War Quotes
Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions.Russell G. Alexande
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.Pythagoras
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.Alford
Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.Orison Swett Marden
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.Van Wyck Brooks
Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.Ronald Reagan
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.Albert Einstein
Wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.John Knowles
The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.Shakti Gawain
Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.John F. Kennedy, Speech to UN General Assembly, Sept. 25, 1961
Endless money forms the sinews of war.Cicero, Philippics
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.Irish Blessing
So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now.William of Baskerville, The Name of the Rose
The family seems to have two predominant functions to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.Donald G. Smith
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.Hemingway
Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.Loren
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.J. Donald Wlters
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - - Not people; to focus your energies on answers - - Not excuses.William Arthur Ward
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.Eric Hoffe
One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.Quentin Crisp
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - - Not people to focus your energies on answers - - Not excuses.William Arthur Ward
The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.G. M. Trevelyan
In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.Francis Bacon
A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.Jacques Maritain
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.William S. Gilbert
The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire, 1947
I know patriotism exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.George Washington
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of others.Niccolo Machiavelli
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.Ernest Hemingway
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.Horace Smith
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, Oct. 26, 1939
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuasive value at all.John Kenneth Galbraith
Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.Queen Elizabeth
Only a fool walks backwards into the future.Terry Goodkind
