Henry David Thoreau Quotes

As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.

In 1967, I signed up for the Army, where I earned an equivalency diploma, then went on to join the Special Forces. That was really was the turning point in my life. I became more disciplined and focused. I went overseas and was in combat, got wounded a couple of times, lost a lot of good friends but matured a great deal.

A warrior never gives in to fear when he is searching for what he needs. Without love, he is nothing.

Nothing fires the warrior’s heart more with courage than to find himself and his comrades at the point of annihilation, at the brink of being routed and overrun, and then to dredge not merely from one’s own bowels or guts but from one’s discipline and training the presence of mind not to panic, not to yield to the possession of despair, but instead to complete those homely acts of order which Dienekes had ever declared the supreme accomplishment of the warrior: to perform the commonplace under far-from-commonplace conditions.

The warrior of light only risks his heart for something worthwhile.

Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.

Don't try to be brave when it is enough to be intelligent.

No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.

The Warrior of the Light knows that everyone is afraid of everyone else.

Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive - so wisdom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior.

A Warrior often loses heart.

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

A warrior does not beg for his life. ~Izuru Kira

Not all men were meant to dance with dragons.

A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power.

I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

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.

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

We must be brief when traitors brave the field.

No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them.

HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.

Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.

India was not a pacifist country at all. India placed great emphasis on the higher value on... on violence. But it was never a substitute for not doing anything, or for cowardice.

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

In the intervals between battles, the Warrior rests.