Motivational Quotes

War

War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.

- Bagehot, Walter

Best Quotes about War

Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!

Blok, Alexander

Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.

Meehan, Francis

It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it.

Robert E. Lee

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

Epictetus

Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

What are we hoping to get out of it, what's it all in aid of -- is it really just for the sake of a gloved hand waving at you from a golden coach?

Osborne, John

When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on.

Sewell, George

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

Housman, A. E.

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It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

Baudelaire, Charles

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A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Jefferson, Thomas

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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

Eliot, T. S.

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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters -- not to talk in armies and nations and numbers -- but to track it home.

Lawrence, D. H.

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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

Washington, Booker T.

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It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Junius

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If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.

Kipling, Rudyard

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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.

Confucius

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Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

Runcie, Robert

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War -- what a waist of time. It's all about great achievements for the very few but hideous losses for the very many.

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I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good deeds and an inescapable punishment for bad. Meditate upon this truth, and seek always to earn good wages from Destiny.

Fu Wu Ming

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A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Weil, Simone

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He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

Penn, William

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Cry havoc! and let slip the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial.

Shakespeare, William

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You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

Will Rogers

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I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.

Johnson, Samuel

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It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Graves, Robert

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The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.

Crook, Jayne

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated -- there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

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No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.

Dahlberg, Edward

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It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.

Proverb, Irish

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A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will.

Einstein, Albert

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War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable (such as votes for women and the abolition of unemployment) not merely thinkable but practicable. What is equally important, it can re-create communities of men and give a temporary sense to their lives by uniting them against foreigners and outsiders. This is an achievement beyond the power of the private enterprise economy when left to itself.

Hobsbawm, E. J.

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Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

Gellhorn, Martha

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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

Georges Clemenceau

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How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.