War Quotes
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.Henry David Thoreau
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
Beware of over - Great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.Margaret Fulle
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.Desiderius Erasmus
Eternity is very long, especially towards the end.Woody Allen, Just Six Numbers, Martin Rees, page 71
The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. - From Live Without Principle.Henry David Thoreau
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.Johann von Goethe
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
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.Carl Jung
One kind word can warm three winter months.Japanese prove
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.Margaret Young
The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.A. S. Neill, Summerhill
April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.T. S. Eliot
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.Jeannette Rankin
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.Dave Barry
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.Whitney M. Young Jr.
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.Gilbert Chesterton
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.George Eliot
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.Henry Ward Beeche
Solutions - The first step toward a cure is to know what the disease is.Latin
When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.Chief Seattle
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.J. B. Priestley
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.Robert G. Ingersoll
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.Woodrow Wilson
In war, truth is the first casualty.Aeschylus
If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your back.Eido Tai Shimano Roshi
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.Albert Einstein
A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebums and smaller adrenal glands.H. L. Mencken
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - There are consequences.Robert G. Ingersoll
Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware.David Armistead
From this day forward until the end of the world... we in it shall be remembered... we band of brothers.William Shakespeare, Henry V.
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
My final merit I refuse you, I refuse putting from me what I really am, Encompass worlds but never try to encompass me, I crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you. Writing and talk do not prove me, I carry the plenum of proof in my face, With the hush of my lips I wholly confound the skeptic.Walt Whitman
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
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
So long as there are men there will be wars.Albert Einstein
