Sparta War Quotes

#1. It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it.

David Foster Wallace

#2. Feel no fear before the multitude of men, do not run in panic,
but let each man bear his shield straight toward the fore-fighters,
regarding his own life as hateful and holding the dark spirits of death as dear as the radiance of the sun.

Tyrtaeus

#3. If you are a good leader, Who talks little, They will say, When your work is done, And your aim fulfilled, "We did it ourselves." - Lao Tse

Gerald M. Weinberg

#4. Come to me, squeeze my hand, know my loneliness, and give me the love, the strength to prevail on the perilous road before me.

Dang Thuy Tram

#5. Never rely on your little knowledge and understanding. There are always some things that you don't know.

Maliheh Sadat Razavi

#6. If you open your heart and become like a child, you will always be blissful, always content.

Dharma Mittra

#7. I think television is one of the last real bastions of the white beauty standard, but still in many industries the workers can be replaced by someone who's willing to play the game or who looks like the person in charge. And this is a problem for all women, not just women of color.

Jami Floyd

#8. Obama sees America as another country on the UN role call. Somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe.

John Bolton

#9. [Michelle Malkin] has been supporting a party which includes most of the idiots in this country who would judge her entirely and exclusively on her [Filipino] appearance.

Keith Olbermann

#10. The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.

Thucydides

#11. Every society has its own problems," Morrie said, lifting his eyebrows, the closest he could come to a shrug. "The way to do it, I think, isn't to run away. You have to work at creating your own culture.

Mitch Albom

#12. Men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things.

Will Durant

#13. If we were bees, ants, or Lacedaemonian| warriors, to whom personal fear does not exist and cowardice is the most shameful thing in the world, warring would go on forever. But luckily we are only men - and cowards.

Erwin Schrodinger

#14. For the Spartans, it wasn't walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta was a city of the head and the heart. And it existed in its purest form in the disciplined march of a hoplite phalanx on their way to war!

Bettany Hughes

#15. What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.

Thucydides

#16. When the Soul that is sprung from God's Word and Will is entered into its own desire to will of itself, it will run in mere uncertainty till it return to its Original again.

Jakob Bohme

#17. You must all pay attention to your health first.

Swami Vivekananda