War Quotes

Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.

Bonaro Overstreet

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

E. Kim Nebeuts

Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to proscribe, and honestly to award - These are the true aims and duties of criticism.

Simms

War connot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the others advantage.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.

Thomas a Kempis

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.

Patricia Moyes

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.

John Locke

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

F. Nietzsche, The Wanderer and His Shadow

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.

William Ernest Hocking

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upwards and leads to a perfect forgiveness.

Howard W. Hunter, Speech given in October 1994

Pray, pray very much but beware of telling God what you want.

French Prove

We Americans know - Although others appear to forget - The risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

James Russell Lowell

The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse.

Carlos Castaneda

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

Henry David Thoreau

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Ronald Reagan

Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.

James Thurbe

The glow of inspiration warms us it is a holy rapture.

Publius Ovidius NasoOvid

And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Isaiah

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

Cicero

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984

Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.

Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.

Dorothy Thompson

Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die.

Herbert Hoove

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The avoidance of taxes is the only pursuit that carries any reward.

John Maynard Keynes

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

Chuang - Tzu

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

The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.

Saint Augustine

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

Rita Rudne

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster, as a small child

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Leo Tolstoy

I have been like a child walking along the shore line. Quickly discarding one sea shell for another of more outward beauty - - Never to know the pearl within!

Robert Anthony, The Man Who Would Never Be King

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects