Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Blok, Alexander

Best Quotes about War

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

Voltaire

Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once.

Shakespeare, William

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once'The Unnecessary War'.

Sir Winston Churchill

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Kraus, Karl

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

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

Junius

A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More people are realizing that bonuses look like raises, but really aren't.

Bauman, Al

10.

Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

Mandino, Og

11.

What we believe is more important than our material existence, therefore warfare is a legitimate extension of values.

Johnson, Edward

12.

That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

Coward, Noel

13.

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.

14.

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Sir Winston Churchill

15.

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

Carl Sandburg

16.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

17.

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

18.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Sun Tzu

19.

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

20.

Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

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

Ibarruri, Dolores

22.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

23.

Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

24.

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

25.

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

26.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

27.

I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

O can't you see, brother -- Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label.

Andrews, C. D.

29.

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

Heller, Joseph

30.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

31.

God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

32.

War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

33.

O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief... for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.

Twain, Mark

34.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

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

36.

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

37.

I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.

Einstein, Albert

38.

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

Meehan, Francis

39.

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

Blok, Alexander

40.

I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.

Russell, Bertrand

41.

So you think you can tell heaven from hell blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail, a smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts hot ashes for trees, hot air for a cool breeze, cold comfort for change? Did you exchange a walk on part in a war for a lead role in a cage?

Waters, R.

42.

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

Confucius

43.

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

44.

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

Cooke, E. V.

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