Motivational Quotes

War

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about War

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Carl Sandburg

A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Renard, Jules

Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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

Massie, Allan

10.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

Orwell, George

11.

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

12.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

14.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Poe, Edgar Allan

15.

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

Voltaire

16.

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.

17.

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

Graves, Robert

18.

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

Weil, Simone

19.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

20.

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

21.

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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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

23.

Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.

Rorty, Richard

24.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it's fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Wilde, Oscar

25.

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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Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their senses and feelings to become numbed and indifferent, have emerged from their experiences with growth and humanness greater than that achieved through almost any other means.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

Confucius

28.

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

Will Rogers

29.

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

30.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

31.

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

Kitman, Marvin

32.

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

Ibarruri, Dolores

33.

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

34.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

35.

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

Cooke, E. V.

36.

Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

37.

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

38.

I feel sure that coups d'?tat would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

39.

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

Reagan, Ronald

40.

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

41.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Churchill, Winston

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A just war is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

Cockburn, Alexander

43.

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

Junius

45.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Woolf, Virginia

46.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

47.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Mencken, H. L.

48.

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service.

Einstein, Albert

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War is a contagion.