions of a passionate life had led him to this place and to this moment, and if death awaited him here, then so be it. And if love and glory and a victory that would make Valhalla quake awaited, then so be it.
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passion
love
yperion
valhalla
soldier
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Dan Simmons |