Powerful War Quotes That Will Inspire and Motivate You - page 40

Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.
Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.
 Tatum O'Neal
He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.
“During times of persistent hardship is when the warrior learns the most about his fortitude.”
 Bodhi Sanders
When you prepare a list of improvements and you make them small and achievable, you won't just stick to then, you'll increase the chances that you'll keep moving forward.
 Georges St-Pierre
Workable solutions for Earth are urgently needed. Saving seals and tigers, or fighting yet another oil pipeline through a wilderness area, while laudable, is merely shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic.
 Lawrence Anthony
There is no dream, and if there is, there is only one to see you my children struggling for the same and for which I am expected to be finished.
 Ashfaqulla Khan
The essence of fighting is the art of moving at the right time.
The obvious thing for the cavalryman to do is to accept the fighting machine as a partner, and prepare to meet more fully the demands of future warfare.
 George S. Patton
Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might consider it folly to attempt.
 Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
Nothing like having a warrant for your execution to get a girl motivated.
Nothing like having a warrant for your execution to get a girl motivated.
 Maria V. Snyder
You know looking back on it now I used the fight and after the fight as motivation, to make sure I was going to be the best middleweight in the world for a long time.
 Marvin Hagler
“It’s natural to feel fear. All great warriors are afraid. Only the stupid and the delusional are not.”
But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?
I don't know if the '80s were unique, but we certainly got original, groundbreaking stuff at the time with movies like 'Back to the Future' and 'Star Wars' - movies that became classics.
 Ernest Cline
So shall I fight, so shall I tread, In this long war beneath the stars; So shall a glory wreathe my head, So shall I faint and show the scars, Until this case, this clogging mould, Be smithied all to kingly gold.
 John Masefield
Many of us fight for and boast our freedom of what is ultimately the ability to prove ourselves to other people. It is unfortunate that only a few of us are so free in our joy, we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves to anyone.
Having been born into the house of a warrior, one's intentions should be to grasp the long and the short swords and to die.
 Kato Kiyomasa
No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
 Franz Grillparzer
Fifty years ago my Mother stood on this stage accepting this award; She was fortunate enough to have my Dad with her. Fifty years later, I\'m fortunate enough to have my Dad with me. I love you, Dad.
Fifty years ago my Mother stood on this stage accepting this award; She was fortunate enough to have my Dad with her. Fifty years later, I'm fortunate enough to have my Dad with me. I love you, Dad.
 Mariska Hargitay
Love, why have you sought the horde of spearsmen, why the tent Achilles pitched beside the river-ford?
 Hilda Doolittle