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