Quotes About Endurance

There are no unwinnable wars.

When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive.

If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.

Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.

War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.

A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.

Most wars are not won in a single battle.

I've fired my last shot. I think I should have another round in my belt.

Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply.

In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.

All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.

We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.

A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted.

If your war is for your existence, fight it right to the end!

Wars can destroy everything but hope!

It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.

I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane.

You speak as if a war were raging." "To the remains of the human race, one is.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

That's the worst of a war--you have to go on hearing about it so long.

The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty years!

Men who fight wars in winter don't live till spring.

Living in war is a co- existence with death.

But I supposed love doesn't stop, even in wars.