Quotes About Combat

Sometimes it takes more courage to get up and run than to stay. You either just do it or you don't. I got so scared the first day in combat I just decided to go along with it.

Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.

Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.

It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.

Courage in danger is half the battle. [Lat., Bonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali.]

If you knew how cowardly your enemy is you would slap him.

Hail Caesar those who are about to die salute thee.

I like the wrestling and executing the throws. My dad was a wrestler and he showed me some of those techniques, too.

I took Jujitsu for four years, which has no striking. My dad had me in Taekwondo when I was a kid, but I didn't retain much of that.

Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.

For one who has really mastered the way of warfare, his enemy can do nothing to escape death.

I'll hit you so hard you'll starve to death rolling!

The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services.

He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The death call carried like a mournful song.

This is a generation of men accustomed to warfare, inured to danger and familiar with cruelty.

Un foie, deux reins, trois raisons d'utiliser la baïonnette.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

To them, therefore, I assign in my speech the first place, and the second to those who fought and conquered in the sea fights at Salamis and Artemisium; for of them, too, one might have many things to say—of the assaults which they endured by sea and land, and how they repelled them.

But this ain't no physical battle we're dealing with, no matter how much you may wish it to be, no matter how much better you'd feel if life was all five-senses and manageable. We are at spiritual war. So we need spiritual weapons.

For those regarded as warriors... When engaged in combat, the vanquishing of thine enemy can be the warrior's only concern. Suppress all human emotion and compassion. Kill whoever stands in thy way, even if that be Lord God or Buddha himself. This truth lies at the heart of the art of combat.

War is intellect.

Tell you what: you can be Glammera the vampire hunter. I'll stick with being manly and heavily armed.

Clumsiness would be just as deadly an opponent.

Chief Hannah Moses," she said. "You must be Mrs. Grant." "Heard of me?" "You left an impression. You may be the first combat librarian I've ever met." That earned an almost-full smile from the other woman. "I think most librarians are combat qualified," she said. "It's not as peaceful a job as it looks.