War Quotes
Geschichte ist... ein Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. re - Transl.: History is... a dialogue between the present and the past.Edward Hallet Carr, Was ist Geschichte?, S. 54
What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
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
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
Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.Joseph Sugarman
Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.Chinese Prove
Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.Johnson
One kind word can warm three winter months.Japanese prove
Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?William Punshon
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
Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.Dr. David M. Burns
And yesterday he would have killed me to get to his foe. But now we serve each other. Only a fool walks into the future backward.Terry Goodkind, "Stone of Tears".
War is like love it always finds a way.Bertolt Brecht
Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.David Pratt
War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.General Smedley Butle
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.Leonard Bernstein
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.Ernest Hemingway
The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - - Never knowing.Jim Rohn
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
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
Cowards do not count in battle they are there, but not in it.Euripides
When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.Helen Kelle
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.John Dryden, Imitation of Horace
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.John Dryden
Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half - Shut afterwards.Benjamin Franklin
If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.Ausonius
April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.T. S. Eliot
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.Rudyard Kipling
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.Jim Rohn
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.Ralph Waldo Emerson
War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.Georges Clemenceau
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.Elizabeth Harrison
No sun - No moon! No morn - No noon - No dawn - No dusk - No proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845), in the poem called No!
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.Kahlil Gibran
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.Margaret Fairless Barbe
