War Quotes

The cowards never start and the weak die along the way.

Kit Carson

The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.

Herbert Butterfield

Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.

Bruce Lee

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

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

Ernest Dimnet

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

Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Joseph Conrad

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Jim Rohn

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self - Respect, dignity, integrity, and self - Esteem.

Dr. Laura Schlessinge

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

Aldous Huxley

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.

Eric Hoffe

The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. - From Live Without Principle.

Henry David Thoreau

Californians invented the concept of life - Style. This alone warrants their doom.

Don DeLillo

The beauty of a statue is in its outward form of a man in his conduct.

Demophilus

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.

William Shakespeare

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

Silius Italicus

He is a teenager, after all - A strange agent with holes in his jeans, studs in his ear, a tail down his neck, a cap on his head backward.

Ellen Karsh

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Prove

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

Cardinal Richelieu

To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery - Into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.

E. H. Chapin

Experience is a hard teacher becuase she gives the tests first, the lessons afterwards.

Vernon Suanders Law, Chicken Soup for the Teenage soul: Tough Stuff

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

Georges Clemenceau

Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.

Herman Melville, Moby Dick

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

War can only be abolished by war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Mao Tse - Tung

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebums and smaller adrenal glands.

H. L. Mencken

Just think - - IBM and DEC in the same room - - And we did it. Makes you feel warm inside.

Ken Thompson

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

Personally I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

Richard Dawkings:, "The Selfish Gene".

Cowardly dogs bark loudest.

John Webster, The White Devil (1612)

Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.

Robert Ardrey

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

George Sand

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness of a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles De Gaulle

Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.

Homer, The Iliad

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