Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Clemenceau, Georges

Best Quotes about War

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

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

Hoffman, Abbie

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

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

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.

The cowards never started -- and the weak died along the way.

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

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

Sewell, George

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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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War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

13.

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Crook, Jayne

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

Meehan, Francis

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

Manor, Rachel

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Georges Clemenceau

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

Shakespeare, William

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My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.

Benedict, Ruth

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Voltaire

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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 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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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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Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man, that is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.

Lawrence, Frieda

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

Einstein, Albert

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The triumphs of peace have been in some proximity to war. Whilst the hand was still familiar with the sword-hilt, whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated; the compression and tension of these stern conditions is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times, except by some analogous vigor drawn from occupations as hardy as war.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Confucius

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War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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

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

W. L. George