War Quotes

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Leonardo da Vinci

War is the biggest ego trip of all time.

Molly Wiest

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

Norman Vincent Peale

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read.

Johnson

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

Sir James Glove

Give yourself something to work toward - - Constantly.

Mary Kay Ash

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

We make war that we may live in peace.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

Lord William Beveridge

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

Dr. Jonas Salk

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

Helen Kelle

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self - Righteous isolation.

John Dewey

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Margaret of Valois

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Goethe

Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.

Ralph Nader, The Pacific Sun, March 21, 1981

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

Susan Sontag

Whenever you take a step forward you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground.

Indira Ghandi

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

J. B. Priestley

The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself.

John Kenneth Galbraith

What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

Denis Diderot

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Omar Bradley, Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1948

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

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

The longest journey is the journey inward.

Dag Hammarskjold

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)

A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.

Jacques Maritain

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.

Plato

Beware the man of one book.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - Or are they holding you back.

Clement Stone

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

Umberto Eco

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso