Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Ibarruri, Dolores

Best Quotes about War

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Buddha

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

W. L. George

Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.

Cooke, E. V.

Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!

Blok, Alexander

10.

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

Confucius

11.

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.

12.

When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on.

Sewell, George

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

15.

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

Einstein, Albert

16.

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

Andrews, C. D.

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking themselves to what extent they are cowards. But the tests they set themselves -- there is a dead body, can you bear to look at it? -- are nothing in comparison with the tests that are sprung on them. It is not the obvious tests that matter (do you go to pieces in a mortar attack?) but the unexpected ones (here is a man on the run, seeking your help -- can you face him honestly?).

Fenton, James

22.

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

23.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Hemingway, Ernest

24.

I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.

Frank, Anne

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

29.

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

Georges Clemenceau

30.

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

31.

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

32.

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

33.

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

34.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

35.

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

Mussolini, Benito

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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

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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

38.

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

39.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

Gellhorn, Martha

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

Bierce, Ambrose

42.

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

43.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

44.

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

Crook, Jayne

45.

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

Omar Bradley

46.

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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

48.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

49.

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

50.

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