Inspirational Quotes

A dead eagle he might have buried, but he had chosen rather to light a fire for a phoenix.

~ Edith Pargeter

There is much to love, and that love is what we are left with. When the bombs stop dropping, and the camps fall back to the earth and decay, and we are done killing each other, that is what we must hold. We can never let the world take our memories of love away, and if there are no memories, we must invent love all over again.

~ Louise Murphy

Armed violence and peace cannot coexist. We need to overcome the challenges we face and seek practical solutions. We must replace the culture of war with the culture of peace.

~ Widad Akreyi

It struck me that such analyses had it backward. It’s the American public for whom the Iraq War is often no more real than a video game. Five years into this war, I am not always confident most Americans fully appreciate the caliber of the people fighting for them, the sacrifices they have made, and the sacrifices they continue to make. After the Vietnam War ended, the onus of shame largely fell on the veterans. This time around, if shame is to be had when the Iraq conflict ends - and all indications are there will be plenty of it - the veterans are the last people in America to deserve it. When it comes to apportioning shame my vote goes to the American people who sent them to war in a surge of emotion but quickly lost the will to either win it or end it. The young troops I profiled in Generation Kill, as well as the other men and women in uniform I’ve encountered in combat zones throughout Iraq and Afghanistan, are among the finest people of their generation. We misuse them at our own peril.

~ Evan Wright

Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of force within his soul will stand in defiance against any master. He is that one human in a thousand whose indomitable spirit will not bow. He is the one man in a thousand whose indomitable spirit cannot bow. He is the one man in a thousand who will not walk quietly to Umschlagplatz. Watch out for him, Alfred Funk, we have pushed him to the wall.

~ Leon Uris

What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of farm and city boys and that inspires Americans in every generation to lay down their lives for people they will never meet, for ideals that make life itself worth living.

~ Bob Dole

Without war there are no heroes.What harm would that be?Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Bless God, he went as soldiers,His musket on his breast—Grant God, he charge the bravestOf all the martial blest!Please God, might I behold himIn epauletted white—I should not fear the foe then—I should not fear the fight!

~ Emily Dickinson

The holy war is within.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You must bear losses like a soldier, the voice told me, bravely and without complaint, and just when the day seems lost, grab your shield for another stand, another thrust forward. That is the juncture that separates heroes from the merely strong.

~ Margaret George

The warrior must never get angry in war.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Words are weapons of war.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Peace that follows battle is a futile peace. It is time to count dead and to assess which side stands closer to the win.

~ J.e. Dipalo

That's my secret and my shame. I'm Nona Grey, war is in my veins, and the screams of my enemies are music to me.

~ Mark Lawrence

My mother used to say, Preeto, there is never a right or a wrong side to a problem, but there can be to people. Not everyone here is on the right side, not everyone there is. You need to ask yourself, which side do you want to be on?

~ Sanchit Gupta

As a child, I thought that war and peace were opposites. Yet I lived in peace when Vietnam was in flames and I didn't experience war until Vietnam had laid down its weapons. I believe that war and peace are actually friends, who mock us.

~ Kim Thúy

Seemingly opposing forces can amalgamate.

~ Andy Harglesis

We need to cease allowing the past to define us. We are evolving as a human race, and just because war and aggressive competition has always been a part of our heritage, that doesn’t mean we are forever destined to war and engage in aggressive competition.We are moving forward to a time when the heart will guide us. We once had to fight to survive, and some still do. Yet now it is time to lay down our weapons and open our hearts to the expansive potential of human compassion and creativity.Where our attention goes, energy flows. Do we continue to focus on opposition and give it our energy? Or do we begin to focus our energy on our own authentic freedom to shine and help to illuminate the world? The choice is ours.There are no mistakes – you are exactly where you need to be, and you were born with the precise gifts needed to transform a dying world into a thriving planet.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

The messages coming back flooded the comm buffers with rage and sorrow, threats of vengeance and offers of aid. Those last were the hardest. New colonies still trying to force their way into local ecosystems so exotic that their bodies could hardly recognize them as life at all, isolated, exhausted, sometimes at the edge of their resources. And what they wanted was to send back help. He listened to their voices, saw the distress in their eyes. He couldn't help, but love them a little bit. Under the best conditions, disasters and plagues did that. It wasn't universally true. There would always be hoarders and price gouging, people who closed their doors to refugees and left them freezing and starving. But the impulse to help was there too. To carry a burden together, even if it meant having less for yourself. Humanity had come as far as it had in a haze of war, sickness, violence, and genocide. History was drenched in blood. But it also had cooperation and kindness, generosity, intermarriage. The one didn’t come without the other.

~ James S.a. Corey

Love conquers all. Let Love then smile at our defeat.

~ Virgil

Being peaceful may not be exciting like being at war, but it is the bliss and joy of life that you really enjoy.

~ Debasish Mridha

hit with your fist, not with your finger spread

~ Prasetya Ramadhan

You cannot intimidate people with real bullets, but you can intimidate them with fake gun.

~ Amit Kalantri

If there never was a night or day and memories could fade away, then we'd be nothing left but the dreams we made

~ Selena Gómez

Goals are dreams with deadlines.

~ Diana Scharf

Yes, if it is meant to be, it will be. In the meantime, create your own fate. Plan big and dream bigger.

~ Destiny Booze

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny... It's a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your destiny. It prepares your spirit and you will, because there is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.

~ Paulo Coelho

If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real.

~ Anthony Robbins

Someone who dreams cannot be forced to stop—there are no limitations to dreams, because we do not own dreams, dreams are from God.

~ Christina Westover

Take care of your life force and always keep it streaming. Always be active and creative, and never ever stop dreaming.

~ Suzy Kassem

We're practical and sensible but we're also dreamers. Don't forget that part of you. There's nothing wrong with being sensible, but dreams are what make you fly. And you're destined to touch the sky.

~ S.h. Kolee

There are some people who live in a dream world, and some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

~ Douglas Everett

If you have a dream, FOLLOW IT.

~ Paula H. Deen

Never lose your passion 2 dream.

~ Pablo

That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You’re both in the same room, yet on different sides and really, in different worlds.

~ Cecelia Ahern

Write it as a dream, read it as a goal.

~ Sakurai Sho

My final word: don't follow your dreams . . . chase them. With a stick, or a shovel, or whatever you have handy. Get that [bleep]ing dream!

~ Maureen Johnson

I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall.

~ Neil Gaiman

You have this lifetime to make the best of your dreams. Don't wait a moment longer and start right now.

~ Eve Evangelista