Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

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

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

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

W. L. George

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

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

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

Crook, Jayne

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

11.

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

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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I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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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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War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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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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You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

Will Rogers

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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

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

Ibarruri, Dolores

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

Homer

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War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Churchill, Winston

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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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

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

28.

To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

Confucius

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

Bierce, Ambrose

30.

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

Pound, Ezra

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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

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A just war is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

Cockburn, Alexander

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.

Westcott, Bishop

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There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

Orwell, George

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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Eliot, T. S.

42.

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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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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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

45.

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

Massie, Allan

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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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Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.