War Quotes

Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one - Ideaed individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.

Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.

Marcel Ayme

Trying is the first step towards failure.

Homer Simpson, The Simpsons

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Bernard Mannes Baruch

As long as humanity has been human, it has looked toward the heavens and dreamed that some day, some way, there would be giant federal contracts involved.

Dave Barry

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

G. C. Lichtenberg

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

Barbara de Angelis

Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions.

Russell G. Alexande

Cowardly dogs bark loudest.

John Webster, The White Devil (1612)

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

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, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2

Give yourself something to work toward - - Constantly.

Mary Kay Ash

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

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Pietro Aretino

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

Mary Bertone

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death.

Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Carl Sandburg

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Aeschylus

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

George Eliot

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

Hiram Warren Johnson, (1917)

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

Karl Menninge

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued.

Helen Kelle

The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.

S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire, 1947

WARNING Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Ellie Katz

A warrior of light knows that he will hear an order in the silence of his heart that will guide him.

Paulo Coelho, Manual of the Warrior of Light

In nature there are neither rewards not punishments - - There are consequences.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

In war there is no substitute for victory.

General Douglas MacArthu

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

Ludwig Boerne

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

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Anon.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Aldous Huxley

There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

Miyamoto Musashi

The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.

Milton Friedman

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

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