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

Wars are carried out by large organizations; Peace is brought one by one.

Manor, Rachel

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

Eliot, T. S.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Twain, Mark

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

Asquith, Margot

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war --for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

Lennon, John

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

Dahlberg, Edward

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.

Breton, Andre

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

Reagan, Ronald

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People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything.

Frida Kahlo

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A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.

Kitman, Marvin

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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Bagehot, Walter

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There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Ulysses S. Grant

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The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

Twain, Mark

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I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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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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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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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Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.

Cooke, E. V.

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The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

Homer

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The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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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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A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.

Davis, Rebecca Harding

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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: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

Kraus, Karl

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The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Omar Bradley

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The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Carl Sandburg

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Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

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Neither enemy faces, nor the mothers that love them, come to mind when one is thinking of nothing but endeavouring to survive. Philosophising about war is useless under fire.

Linda Berdoll

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When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Hoffer, Eric

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War is the great scavenger of thought. It is the sovereign disinfectant, and its red stream of blood is the Condy's Fluid that cleans out the stagnant pools and clotted channels of the intellect. We have awakened from an opium-dream of comfort, of ease, of that miserable poltroonery of the sheltered life. Our wish for indulgence of every sort, our laxity of manners, our wretched sensitiveness to personal inconvenience, these are suddenly lifted before us in their true guise as the specters of national decay; and we have risen from the lethargy of our dilettantism to lay them, before it is too late, by the flashing of the unsheathed sword.

Gosse, Sir Edmund

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It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

Ibarruri, Dolores

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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Buddha

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War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of politics by other means.

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

Nightingale, Florence

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War is the father of all things. But who is the mother?

Kocher, Gerhard

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

Massie, Allan

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I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Robert E. Lee

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Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

Kollwitz, KaThe

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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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