War Quotes
You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.Home
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.Edmund Spenser, 1590
If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your back.Eido Tai Shimano Roshi
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. - From Live Without Principle.Henry David Thoreau
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.Goethe
Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness of a road leading towards the unknown.Charles De Gaulle
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.Herbert Clark Hoove
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
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.Ronald Reagan
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.Carl Rowen
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.Denis Diderot
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.Norman Vincent Peale
The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.Saint Augustine
Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.Unknown
This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.Zig Zigla
In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards.Gary Lee Phillips
A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.Caskie Stinnett, Out of the Red (1960)
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.Charlotte Bronte
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.Richard Milhous Nixon
Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.Woody Allen
History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation (p. 208)
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.Vernon Sanders Law
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - - Not people; to focus your energies on answers - - Not excuses.William Arthur Ward
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.Barbara de Angelis
How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.Spanish Prove
Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.Sun - Tzu
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear - Sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.Vaclav Havel
Cowardice asks the question - Is it safe? Vanity asks the question - Is it popular? Expediency asks the question - Is it political? But conscience asks the question - Is it right? There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.Ferdinand Foch
