veterans-day-quotes

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

William Arthur Ward

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."

Muhammad Ali

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

Albert Einstein

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"

"Everybody can be great because everybody can serve."

"I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."

J. R. R. Tolkien

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country."

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother."

"Grandpa, were you a hero in the war? No, but I served in a company of heroes."

Mike Ranney

"Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it."

Tori Amos

"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."

Albert Einstein

"If you want peace, work for justice."

Pope Paul VI

"Peace begins with a smile."

Mother Teresa

"Remembrance is a form of meeting."

Kahlil Gibran

"Khoob ladi mardani woh to Jhansi wali rani thi. (Bravely did she fight, the Queen of Jhansi.)"

Subhadra Kumari Chauhan

"Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured."

Homer

"Perhaps one day it will be pleasing to remember even these things."

Virgil

"In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons."

Herodotus

"War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves."

Leo Tolstoy

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."

"There are no great men, only great challenges which ordinary men, out of necessity, are forced by circumstances to meet."

William F. Halsey

"I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results."

Florence Nightingale

"Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone."

Edith Cavell

"Yet this will go onward the same though Dynasties pass."

Thomas Hardy