Best Army Quotes! 100+ Inspirational & Motivational Army Quotes

Best Army Quotes

  • “Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.” —Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • “Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” —Benjamin Franklin
  • “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” —Dwight D Eisenhower
  • “Even a phone call that lasts a couple minutes or seconds can make your day or entire week.” —Military Moments
  • “Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they have been given.” —Orson Scott Card, Enders Game
  • “It is hard to lead a calvary charge if you think you look funny on a horse.” —Adlai E Stephenson
  • “Discipline is the soul of an Army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to all of the weak, and esteem to all.” —George Washington
  • “I am not afraid of an Army of lions lead by a sheep; I am afraid of sheep lead by a lion.” —Alexander the Great
  • “None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.” —Thomas Jefferson
  • “The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” —Albert Einstein
  • “No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in a time of peace or ensure it of victory in time of war” – Calvin Coolidge
  • “On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind .” —Dan Lipinski
  • “The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.” —Dwight D Eisenhower
  • “The soldier is the Army. No Army is better than its soldiers. The soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country.” —George S Patton
  • “Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost their confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either is a failure of leadership.” —Colin Powell
  • “America’s fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers who have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.” —Allen Boyd

Heart-touching Quotes From Indian Army

  • “Some goals are so worthy, it’s glorious even to fail.” —Capt Manoj Kumar Pandey — PVC 1/11 Gorkha Rifles
  • “We fight to win and win with a knock out, because there are no runners up in war.” — General JJ Singh”
  • “I won’t die in an accident or die of any disease I will go down in Glory.” —Major Sudhir Kumar Walia
  • If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or is a Gurkha.” —Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw
  • “No Sir, I will not abandon my tank. My gun is still working and I will get these bastards.” —Lt. Arun Kehtarpal, PVC
  • “There will be no withdrawal without written orders and these orders shall never be issued.” —Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw as Core Commander in 1962
  • “Either I will come back after hoisting the tricolor, or I will come back wrapped in it, but I will be back for sure.” —Capt. Vikram Batra, PVC
  • “The enemy are only 50 yards from us. We are heavily outnumbered. We are under devastating fire. I shall not withdraw an inch but will fight to our last man and our last round.” —Major Somnath Sharma — 4th Battalion,Kumaon Regiment
  • “I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish a mortar from a motor; a gun from a howitzer; a guerrilla from a gorilla, although a great many resemble the latter.” —Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw

Inspirational and Motivational Army Quotes

  • “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” —A.A. Milne
  • “Military spouses find their strength along the way. Everyone began frightened of distance, deployment, and the unknown.” —The Seasoned Spouse
  • “She stood in the storm. And when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.” —Elizabeth Edwards
  • “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.” —The Little Prince
  • “Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.” —Dwight D. Eisenhower

Motivational Quotes by Indian Army

  • “No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussion.” —Subhas Chandra Bose
  • “Some goals are so worthy, it’s glorious even to fail.” —Capt Manoj Kumar Pandey
  • “I regret I have only one life to give for my country.” —Prem Ramchandani
  • “We live by chance, we love by choice, We kill by profession.” —Officers’ Training Academy, Chennai.
  • “We fight to win and win with a knockout because there are no runners-up in war.” —General JJ Singh
  • “If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or is a Gurkha—Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw
  • “Quartered in snow, silent to remain. When the bugle calls, they shall rise and march again.” —Scroll of honour at Siachen base camp
  • “Either I will come back after hoisting the tricolour, or I will come back wrapped in it, but I will be back for sure.” —Capt. Vikram Batra, PVC
  • “Do not lament the death of a warrior in the battlefield. As those who sacrifice their lives in the war are honoured in the heaven.” —In honour of KM Cariappa
  • “You have never lived until you have almost died, and for those who choose to fight, Life has a special flavour, the protected will never know.” —Capt. R Subramanium, Kirti Chakra (Posthumously)

Powerful Indian Army Quotes

  • “Ye Dil Maange More…” —Captain Vikram Batra (Param Vir Chakra)
  • “Sleep peacefully at your homes. Indian Army is guarding the frontiers.”
  • “Only the best of friends and the worst of enemies visit us.”
  • “What is a lifetime adventure for you is a daily routine for us.”
  • “We live by chance, we love by choice, and we kill by profession.”
  • “It is God’s duty to forgive the enemies, but it’s our duty to convene a meeting between the two.”
  • “If death strikes before I prove my blood, I promise, I will kill death.” — Captain Manoj Pandey (Param Vir Chakra)
  • “Gentlemen, I have arrived and there will be no withdrawal without written orders and these orders shall never be issued.” —Sam Manekshaw
  • “Our flag does not fly because the wind moves it, it flies with the last breath of each soldier who died protecting it.”
  • “No, Sir! I will not abandon my tank. My main gun is still working and I will get these bastards.” —Second Lieutenant Arun Khetarpal, (Param Vir Chakra)
  • “The enemies are only 50 yards from us. We are heavily outnumbered. We are under devastating fire. I shall not withdraw an inch but will fight to our last man and our last round.” —Major Somanth Sharma (Param Vir Chakra)

Army Quotes on Courage

  • “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” —Nora Ephron
  • “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” —E.E. Cummings
  • “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” —Winston S. Churchill
  • “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” —Maya Angelou
  • “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” —J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Army Quotes on Bravery

  • “The best way out is always through.” —Robert Frost
  • “Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.” —Paulo Coelho
  • “Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.” —Franklin P. Jones
  • “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” —E.E. Cummings
  • “Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don’t fail forever.” —Lana Del Rey
  • “I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.” —Jim Mattis
  • “It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.” —Horace
  • “The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.” —Thucydides

Army Quotes for Moving

  • “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” —Dr. Seuss
  • “You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you.” —Kiera Cass
  • “There are far better things ahead than we ever leave behind.” —C.S. Lewis
  • “It takes a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye.” —Unknown

Quotes on Patriotism

  • “Patriotism demands of us sustained sacrifice.” —Chiang Kai-shek
  • “Take patriotism away, and the nation’s soul has fled.” —Edward Mark Deems
  • “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” —Winston Churchill
  • “It is the pride of my heart to have been one of the earliest adopted sons of America.” —Marquis de Lafayette
  • “Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.” —Woodrow Wilson

Army Quotes on Thankfulness

  • “Silent gratitude isn’t very much use to anyone.” —Gertrude Stein
  • “We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.” —H.A. Ironside
  • “Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” —Voltaire
  • “Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.” —Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” —John F. Kennedy

Army Quotes on Gratitude

  • “Gratitude and attitude are not challenges; they are choices.” —Robert Braathe
  • “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” —Willie Nelson
  • “It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment.” —Naomi Williams
  • “Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.” —Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
  • “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” —Oprah Winfrey
  • “These Marines left their home–all these great Americans left their home–signed up during a time of war and said, ‘I wanna do that.’ And we owe them so much gratitude. I am so, so proud. And they understand that in our profession there can be no second place. There can be no losing. Because the weight of our nation rests on their shoulders.” —Sergeant Major Bradley Kasal

Army Quotes for Deployment

  • “Distance means so little when someone means so much.” —Unknown
  • “True love doesn’t mean being inseparable; it means being separated and nothing changes.” —Unknown
  • “When we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.” —Winnie the Pooh

Army Quotes on Perseverance

  • “Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.” —Victor Hugo
  • “Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.” —Samuel Johnson
  • “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” —John Quincy Adams
  • “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” —Walter Elliot
  • “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” —Newt Gingrich
  • “There are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to go” – General Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller

Short Army Quotes

  • “An army marches on its stomach.” —Napoleon Bonaparte
  • “The army teaches boys to think like men.”
  • “If goods don’t cross borders, armies will.” —Frederic Bastiat
  • “I feel an army in my fist.” —Friedrich Schiller
  • “Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.” —Alexander Hamilton
  • “The Army is the true nobility of our country.” —Napoleon Bonaparte
  • “Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.” —Napoleon Bonaparte
  • “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” —Thomas Paine
  • “A safe army is better than a safe border.” —B.R. Ambedkar
  • “I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.” —Abraham Lincoln
  • “Ten soldiers lead wisely will beat a hundred without a head.” —Euripides
  • “Behind every dreamer stands an army full of true believers.” —Chris Burkmenn
  • “They be marching hand in hand, like going to war.” —Alice Walker
  • “I’m not a leader now. I’m a whole damn army.” —Joss Whedon
  • “No army has ever done so much with so little.” — Douglas MacArthur
  • “The history of a soldier’s wound beguiles the pain of it.” —Laurence Sterne
  • “Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.” —Joseph Stalin
  • “An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.” —Thomas Paine
  • “It is fatal to enter a war without the will to win it.” —Douglas MacArthur
  • “Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.” —George S. Patton
  • “A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.” —James Madison
  • “Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men.” —Sun Tzu
  • “The army is at once the worst place for egoists, and the best.” —Anthony Powell
  • “What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.” —Utah Phillips
  • “I can’t expect loyalty from the army if I do not give it.” —George C Marshall

Army Quotes and Sayings

  • “He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.” —William Tecumseh Sherman
  • “Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.” —Henri Barbusse
  • “There is strong. There is Army Strong. And then there is Army Wife Strong.” —Aditi Mathur Kumar
  • “You don’t want captains in the army who know too much or think too much.” —Robert Graves
  • “Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must.”
  • “The army was kept in as good state of fitness as the funds would allow.” —John Updike
  • “An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.” —Mao Zedong
  • “Without discipline the Army would just be a bunch of guys wearing the same color clothing.” —Frank Burns
  • “Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.”
  • “An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth.”
  • “A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can’t find in an army without morale.” —Jalal Talabani
  • “An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.” —Alfred de Vigny
  • “When armies are mobilized and issues joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will win.” —Lao Tzu
  • “Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.” —Samuel Johnson
  • “The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.” —Henry A. Kissinger
  • “The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.” —Edward Gibbon
  • “The army is always the same. The sun and the moon change. The army knows no seasons.” —Frank S. Nugent
  • “A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.” —Gen George S. Patton
  • “There is only one Army in which you serve. When that identity is gone, it is gone forever.” —Stanley A. McChrystal
  • “A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won’t get a bikini wax.” —Rita Rudner
  • “The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.” —A. J. P. Taylor
  • “If I could tell soldiers one thing, it would be: have faith. Faith in the Army, the leadership, and their own ability.” —Robert E. Hall
  • “National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.” —J. F. C. Fuller
  • “I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.” —Alexander The Great
  • “Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they’ll be called on to do before the next chance.” —Lois McMaster Bujold
  • “If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.” —Sun Tzu
  • “You must give soldiers reasons to have confidence and pride in themselves, in their leaders, and in their units. Only then will you have loyalty. Loyalty was the primary trait I looked for in soldiers.” —George W. Dunaway