War Quotes

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 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

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.

Denis Diderot

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

As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Oscar Wilde

All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

George Bernard Shaw

To state a theorem and then to show examples is literally to teach backwards.

E. Kim Nebeuts

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.

Herbert Hoove

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

General Karl Von Clausewitz, Book: "On War".

The fact is that we prepare for war like giants, and for peace like pygmies.

Lester Bowles Pearson

In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.

Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind

War is a continuation of politics by other means.

Carl Von Clausewitz, quoted by Gene Hackman in "Crimson Tide".

Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over - Concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

Halford E. Luccock

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Brian Tracy

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - No alternative.

Golda Mei

Champions are a rare breed. They trust God while others ask for answers. They step forward while others pray for volunteers. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, the hardships.

Unknown

Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

Dee W. Hock, Fast Company

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

Alfred North Whitehead

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.

Greg Proops

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.

St. Francis Xavie

Tonight - To you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. On his Vietnam War policy.

Richard Milhous Nixon

The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Mary Lorraine Buckley

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

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

George Sand

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Mahatma Gandhi

Give yourself something to work toward - - Constantly.

Mary Kay Ash

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

George S. Patton

The journey is the reward.

Taoist Saying

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Aeschylus

As we grow oldthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.

Robert E. Lee

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

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

Nelson Boswell