Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger.

God has given man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death.

I am always in front, and in time of battle am never behind.

O God of battles! steel my soldiers’ hearts. Possess them not with fear.

No man was ever a good soldier but the man who goes into the battle determined to conquer, or not to come back from the battle field (cheers). No other principle makes a good soldier.

Victory is the main object in war.

Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.

Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.

Brave is good - especially when you are a soldier.

It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

Surviving is the only glory in war.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Only destruction of the enemy can be called victory.

Military glory—the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.

Infantry, Artillery, Aviation--all that we have--are yours to dispose of as you will.... I have come to say to you that the American people would be proud to be engaged in the greatest battle in history.

I shall hurl the first spear at the foe. If any man can stand at rest while Attila fights, he is a dead man.

Why should fortune have made the Huns victorious over so many nations unless it where to prepare them for the joy of this conflict?

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger: Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit To his full height!