War Quotes
Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.Jerry Coleman
Cowards die many times before their deathsThe valiant never taste of death but once.William Shakespeare
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.Andr Gide
The outcome of the war is in our hands the outcome of words is in the council.Home
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure, the process is its own reward.Robyn Davidson
Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.Thomas S. Szasz
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.Earl Nightingale
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.Joseph Conrad
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.Edmund Spenser, 1590
He grounds the warship he walks on.John Bracken on Captain Barney Kelly, who ran the USS Enterprise into the mud of San Francisco Bay in May 1983
It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who would profit by the old order, only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new.Machiavelli
Beware of over - Great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.Margaret Fulle
In war, you win or lose, live or die - And the difference is just an eyelash.General Douglas MacArthu
When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people. The more alert and sensitive we are to our own needs, the more loving and generaous we can be toward others.Eda LeShan
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
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right - About - Face which turns us from failure towards success.Dorthea Bragg
Tonight - To you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. On his Vietnam War policy.Richard Milhous Nixon
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.William Shakespeare
Beware the flatterer: he feeds you with an empty spoon.Cosino DeGregrio
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.John Adams
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.John Berge
Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure Is there a better way to die.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
We are just tenants on this world. We have just been given a new lease, and a warning from the landlord.Arthur C. Clarke, 2010
The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.Nelson Boswell
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.Confucius
God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.Kahlil Gibran
It is a curious fact that when we get sick we want an uncommon doctor... When we get into a war, we dreadfully want an uncommon admiral and an uncommon general. Only when we get into politics are we content with the common man.Herbert Clark Hoove
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy
When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him.R. A. Lafferty
Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.Woody Allen
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.George Bernard Shaw
When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Metaphors are the weapons of cowards.Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)
