Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Sewell, George

Best Quotes about War

All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.

Early, Gerald

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Weil, Simone

10.

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

11.

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

12.

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Hoffer, Eric

13.

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

14.

It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

15.

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Sir Winston Churchill

16.

Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Will Rogers

21.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

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

23.

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

Massie, Allan

24.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

25.

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

Manor, Rachel

26.

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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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

28.

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

Poe, Edgar Allan

29.

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

Twain, Mark

30.

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

31.

The cowards never started -- and the weak died along the way.

32.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

33.

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

Towbridge, J. T.

34.

Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.

Rorty, Richard

35.

The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.

Arendt, Hannah

36.

Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.

Meehan, Francis

37.

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

38.

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

39.

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

Omar Bradley

40.

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

Graves, Robert

41.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

Asquith, Margot

42.

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

43.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

44.

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

45.

What we believe is more important than our material existence, therefore warfare is a legitimate extension of values.

Johnson, Edward

46.

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

Confucius

47.

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

Benjamin, Walter

48.

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

49.

If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.

Albrecht, Karl

50.

Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.