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Top 100 Military Quotes (2025 Update)

Military Quotes: “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” — Sun Tzu
Military Quotes: “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” — Sun Tzu
Military Quotes: “Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.” — George S. Patton Jr.
Military Quotes: “When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.” — Sun Tzu
Military Quotes: “Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.” — Sun Tzu
Military Quotes: “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” — Sun Tzu
Military Quotes: “The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.” — Sun Tzu
Military Quotes: “Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.” — Sun Tzu
Military Quotes: “You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.” — Winston Churchill
Military Quotes: “When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.” — Sun Tzu
Military Quotes: “Do not engage an enemy more powerful than you. And if it is unavoidable and you do have to engage, then make sure you engage it on your terms, not on your enemy’s terms.” — Sun Tzu
Military Quotes: “The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.” — Sun Tzu
Military Quotes: “What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy’s strategy.” — Sun Tzu
Military Quotes: “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other guy die for his.” — George S. Patton Jr.
Military Quotes: “Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.” — Sun Tzu
Military Quotes: “Humble words and increased preparations are signs that the enemy is about to advance. Violent language and driving forward as if to the attack are signs that he will retreat.” — Sun Tzu
Military Quotes: “Without harmony in the State, no military expedition can be undertaken; without harmony in the army, no battle array can be formed.” — Sun Tzu
Military Quotes: “Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.” — Jocko Willink
Military Quotes: “We will either find a way or make one.” — Hannibal
Military Quotes: “The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them.  They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care.  Either case is a failure of leadership.” — Colin Powell
Military Quotes: “Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.” — George S. Patton Jr.
Military Quotes: “The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.” — Sun Tzu
Military Quotes: “Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.” — George S. Patton Jr.
Military Quotes: “If you can’t do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.” — William H. McRaven
Military Quotes: “Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.” — Jocko Willink
Military Quotes: “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military Quotes: “Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military Quotes: “My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.” — Bernard Law Montgomery
Military Quotes: “Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.” — Sun Tzu
Military Quotes: “You must be single minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided.” — George S. Patton Jr.
Military Quotes: “When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.” — Abdul Kalam
Military Quotes: “Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious.” — Sun Tzu
Military Quotes: “In case of doubt, attack.” — George S. Patton Jr.
Military Quotes: “There are routes not to be followed, armies not to be attacked, citadels not to be besieged, territory not to be fought over.” — Sun Tzu
Military Quotes: “If, however, you are indulgent, but unable to make your authority felt; kind-hearted, but unable to enforce your commands; and incapable, moreover, of quelling disorder: then your soldiers must be likened to spoilt children; they are useless for any practical purpose.” — Sun Tzu
Military Quotes: “A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.” — George S. Patton Jr.
Military Quotes: “Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress.” — Sun Tzu
Military Quotes: “No one ever drowned in sweat.” — United States Marine Corps
Military Quotes: “Go into emptiness, strike voids, bypass what he defends, hit him where he does not expect you.” — Sun Tzu
Military Quotes: “A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.” — George S. Patton Jr.
Military Quotes: “If we do not wish to fight, we can prevent the enemy from engaging us even though the lines of our encampment be merely traced out on the ground. All we need to do is to throw something odd and unaccountable in his way.” — Sun Tzu
Military Quotes: “The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.” — Colin Powell
Military Quotes: “Amateurs study tactics; professionals study logistics.” — Omar N. Bradley
Military Quotes: “The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.” — Sun Tzu
Military Quotes: “We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.” — Ronald Reagan
Military Quotes: “Without victory there is no survival!” — Winston Churchill
Military Quotes: “We are forever indebted to those who have given their lives that we might be free.” — Ronald Reagan
Military Quotes: “Logistics comprises the means and arrangements which work out the plans of strategy and tactics. Strategy decides where to act; logistics brings the troops to this point.” — Antoine-Henri Jomini
Military Quotes: “To secure peace is to prepare for war.” — Carl von Clausewitz
Military Quotes: “If you are situated at a great distance from the enemy, and the strength of the two armies is equal, it is not easy to provoke a battle, and fighting will be to your disadvantage.” — Sun Tzu
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