Motivational Quotes

War

A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.

- Stanhope, Philip Dormer

Best Quotes about War

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

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

It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

Clemenceau, Georges

I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

W. L. George

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

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

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

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

Housman, A. E.

10.

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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Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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

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War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

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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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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

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Twain, Mark

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Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

23.

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

Omar Bradley

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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Carl Sandburg

25.

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

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

Pound, Ezra

27.

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

Baudouin I

28.

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

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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

30.

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

Proverb, Irish

31.

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

Albrecht, Karl

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

Cooke, E. V.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Kitman, Marvin

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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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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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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.

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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

40.

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Buddha

46.

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Georges Clemenceau

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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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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

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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma