(63 quotes found)
“Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.”
Douglas MacArthur
“People grow old only by deserting their ideals, Macarthur had written. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away.”
“Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.”
“Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.”
“I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.”
“Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind”
“A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.”
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“You are remembered for the rules you break.”
