Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

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

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

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

Cooke, E. V.

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

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

Renard, Jules

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

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

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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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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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

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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

Voltaire

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

Proverb, Irish

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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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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view realistically; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent -- war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.

Sontag, Susan

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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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It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it.

Robert E. Lee

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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Hazlitt, 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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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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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Sun Tzu

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America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Weil, Simone

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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

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A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More people are realizing that bonuses look like raises, but really aren't.

Bauman, Al

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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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I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Twain, Mark

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It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

George Orwell

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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Macarthur, Douglas

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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Andrews, C. D.

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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