Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about War

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Kitman, Marvin

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

Manor, Rachel

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

Asquith, Margot

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Monica Fairview

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

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Clemenceau, Georges

10.

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

11.

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

Massie, Allan

12.

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

Sun Tzu

13.

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

Poe, Edgar Allan

14.

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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.

16.

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

Pound, Ezra

17.

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

18.

Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

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

20.

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

21.

God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

22.

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

23.

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

24.

It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

25.

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

26.

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

Sewell, George

27.

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

Will Rogers

28.

Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.

Early, Gerald

29.

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

Junius

30.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

31.

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

32.

Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

33.

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

Meehan, Francis

34.

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

35.

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

Confucius

36.

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

Koestler, Arthur

37.

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

38.

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

Homer

39.

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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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.

Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

42.

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

Epictetus

43.

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

44.

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

45.

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Weil, Simone

46.

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

47.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

48.

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

49.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Twain, Mark

50.

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.

Shaw, George Bernard