106 Movie Quotes about Soldiers (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: Mar 23, 2026

Memorable quotes about soldiers, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

21 If you want to help in a Spartan victory, clear the battlefield of the dead, tend the wounded, bring them water, but as for the fight itself, I cannot use you.

Gerard Butler as King Leonidas in 300

22 One of the truest utterances of the great French general, Marshal Foch, was his statement to a group of his espionage agents. 'You will die a thousand deaths, before oblivion comes, while the man in the trenches dies but once.'

Robert Montgomery as Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps (1937)

23 You stole your father's armor, ran away from home, impersonated a soldier...

Pat Morita as The Emperor Of China in Mulan (1998)

24 Why is that soldier strapped to an explosive device?

Tom Hanks as Sheriff Woody in Toy Story (1995)

25 Oh, my soldiers, how long I've thirsted to be a god among mortal men.

John Hurt as The Horned King in The Black Cauldron

26 I am sorry, my friend, but not all of us were made to be soldiers.

Gerard Butler as King Leonidas in 300

27 So heed my word! 'Cause if the army finds out you're a girl, the penalty is death!

Eddie Murphy as Mushu in Mulan (1998)

28 An assault on the king's soldiers is the same as an assault on the king himself.

Mel Gibson as William Wallace in Braveheart (1995)

29 Do you wanna surf, soldier? -Yes, sir. -That's good, son, 'cause you either surf or fight. That clear? Now get going.

Robert Duvall as Lt. Col. William Bill Kilgore in Apocalypse Now

30 He had only two ways home: death or victory.

Martin Sheen as Captain Benjamin Willard in Apocalypse Now