John Green Quotes

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

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

There are only two ways to come back from the battlefield: With the head of an enemy or without your own.

In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little.

A game is not won until it is lost.

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.

A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots in the Battle of Britain, of whom Winston Churchill said 'Never have so many owed so much to so few,' - that is worth praising. But for glory alone? I think not.

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.

I like a character that goes on a journey. A character that has had it all, lost it all, and is trying to get back to just being OK. I love the agony of defeat just as much as I love the thrill of victory.

We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

Surviving is the only glory in war.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

It's only a matter of time before it all starts to fall apart, before things start to fall off. Short legs, long body. The kind of person who in the Middle Ages would come up over the hill on his horse, and they'd say, 'Get Wogan,' and I'd be there with my shield, the first to die.

When public rejoicing carries to their families the news of a victory, they will be able to say with the exultation of their enthusiasm: ‘I armed the hand of that valiant man who assures his glory and our liberty’.

The man who brings victory is prized above all others.

Soldiers, you are naked, unfed; the government owes you much but has given you nothing. The patience and courage that you have shown among these rocks are admirable; but it brings you no glory—not a glimmer falls upon you. I will lead you into the most fertile plains in the world. Rich provinces, great cities will be in your power; there you will find honor, glory and riches.

The martyr cannot be dishonored, every lash inflicted is a tongue of flame, every prison a more illustrious abode.