Motivational Quotes

War

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about War

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Homer

Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Massie, Allan

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.

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

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.

11.

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

12.

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

George Orwell

13.

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

Meehan, Francis

15.

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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I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.

Russell, Bertrand

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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Hazlitt, William

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

21.

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

W. L. George

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Sun Tzu

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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 greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

28.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

29.

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

Carl Sandburg

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

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

32.

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

Crisp, Quentin

33.

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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What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

35.

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.

Crook, Jayne

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The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good deeds and an inescapable punishment for bad. Meditate upon this truth, and seek always to earn good wages from Destiny.

Fu Wu Ming

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

Johnson, Edward

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War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of politics by other means.

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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

Buddha

44.

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scripture declares him twice-blessed.

Talmud, The

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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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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Woolf, Virginia

48.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Bismarck, Otto Von

49.

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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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

Huxley, Aldous