Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

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

I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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

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

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

Renard, Jules

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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 cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

Twain, Mark

16.

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

17.

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

Clemenceau, Georges

18.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

Penn, William

19.

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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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

21.

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

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

Johnson, Edward

23.

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

Carl Sandburg

24.

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

25.

War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

26.

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

Monica Fairview

27.

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

Baudouin I

28.

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

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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

31.

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

32.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

George Orwell

33.

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

Sewell, George

34.

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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Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will.

Einstein, Albert

36.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

37.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

38.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Kraus, Karl

39.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

40.

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

Robert E. Lee

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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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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.

43.

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

Kitman, Marvin

44.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

45.

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

Homer

46.

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

Weil, Simone

48.

A just war is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

Cockburn, Alexander

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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

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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.