Motivational Quotes

War

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.

Best Quotes about War

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

Andrews, C. D.

God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Buddha

Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

Weil, Simone

It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

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

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

10.

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

11.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

Washington, Booker T.

12.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Agatha Christie

13.

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

Koestler, Arthur

14.

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

Shakespeare, William

15.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

16.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

17.

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

Confucius

18.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

19.

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

20.

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

21.

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

22.

People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything.

Frida Kahlo

23.

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

Proverb, Irish

24.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

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

Kitman, Marvin

26.

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

27.

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

Ibarruri, Dolores

28.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner.

Twain, Mark

29.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Pound, Ezra

30.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Mencken, H. L.

31.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Poe, Edgar Allan

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Eliot, T. S.

35.

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

36.

War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable (such as votes for women and the abolition of unemployment) not merely thinkable but practicable. What is equally important, it can re-create communities of men and give a temporary sense to their lives by uniting them against foreigners and outsiders. This is an achievement beyond the power of the private enterprise economy when left to itself.

Hobsbawm, E. J.

37.

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

38.

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

Georges Clemenceau

39.

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

40.

All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

41.

A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

Bierce, Ambrose

42.

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.

43.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

Rockefeller, John D.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Voltaire

48.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

49.

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

50.

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