War Quotes

Antoine de saint - exupery - life has taught us that love does not consist in...
Only a fool walks backwards into the future.
Terry Goodkind
George bernard shaw, man and superman, 1903 - a learned man is an idler who kills time with...
Charles w. chesnutt - those that set in motion the forces of evil...
Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
I know patriotism exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.
George Washington
All governments eventually lean further and further towards aristocracy.
Frank Herbert, Dune
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
Confucius
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.
Home
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
Margaret Fulle
In war, there are no unwounded solders.
Jose Narosky
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Jules de Gaultie
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
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.
Author Unknown
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green - Eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
Woodrow Wilson
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.
William Shakespeare
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Joaquin Setanti
In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.
James Agee
I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.
Greg Proops
Beware the man of one book.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Karl Kraus
The best way to end a war is not to begin it.
Author Unknown
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
Baltasar Gracian
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
John Anthony Ciardi
There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers - By see only a wisp of smoke.
Vincent Van Gogh
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
As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.
Dorothy Sayers
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.
Earl Nightingale
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.
Plato
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.
Alford
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
Hal Borland
The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.
Otto Kleppne
The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.
F. Nietzsche, The Wanderer and His Shadow
To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.
Sun Tzu, The Art of Wa
The glow of inspiration warms us it is a holy rapture.
Publius Ovidius NasoOvid
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - Or are they holding you back.
Clement Stone
The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.
Larry Niven