War Quotes
Son, in war times it is not safe to think unless one travels with the mob.Charles Lindberg Sr. to Charles Lindberg Jr. in 1917
An understanding heart is everything is 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 Gustav Jung
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.Auguste Rodin
To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.George Stanley McGovern
War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.Georges Clemenceau
If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.George W. Bush
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.Kahlil Gibran
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.Solomon Short
Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help lift him up.Ecclesiastes 4910 Bible
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.Demosthenes
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.Colton
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.Henry Ford
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
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question.Author Unknown
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
He grounds the warship he walks on.John Bracken on Captain Barney Kelly, who ran the USS Enterprise into the mud of San Francisco Bay in May 1983
Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.James Thurbe
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.Muriel Spark
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.Theodore Roosevelt
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.G. C. Lichtenberg
Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.Theodore Ledyard Cuyle
Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.Charles W. Chesnutt
To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves... We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here - - with its gift of energy and heightened awareness - - So we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.Matthew Arnold
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving.Ulysses S. Grant
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.Agatha Christie, Autobiography (1977)
Wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.John Knowles
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.Sir Winston Churchill
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
The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self - Respect, dignity, integrity, and self - Esteem.Dr. Laura Schlessinge
A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.Kahlil Gibran
So long as there are men there will be wars.Albert Einstein
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.Stanislaus J. Lec
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.Brian Tracy
