Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Dahlberg, Edward

Best Quotes about War

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

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

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

Buddha

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

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

Georges Clemenceau

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

Massie, Allan

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

Ibarruri, Dolores

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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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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.

Kipling, Rudyard

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A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

Sun Tzu

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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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

Shakespeare, William

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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Pound, Ezra

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

Carl Sandburg

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The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).

Mamet, David

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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

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War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Omar Bradley

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

Cooke, E. V.

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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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Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Johnson, Edward

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Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Crook, Jayne

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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

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

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

Albrecht, Karl

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

Proverb, Irish