War Quotes

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery

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

There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.

Roscoe Snowden

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Kahlil Gibran

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope.

Sextus Julius Frontinus

The idea of all - Out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Seneca

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

James A. Garfield

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

WARNING Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Ellie Katz

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

Sun - Tzu

What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?

William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 Scene 2

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein

Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.

Herman Melville, Moby Dick

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Brian Tracy

Beware the man of one book.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Did you exchange a walk - On part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?

Pink Floyd, song "Wish You Were Here".

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired in the final analysis, is a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and not clothed.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.

Unknown

But penance need not be paid in suffering... It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move.

Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000

Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.

Chinese Prove

In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

Aristotle, Nicomachen Ethics (4th c. BC)

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal, Satires

Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.

Lyndon B. Johnson

My job is to bore you and let the hardness of your seat and the warmth of your robe prepare you for what is to come.

William H. McNeill

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Thomas Alva Edison

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Eric Hoffe

You know what I say to people when I hear they? re writing an anti - war book?? I say, why don? t you write an anti - Glacier book instead? What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter - House 5

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions.

Russell G. Alexande

But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Ernest Hemingway

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

Sir James Glove

Success gravitates toward those who are perceived to be successful. Regardless of how you feel within, you must emanate success if you want to attract people to your cause.

Jeff Herman