War Quotes
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.Thomas a Kempis
May the road rise to meet you, May the wind be always at your back, May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again may god hold you in the palm of his hand.Unknown
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.Leo Tolstoy
The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.Nelson Boswell
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.Dr. David M. Burns
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.Mary Bertone
Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here...Stan Openshaw - Doomsday
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.Rene Descartes
If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mister Brave Man, I guess I am a coward.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.Ausonius
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.Jefferson Davis
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of others.Niccolo Machiavelli
Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear But around you in awareness.Ross Hersey
A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.Johann von Goethe
To secure peace is to prepare for war.Carl von Clausewitz
Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.Johnson
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.Plato, The Republic
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.Nathaniel Hawthorne
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.Barbara de Angelis
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.Carl Sagan, Contact
When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him.R. A. Lafferty
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
In war there is no substitute for victory.General Douglas MacArthu
A warrior of light knows that he will hear an order in the silence of his heart that will guide him.Paulo Coelho, Manual of the Warrior of Light
Cowards do not count in battle they are there, but not in it.Euripides
Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean
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
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.Rebecca West
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.Goethe
The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...Bell Hooks
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. You lift the relationship thereby to a higher level. The best in the other person begins to flow out toward you as your best flows toward him. In the meeting of the best in each a higher unity of understanding is established.Norman Vincent Peale
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
She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.Adlai Stevenson
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.Brian Tracy
