1. Be committed to your job
- Leonidas: You, what is your profession?
- Arcadian Soldier: I'm a potter, sir.
- Leonidas: And you, Arcadian, what is your profession?
- Arcadian Soldier: I'm a sculptor.
- Leonidas: And you?
- Arcadian Soldier: I'm a blacksmith.
- Leonidas: [Turning towards the Spartans] Spartans! What is your profession?
- Spartans: Harooh! Harooh! Harooh!
- Leonidas: See old friend, I brought more soldiers than you did.
- Persian Emissary: The thousand nations of the Persian Empire descend upon you! Our arrows will blot out the sun!
- Stelios: [grins] Then we will fight in the shade.
- Xerxes: Imagine what horrible fate awaits my enemies when I would gladly kill any of my own men for victory.
- Leonidas: And I would die for any one of mine.