War Quotes

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. Chance, Pastuer wrote, favors only the prepared mind. The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know - How, but also by the awareness of social needs.

Saturday Review

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Seneca

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.

James A. Garfield

Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.

Charles Ives

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Orson Welles

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

Lewis Thomas

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.

Ursula K. LeGuin

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Frances Rodman

In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.

Aristotle

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

John Maynard Keynes

A coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave just one.

Anonymous

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - - Not people to focus your energies on answers - - Not excuses.

William Arthur Ward

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)

Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.

Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy

My final warning to you is always pay for your own drinks. All the scandals in the world of politics today have their cause in the despicable habit of swallowing free drinks.

Y. Yakigawa

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

Beware of the man to whom you have done a good turn.

Lebanese Prove

There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

Miyamoto Musashi

The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.

Donald E. Knuth

I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your president by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.

Gerald R. Ford

Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.

Chinese Prove

Sweet is war to those who know it not.

Pinda

Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.

Robert G. Ingersoll

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.

Nelson Boswell

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

Robert Lynd

War can only be abolished by war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Mao Tse - Tung

A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all - Powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.

Aldous Huxley

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. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear But around you in awareness.

Ross Hersey

Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life.

M. R. Vincent

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

Demophilus

War will cease when men refuse to fight.

F. Hansen

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.

Ayn Rand

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

Rebecca West