War Quotes

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Juvenal, Satires
Herbert clark hoove - many years ago, i concluded that a few hair...
Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.
Unknown
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - But that could change.
Dan Quayle, 5/22/89
Endicott peabody - remember! things in life will not always run...
Osho, my way: the way of the white clouds - if people become ecstatic the whole society will...
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
E. B. White
Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.
Frances Rodman
She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me; Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.
Hartley Coleridge
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green - Eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
Life is an escalator You can move forward or backward you can not remain still.
Patricia Russell - McCloud
Dick, frankly you do not have the war plan... which makes me quite happy.
Donald Rumsfeld, 1st briefing after "shock and awe" started
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Caine
Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, et cetera it is the ego they cannot forgo.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
There never was a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Hemingway
As we grow old? the beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
Robert Southey
I cherish the Franco - German cooperation as one of the most important developments in post - war Europe. But I will not accept is as being so sacrosanct that the rest of us shall simply adapt to what is decided between Paris and Berlin.
Uffe Ellemann - Jensen, President, ELDR 1995 - 2000, Foreign Minister 1982 - 1993, Nordic Embassies in Berlin 23 September 2003
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first then seek to win.
Sun Tzu
A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
Denis Diderot
History is a vast early warning system.
Norman Cousins
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.
Benjamin Disraeli
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving.
Ulysses S. Grant
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.
Cicero
Some of the most rewarding and beautiful moments of a friendship happen in the unforeseen open spaces between planned activities. It is important that you allow these spaces to exist.
Christine Leefeldt
When a miracle happens, even if not to you, its nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face.
Hugh Elliott
When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.
The Work of the Chariot
Only cowards insult dying majesty.
Aesop
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
Friedrich Von Schlegel
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop, The Dog and the Shadow
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.
Ernest Hemingway
This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.
Zig Zigla
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
Baltasar Gracian
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.
Eric Hoffe
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Henry Mille
From this day forward until the end of the world... we in it shall be remembered... we band of brothers.
William Shakespeare, Henry V.
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt.
Kahlil Gibran
Heaven - Born, the soul a heavenward course must hold beyond the world she soars the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend.
Michelangelo Buonarroti