Alexander Suvorov Quotes

Hard training - easy combat; easy training - hard combat.

If we are going to win the next war, in my opinion, 50 percent of the time of training should be allotted to night training.

It can’t be any other than madness to commence hostilities before we have established resources on a sure plan for certain and effectual military supplies. Men in that case will not be wanting.

Upon the fields of friendly strife Are sown the seeds, That, upon other fields, on other days, Will bear the fruits of victory.

The Principle aim of physical education is military heroism

Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It's the sweeter the victory

Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.

It's easy to dream about it ... Much harder to execute it ....Work!

a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.

The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the point where it's easy that's hard. The hard part is to get there.

I've always had the fantasy of doing a boot camp for a military film, at some point. I've always wanted to know what the experience is like, to feel that mounting pressure of going off to war and needing to be so present and physically aware of your body because you ultimately need to fight for your life and for your country.

Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.

If things don't come easy to you, you have to pull a rabbit out of a hat.

Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.

And down the dunes a thousand guns lie crouched,Unseen, beside the flood -Like tigers in some Orient jungle crouchedThat wait and watch for blood.Meanwhile, through streets still echoing with trade,Walk grave and thoughtful men,Whose hands may one day wield the patriot's bladeAs lightly as the pen.

To think about and prepare for war is boring, boring for everyone. It's being locked in barracks.

A hard drill makes an easy battle.

But the enemy has the move, and he is about to open his full game. And pawns are as likely to see as much of it as any. Sharpen your blade!

If achieving success were easy, more people would do it.

This isn't going to be easy," I grumbled as we headed toward the exit. Bones shrugged. "Nothing worthwhile ever is.

There's no easy quick way out, we're gonna have to live through our whole lives, win, lose, or draw.

To expect ... the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never did and perhaps never will happen. Men, who are familiarized to danger, meet it without shrinking; whereas troops unused to service often apprehend danger where no danger is.

I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.