Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.

Proverb, Irish

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

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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

Carl Sandburg

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Manor, Rachel

14.

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

15.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Bismarck, Otto Von

16.

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

Sun Tzu

17.

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

Andrews, C. D.

18.

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

Crisp, Quentin

19.

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

Einstein, Albert

20.

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

Crook, Jayne

21.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

Baudouin I

23.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

24.

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

25.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Agatha Christie

26.

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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Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Kennedy, John F.

28.

Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies.

Towbridge, J. T.

32.

If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.

Albrecht, Karl

33.

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

34.

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

35.

What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Buddha

37.

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

Poe, Edgar Allan

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It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

40.

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

41.

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

Robert E. Lee

42.

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

Blok, Alexander

43.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

44.

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

Junius

45.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

46.

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

Mussolini, Benito

47.

Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

Heller, Joseph

48.

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

Heller, Joseph

49.

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

Eliot, T. S.