Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

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

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Hoffman, Abbie

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service.

Einstein, Albert

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

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

Reagan, Ronald

Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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

Kitman, Marvin

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

10.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

11.

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

Clemenceau, Georges

12.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

14.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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

Voltaire

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

Dahlberg, Edward

18.

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

Baudouin I

20.

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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Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.

Westcott, Bishop

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

23.

Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

Kollwitz, KaThe

24.

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

Carl Sandburg

25.

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

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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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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

28.

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

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

Proverb, Irish

30.

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

31.

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

Heller, Joseph

32.

The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

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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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

35.

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Buddha

41.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

43.

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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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

45.

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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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Koestler, Arthur

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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

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