Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Hoffman, Abbie

Best Quotes about War

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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

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

Einstein, Albert

O can't you see, brother -- Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label.

Andrews, C. D.

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

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

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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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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When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

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How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Carl Sandburg

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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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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

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The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Omar Bradley

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Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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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.

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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.

Davis, Rebecca Harding

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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

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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

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

Voltaire

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What are we hoping to get out of it, what's it all in aid of -- is it really just for the sake of a gloved hand waving at you from a golden coach?

Osborne, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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

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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters -- not to talk in armies and nations and numbers -- but to track it home.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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

Kitman, Marvin

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

Crook, Jayne

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

Twain, Mark