Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Robert E. Lee

Best Quotes about War

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

Twain, Mark

Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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

Twain, Mark

All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

I feel sure that coups d'?tat would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

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

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

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

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

11.

So you think you can tell heaven from hell blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail, a smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts hot ashes for trees, hot air for a cool breeze, cold comfort for change? Did you exchange a walk on part in a war for a lead role in a cage?

Waters, R.

12.

The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).

Mamet, David

13.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

14.

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

Einstein, Albert

15.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

16.

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

Confucius

17.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

Reagan, Ronald

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Sun Tzu

22.

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

Will Rogers

23.

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

24.

Wars are carried out by large organizations; Peace is brought one by one.

Manor, Rachel

25.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

26.

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

27.

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

Kitman, Marvin

28.

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

29.

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

Voltaire

30.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

31.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Junius

32.

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

33.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of politics by other means.

Clausewitz, Karl Von

34.

That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

Coward, Noel

35.

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

36.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

37.

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

Shakespeare, William

38.

The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good deeds and an inescapable punishment for bad. Meditate upon this truth, and seek always to earn good wages from Destiny.

Fu Wu Ming

39.

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

Hazlitt, William

40.

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

41.

The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

42.

I think the mark of a great ruler, is not his ability to make war but to achieve peace.

Monica Fairview

43.

Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

44.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

45.

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

Pound, Ezra

46.

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

47.

It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

Baudouin I

48.

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

Collier, Jeremy

49.

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

50.

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

Crook, Jayne