War Quotes

War will cease when men refuse to fight.

F. Hansen

Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.

Mae West

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Rene Descartes

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

Peter Ustinov

Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.

Woodrow Wilson

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.

Titus Livius

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

Georges Clemenceau

All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and there is no cause to value one above the other.

H. P. Lovecraft

And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Isaiah

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

Jane Austen, Emma

There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.

J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series)

In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.

Edwin P. Whipple

The beauty of a statue is in its outward form; of a man in his conduct.

Demophilus

Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

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

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

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

Kim Hubbard

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richte

There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea; by combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware.

Francis A. Carte

This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - - In so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

Thomas Mann

Champions are a rare breed. They trust God while others ask for answers. They step forward while others pray for volunteers. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, the hardships.

Unknown

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

Thomas Brackett Reed

WARNING Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Ellie Katz

We must conquer war, or war will conquer us.

Ely Gulbertson

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.

Sir Winston Churchill

This is obviously an act of war that has been committed on the United States. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

John McCain

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

Norman Vincent Peale

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Eric Hoffe

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

John Maynard Keynes

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill - Judged outlay.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life 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

Beware of over - Great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

Margaret Fulle

I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope.

Sextus Julius Frontinus