War Quotes

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.

Albert Camus

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.

Nelson Boswell

A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

Anna Mary Robertson Moses

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

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Anon.

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

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Carl Jung

Only a fool walks backwards into the future.

Terry Goodkind

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.

Wolcott Gibbs

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.

Robert Ingersoll

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat - Oppressed brain?

William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 2 scene 1

Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation.

Lewis S Feue

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

E. B. White

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

Henry David Thoreau

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza

Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

William Shakespeare

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non - Existence of Zeus or Thor - But they have few followers now.

Arthur C. Clarke

Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.

Alford

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

Norman Vincent Peale

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Dr. Jonas Salk

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, April 2, 1957

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Hannah Arendt

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.

Dr. David M. Burns

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.

Faith Whittlesey

Vision looks inward and becomes duty. Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upward and becomes faith.

Stephen S. Wise

I cherish the Franco - German cooperation as one of the most important developments in post - war Europe. But I will not accept is as being so sacrosanct that the rest of us shall simply adapt to what is decided between Paris and Berlin.

Uffe Ellemann - Jensen, President, ELDR 1995 - 2000, Foreign Minister 1982 - 1993, Nordic Embassies in Berlin 23 September 2003

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

Georges Clemenceau

Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still - - That up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.

Charles Kingsley

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

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

Henry David Thoreau

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richte

There are three intolerable things in life - Cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

Orson Welles

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kierkegaard

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others.

Francois Fenelon

Californians invented the concept of life - Style. This alone warrants their doom.

Don DeLillo