“Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for it. The function of the mere critic is of very subordinate usefulness. It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stress and the danger.” MenLooksActionFightingPoorDangerHe ManOughtBattleCriticismFunctionStressMereCriticsDeedsSubstitutesIndispensableUsefulnessSubordinatesDoers Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“When earth as if on evil dreams Looks back upon her wars, And the white light of Christ outstreams From the red disc of Mars, His fame, who led the stormy van Of battle, well may cease; But never that which crowns the man Whose victory was peace.” IfsMenWellsLooksMayWarDreamLightEarthEvilChristWhiteHe ManVictoryBattleFameRedCeaseCrownsMarsVansStormyDiscsWhite LightLight Of Christ Book:Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
“The Female Western is the battle between the good and evil methods of getting the men who perform best.” MenEvilHe ManBattleFemaleMethodWesternGood And Evil Author:Warren Farrell
“The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist's feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian's scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled.” MenWarCharacterFactsFeelingsFightingStrongSituationHappenedHe ManBattleLosingRegardConstantNarrativeNovelistsCivil WarProseControlledHistorianVigorStrong FeelingLucidity Author:Walter Millis
“The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.” MenFirstsReasonActionFightingHe ManBattleShapesDrawsStriveVicesLustConquerPreparationJudgement Author:Thomas a Kempis
“Women of vanquished races are usually very prone to wed with the men who have slaughtered their kindred in battle.” MenRaceHe ManBattleKindred Author:Arthur Desmond
“Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.” MenShouldShowsWould BeEmotionHe ManSorrowBattleRaisedSuperiorsFuneralRidiculePuppetsApatheticPuppet Shows Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“A magazine editor recently asked me to sit down on my 40th birthday and write an article on the most important things I had learned in my first 40 years. I told him that the chief thing I had learned was that the copybook maxims are true, but that too many people forget this once they go out into the heat and hustle and bustle of the battle of life and only realize their truth once one foot is beginning to slip into the grave. The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.” PeopleMenWritingYearsFirstsImportantRealizingForgetMillionsFeetHe ManBattleCostConscienceImportant ThingsGravesMagazinesChiefsHeatEditorsArticlesSlipsMaximsHustleBustle40th BirthdayBattle Of LifeHustle And BustleMagazine Editors Author:B. C. Forbes
“Every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he's not, he's a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watching men fight who are just as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.” IfsMenFirstsRealFightingHellHe ManHeroBattleBraveScaredEvery ManLiarsCowardBrave ManReal Heroes Author:George S. Patton
“All the battles and wars I been through, and all the battle scars I got it's been a learning experience. Everything I been through made me the man I am so if it was different I would be different so I would say that I really learned something from every situation.” IfsMenMadeDifferentWarWould BeSituationHe ManBattleScarLearning ExperienceBattle Scars Author:Kurupt
“In the time of battle the hammocs, together with their bedding, are all firmly corded, and fixed in the nettings on the quarter-deck, or whereever the men are too much exposed to the view or fire of the enemy.” MenTogetherViewsEnemyFireToo MuchHe ManBattleFixedExposedQuartersDeckBedding Book:Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780) Source: Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)
“Neither the victories of the Olympic Games nor those achieved in battles make the man happy. The only victories that make him happy are those achieved against himself. Temptations and tests are combats. You have beaten one, two, many times; still fight. If you defeat at last you will be happy your entire life, as if you have always defeated.” IfsMenStillsTwoLastsFightingGamesHe ManVictoryBattleTestsDefeatTemptationCombatDefeatedBeatenOlympic Games Author:Epictetus