Hiroo Onoda Quotes

#1. Men should never give up. I never do. I would hate to lose.

Hiroo Onoda

#2. People cannot live completely by themselves.

Hiroo Onoda

#3. Life is not fair and people are not equal.

Hiroo Onoda

#4. Come and see ... place no head above your own

Gautama Buddha

#5. The plan is not what you think.

Loren Eiseley

#6. Without a huge shock, the sleepy-head, ignorant Japanese will never wake up.

Hiroo Onoda

#7. You can be whatever you want to be, Gen. Some people seem born to a profession. Others are so blessed in character and intelligence that they must choose. The one is miserable until he finds his calling, the other miserable until he has tried them all.

Brian K. Fuller

#8. Human beings filled him with disgust.

W. Somerset Maugham

#9. One must always be civic-minded.

Hiroo Onoda

#10. Some dreams are best not to wake up from.

Hiroo Onoda

#11. Never complain. When I did, my mother said that if I didn't like my life, I could just give up and die. She reminded me that when I was inside her, I told her that I wanted to be born, so she delivered me, breastfed me and changed my diapers. She said that I had to be brave.

Hiroo Onoda

#12. They could be making her sleep in a closet under the stairs!

Meg Cabot