War Quotes

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

When the blind man carries the lame man, both go forward.

Swedish Prove

Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life.

Anonymous

The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.

Seneca

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

Robert Bolt

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Aesop, The Dog and the Shadow

There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

Miyamoto Musashi

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Helen Kelle

The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse.

Carlos Castaneda

Toward the accomplishment of an aim, which in wantonness of atrocity would seem to partake of the insane, he will direct a cool judgement, sagacious and sound. These men are madmen, and of the most dangerous sort.

Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailo

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non - Conformist.

Ayn Rand

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If we fight a war and win it with H - Bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.

Hans A. Bethe

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

Johann von Goethe

In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.

Joesph Heller, Catch - 22

Real joy, which comes from loving to do good things without wanting to be repaid, is the reward that lasts forever.

Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine" #155

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

No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace - - In peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.

Croesus of Lydia

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

A coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave just one.

Anonymous

Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.

Patricia Russell - McCloud

The glow of inspiration warms us it is a holy rapture.

Publius Ovidius NasoOvid

This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.

Victoria Lincoln

A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools.

Thucydides

Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Saint Augustine

Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear But around you in awareness.

Ross Hersey

Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.

Dr. Thomas Dooley

He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.

Richard Whatley

The more you sweat during peace, The less you bleed during war.

Brian Wilson

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Henry David Thoreau

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

On a good day, I view the job of president as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch - Engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.

A Bartlett Giamatti

Art is a step from what is obvious and well - Known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Kahlil Gibran

Ready comprehension is often a knee - Jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Mentat Fixe

We must conquer war, or war will conquer us.

Ely Gulbertson

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese prove

Husbands are awkward things to deal with even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.

Mary Lorraine Buckley