Motivational Quotes

War

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.

Best Quotes about War

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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

Buddha

All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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

Robert E. Lee

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

Will Rogers

10.

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

Cooke, E. V.

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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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War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

Kraus, Karl

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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

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

Kitman, Marvin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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

Johnson, Edward

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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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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

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief... for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.

Twain, Mark

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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I think the mark of a great ruler, is not his ability to make war but to achieve peace.

Monica Fairview

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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice -- is often the means of their regeneration.

Mill, John Stuart

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

W. L. George

30.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Homer

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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

Housman, A. E.

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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

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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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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Junius

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War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable (such as votes for women and the abolition of unemployment) not merely thinkable but practicable. What is equally important, it can re-create communities of men and give a temporary sense to their lives by uniting them against foreigners and outsiders. This is an achievement beyond the power of the private enterprise economy when left to itself.

Hobsbawm, E. J.

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

Sewell, George

43.

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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

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The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.

Lapham, Lewis H.