War Quotes

I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

Muriel Rukeyse

Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war corruption, his disgrace.

Thomason

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

Felix Adle

We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.

Elliot Wayne Eisne

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Henry Ward Beeche

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.

Barbara de Angelis

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Carl von Clausewitz

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Ronald Reagan

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Plato, The Republic

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

War connot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the others advantage.

Niccolo Machiavelli

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Albert Einstein

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.

Spanish Prove

In war, there are no unwounded solders.

Jose Narosky

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves... We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here - - with its gift of energy and heightened awareness - - So we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams, Life 101

Motivation is an external, temporary high that PUSHES you forward. Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which PULLS you forward.

Thomas Leonard

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

Dave Barry

In life you can never be too kind or too fair everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.

Brian Tracy

Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology.

Dame Rebecca West

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Muriel Spark

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

William Westmoreland

Cowardice asks the question - Is it safe? Vanity asks the question - Is it popular? Expediency asks the question - Is it political? But conscience asks the question - Is it right? There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Jeannette Rankin

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

Van Wyck Brooks

Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Margaret Fulle

A good front is half the battle in love or war.

Kim Hubbard

To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Albert Einstein

The absence of war is not peace.

Harry S Truman

War is like love it always finds a way.

Bertolt Brecht

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Science... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

Thomas Huxley

The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upwards and leads to a perfect forgiveness.

Howard W. Hunter, Speech given in October 1994

One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

Henry Louis Mencken

It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.

Sue Grafton

There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war.

Robert E. Lee

In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.

Edwin P. Whipple