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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

Manor, Rachel

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

Sewell, George

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

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

W. L. George

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

Cooke, E. V.

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

10.

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

Buddha

11.

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

12.

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

13.

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

Confucius

14.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

15.

For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

16.

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

17.

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.

Confucius

18.

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

Einstein, Albert

19.

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

20.

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

21.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

25.

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

Robert E. Lee

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I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.

Frank, Anne

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

28.

War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

29.

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

32.

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.

33.

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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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.

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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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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Benjamin, Walter

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War -- what a waist of time. It's all about great achievements for the very few but hideous losses for the very many.

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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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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

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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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

43.

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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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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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

46.

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

Voltaire

47.

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

Sun Tzu

48.

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

49.

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

Baudouin I