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Quotes About Sacrifice

I was born as a soldier and will die as one.
~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.
~ William Lyon Mackenzie King
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
~ George Washington
Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman.
~ Jean Giraudoux
In the Army, I was running for India and I was a soldier who could have died for India.
~ Milkha Singh
Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.
~ Wilhelm Keitel
A true woman always loves a real soldier.
~ Belle Boyd
I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.
~ John Ratzenberger
Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat.
~ Max Cleland
I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.
~ Andrei Platonov
There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.
~ James Callaghan
I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier.
~ John Eisenhower
'The Wall' doesn't recount a specific soldier's experience in Iraq, but it captures the spirit of many experiences that were shared with me and with Aaron Taylor-Johnson and with John Cena.
~ Doug Liman
I'm a combat soldier.
~ Richard Ojeda
My parents, they grew up in a time when there was war in Korea. And my grandmother, her husband, my grandfather, was a soldier and he died in the war. A lot of people in that generation, they didn't go to schools. My grandmother couldn't read; she didn't finish beyond elementary school.
~ Lee Isaac Chung
I know what soldiers or their families go through.
~ Anushka Sharma
I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.
~ John B. Hood
The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.
~ Jean Giraudoux
I feel that our country's real heroes are our brave soldiers who leave their families to protect our land.
~ Sonu Sood
From the depths of the Pacific to the deserts of Iraq, more than a million American soldiers, Airmen, midshipmen, and Marines have laid down their lives for their friends, their families and our nation.
~ Bill Flores
Stories have a special way of putting us inside the people, inside the boots of the soldiers. You're absorbed in a way a documentary or nonfiction can't do for you.
~ Tim O'Brien
Most of the other soldiers were older than me and sent money back to their families, so they were more prudent.
~ William Klein
I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.
~ Siegfried Sassoon