Motivational Quotes

War

Faint heart never won fair lady.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about War

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

Renard, Jules

The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Homer

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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

Kitman, Marvin

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

Junius

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

Will Rogers

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

W. L. George

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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.

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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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It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

Clemenceau, Georges

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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scripture declares him twice-blessed.

Talmud, The

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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

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War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

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Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.

Early, Gerald

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

Buddha

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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Hoffman, Abbie

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Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.

Frank, Anne

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War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view realistically; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent -- war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.

Sontag, Susan

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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Confucius

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

Manor, Rachel

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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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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I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what folly to kill one another for interests often imaginary, and always for the pleasure of persons who do not think themselves even obliged to those who sacrifice themselves for them!

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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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

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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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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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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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America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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