War Quotes

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self - Sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

John Foster Dulles

Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

Miguel de Cervantes

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

Queen Elizabeth

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

E. M. Forster, as a small child

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.

Wolcott Gibbs

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, The Confucian Analects

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

Bernard Mannes Baruch

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green - Eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

Auguste Rodin

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Joe Moore

Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.

Robert Anson Heinlein

Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

Hermocrates of Syracuse

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non - Conformist.

Ayn Rand

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

Saint Francis Xavie

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well - Housed, well - warmed, and well - Fed.

Herman Melville

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

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

Barbara de Angelis

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

George Bernard Shaw

I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

Muriel Rukeyse

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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

To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Albert Einstein

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

John Andrew Holmes

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

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

There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann von Goethe

Virtue is indeed its own reward.

Claudianus

Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.

Endicott Peabody

Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.

Charles Ives

Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

Cicero

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)

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

James A. Garfield

Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?

William Punshon