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

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

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Georges Clemenceau

All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

Penn, William

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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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

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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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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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Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

15.

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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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

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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

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

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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Graves, Robert

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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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Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

War -- what a waist of time. It's all about great achievements for the very few but hideous losses for the very many.

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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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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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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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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

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it's fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Crook, Jayne

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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Buddha

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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

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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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The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

40.

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

Omar Bradley

41.

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

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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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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

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