War Quotes

When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Confucius

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.

Eric Nicol

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death.

Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.

John Maynard Keynes

Pray, pray very much but beware of telling God what you want.

French Prove

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals....

Ben Stein

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Aesop, The Dog and the Shadow

Love has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they happen to strike me.

E. B. White

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Hellen Kelle

Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - The wheel, New York, wars and so on - while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - For precisely the same reason.

Douglas Noel Adams

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

Sir James Glove

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.

James Baldwin

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

Did you exchange a walk - On part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?

Pink Floyd, song "Wish You Were Here".

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.

Titus Livius

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.

Vincent Van Gogh

Beware the flatterer: he feeds you with an empty spoon.

Cosino DeGregrio

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness of a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles De Gaulle

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

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

Richard Harris

You go to war with the Army you have. They? re not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

Donald Rumsfeld, http: //www. dod. gov/transcripts/2004/tr20041208 - Secdef1761. html

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Napoleon Hill

If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.

Ausonius

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.

Albert Camus

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - - A terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

George McGovern

A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

Anna Mary Robertson Moses

A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Rebecca West

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it it is the future that makes laws for us today.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A good front is half the battle in love or war.

Kim Hubbard

Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.

Unknown

The absence of war is not peace.

Harry S Truman

In nature there are neither rewards not punishments - - There are consequences.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

There are now two great nations in the world, which starting from different points, seem to be advancing toward the same goal: the Russians and the Anglo - Americans... Each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America 1835

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Jean - Jacques Rousseau

She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me Oh then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.

Hartley Coleridge