Powerful Warrior Quotes to Ignite Your Inner Strength - page 33

The good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy.
The good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy.
Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.
You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
I heard Professor Cannon lecture last night, going partly on your account. His subject was a physiological substitute for war-which is international sports and I suppose motorcycle races-to encourage the secretion of the adrenal glands!
 James McKeen Cattell
The warrior is Here, Now.
 Dan Millman
The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.
There is one ray of hope. It seems to me that today the responsible leaders of the several peoples have, in the main, the honest will to abolish war.
No place better than Indiana on July 4th. Looking forward to a great weekend.
A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, \
A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, "As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it.
Courage isn't the absence of fear; it's the dealing with it.
 Randall "Tex" Cobb
Unless you know the mountains and the forests, the defiles and impasses, the lay of the marshes and swamps, you cannot maneuver with an armed force. Unless you use local guides, you cannot get the advantages of the land.
Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech.
 Nathaniel Altman
Unlike the talent for war, the ability to make peace has always been rare.
 Lawrence Wright
No one is entirely good or evil; that is what the Warrior thinks when he has a new opponent.
The family that I live for only breathes the air that smells of combat.
The visual impact of a United States battleship springs from its ability to put Soviet ships on the bottom of the sea and to put devastating firepower ashore - nothing else.
 John Lehman
Jack furiously chopped vegetables. "Captain Dependable! Wait, we vetoed that one. The Divine Door Maker? Too much? Hmm...Handsome Hero, but maybe I should move away from alliteration. Something sleek. Our Lord and Master Jack.
 Kiersten White
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
 Adrienne Rich
War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.