War Quotes

Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Native american prove - a brave man dies but once, a coward many times....
The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception.
Baron Manfred von Richthofen ("Red Baron")
Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward for there you have been, there you long to return.
Leonardo DaVinci
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.
John Dewey
Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
Margaret Fulle
Eda leshan - when we truly care for ourselves, it becomes...
James baldwin - love does not begin and end the way we seem to...
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self - Consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.
John W. N. Sullivan
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Motivation is an external, temporary high that PUSHES you forward. Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which PULLS you forward.
Thomas Leonard
Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.
Johnson
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
For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
William Congreve, The Mourning Bride
A ragged colt may prove a good horse. And so may an untoward slovenly boy prove a decent and useful man.
James Kelly
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Hellen Kelle
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul Richte
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Juvenal, Satires
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.
Silius Italicus
Dick, frankly you do not have the war plan... which makes me quite happy.
Donald Rumsfeld, 1st briefing after "shock and awe" started
Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
William Shakespeare
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Caine
Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill - Judged outlay.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Some say it will bring war to the heavens, but its purpose is to deter war, in the heavens and on earth.
Ronald Reagan
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
John Dryden
Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.
A. G. Buckham
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
Aristotle, Nicomachen Ethics (4th c. BC)
Beware the man of one book.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
Benjamin Franklin
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first then seek to win.
Sun Tzu
Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology.
Dame Rebecca West
Beware of those who laugh at nothing or everything.
Arnold Glasgow
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
Seneca
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
Rita Rudne
Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert Camus
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard
We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
William Gladstone
You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.
Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now.
William of Baskerville, The Name of the Rose