W Quotes
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“Warriors do not rest. They move beyond not to fight but to win and create a better tomorrow for those who suffer in silence.”
“Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls, but by overtaking the walls. Warriors jump over walls; they don't demolish them.”
Source: Tales of Power
“Warriors don't NOT feel the Fear... They DO feel the Fear and they move forward anyway.”
Source: Dancing with the Devil: Breaking chains of childhood sexual abuse
“Warriors don't worry, we win!”
Source: Color Me Moor Royal
“Warriors fear surrender. They are proud and defiant. They will fight to the death for what they believe in. They will struggle to conquer. Love is not about conquest. The truth is a man can only find true love when he surrenders to it. When he opens his heart to the partner of his soul and says: 'here it is! the very essence of me! It is yours to nurture or destroy.”
“Warriors have never won wars,
I doubt if wars could actually be won,
Ignite your compassion sun!
Wars neutralized...
With compassion get #Mickeymized!!!”
“Warriors, in the ancient world, put their souls away for safe keeping during times of danger. I'd put mine away and didn't want strangers to search for it. I might lose it. I'd watched those who'd thrown their souls in front of strangers and their bemusement when it was handed back to them, marked and scratched. Sometimes they didn't even get it back. Well, they'd been careless. Some of them wept, of course. But it was too late. It's murderously difficult to get your soul back, in any condition, once you've let it slip away from you. There's no search party willing to go out in all weathers to find your lost soul.”
Source: The Truth About Love
“Warriors make wars, but it is also true that, in what has so far been an endless reproductive cycle, war makes warriors.”
Source: Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War
“WARRIORS MUST LISTEN TO THEIR HEART. IN ORDER TO DO SO YOU MUST FOLLOW YOUR FEELINGS – BUT THIS IS DIFFICULT TO DO IN THE CONTEXT OF YOUR VIEW OF THE WORLD. ERASING PERSONAL HISTORY IS A POWERFUL MEANS OF ELIMINATING THE RESTRAINTS OF YOUR VIEW OF THE WORLD.”
Source: Cry of the Eagle: The Toltec Teachings Volume 2
“Warriors of light are not perfect.Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn.”
“Warriors of light frequently ask themselves what they are doing here. Very often they believe their lives have no meaning. That is why they are warriors of light. Because they make mistakes. Because they ask questions. Because they continue to look for a meaning. And, in the end, they will find it.”
“Warriors respect each other. They give dignity to each other either in a win or in a defeat.”
“Warriors respect each other. They give dignity to each other either in a win or in a defeat. I have always given respect to my opponents in cricket and in life, and got back respect from them in cricket and in life.”
“Warriors say: I dare not be like the host, but would rather be like the guest. I dare not advance an inch, but would rather retreat a foot.”
“Warriors should suffer their pain silently.”
Source: Warriors 6-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Enter the Clans: Books 1-6 Plus Enter the Clans
“Warriors suffer for their dreams. Cowards pay for their fears.”
“Warriors use their intent and will to shape their lives. All of their actions are conscious, intentional, and complete.”
Source: Wiccan Warrior: Walking a Spiritual Path in a Sometimes Hostile World
“Warriors! and where are warriors found, If not on martial Britain's ground? And who, when waked with note of fire, Love more than they the British lyre?”
Source: Poetical works
“Warriorship does not refer to making war on others. Aggression is the source of our problems, not the solution. Warriorship is the tradition of human bravery, or the tradition of fearlessness.”
Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings
“Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of armor. You have renounced growing a thick, hard skin. You are willing to expose naked flesh, bone and marrow to the world.”
Source: Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery
“Wars against nations for the necessity of lifes crumbs, oh how pitiful, falling for this pit full of lies, now a destiny of failures is inevitable. It's incredible, this deceit is immeasurable, God please enable me to be eligible from this trickery by perfecting my credibility.It's a building of my minds pyramids as if I belong to the secret society of masonry.”
Source: The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey
“Wars against the barbarians, with all their attendant trials and tribulations he was prepared to face himself, but the entire administration of affairs, the choice of civil magistrates, the accounts of the imperial revenues and expenditure he left to his mother. At this point the reader may well censure him for transferring the government of the Empire to the gynaeconitis, but had he known this woman’s spirit, her surpassing virtue, intelligence and energy, his reproaches would soon have turned to admiration. For my grandmother had an exceptional grasp of public affairs, with a genius for organization and government; she was capable, in fact, of managing not only the Roman Empire, but every other empire under the sun as well.”
Source: The Alexiad
“Wars almost never end the way starters had in mind.”
“Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.”
Source: The Story of My Life
“Wars always evolve over time, don't they? Iraq/Afghanistan is different than Vietnam, and Vietnam was different than Korea, and Korea was different than World War One, and so on. Some things remain the same, of course - one side fighting another over ideology or a patch of ground - but there are some aspects of combat life which differ radically than their predecessors.”
“Wars and conflicts begin in the mind, then they are expressed in words and then executed through physical action, so personal transformation is intricately connected with the social and political transformation.”
“Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run.”
“Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.”
“Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.”
“Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.”
“Wars and riots and mutinies, famine, disaster and the crash of dynasties - the process of birth stopped for none of these things.”
Source: Shadow of the Moon
“Wars are all fought by men who either believe they are right or who have no other choice. How they fight defines who they are when the blood stops flowing.”
Source: The Heretic
“Wars are always madness: all is lost in war, all is to be gained in peace.”
“Wars are bad for trade.”
Source: The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones
“Wars are begun by frightened men.”
Source: Red Rabbit
“Wars are begun by frightened men. They fear war, but more than that, they fear what will happen if they don't start one or take equivalent action, I suppose.”
Source: Red Rabbit
“Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.”
“Wars are caused by undefended wealth.”
“Wars are crazy and ill founded.
Man has forgotten that we are a guest on this home of ours.
He steals! He lies! He kills!
For what?
A twenty second call to fame to inflate his ego and pockets.
Why doesn't the rest of the world stand up for a change instead of coverting their own reflection?
We are a world of slaves who are too afraid to call their masters out.
Mums, dads, grandparents, children need to stand up and fight, not with guns but with determination to start the world in a new direction,”
“Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars." (Interview with Don Swaim of CBS Radio-1986)”
“Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars.”
“Wars are fought for oil wells and coaling stations; for control of the Dardanelles or the Suez Canal; for colonial pickings to buy cheap in and conquered markets to sell dear in. War is capitalism with the gloves off.”
“Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons.”
“Wars are fought in the dark. This novel is a reminder that the light humanity is searching for has never been outside of itself.”
“Wars are fought on objectives, not on timetable, and that's why I've been so insistent upon not allowing ourselves to have policy driven by time table, but by objective.”
“wars are fought so that peace can be achieved talk about irony”
“Wars are fought to gain a certain objective. War itself is not the objective; victory is not the objective; you fight to remove the obstruction that comes in the way of your objective. If you let victory become the end in itself then you've gone astray and forgotten what you were originally fighting about.”
“Wars are fought with weapons,
but they are won with intelligence.”
“Wars are generally fought for material things; they're not fought over ideals. After we get into them, we are told we are fighting for ideals. We are fighting for oil and tin and rubber and markets, and as long as we insist on a standard of life that is so high above all the rest of the world, we're going to have to pay for our standard of living with a lot of blood. I think we ought to re-examine the fact that Jesus was a pauper, and we should be committing ourselves to a very humble, simple way of life.”
“Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die.”
Source: The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)