Motivational Quotes

War

Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

- Heller, Joseph

Best Quotes about War

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

Meehan, Francis

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

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

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

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Einstein, Albert

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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice -- is often the means of their regeneration.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies.

Towbridge, J. T.

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Hazlitt, William

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It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

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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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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

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Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated -- there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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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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My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.

Benedict, Ruth

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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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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Graves, Robert

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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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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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Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war --for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

Lennon, John

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Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

36.

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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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

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

Ibarruri, Dolores

43.

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

Twain, Mark

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The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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

Voltaire

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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