Motivational Quotes

War

There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.

- Tocqueville, Alexis De

Best Quotes about War

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

Homer

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Ulysses S. Grant

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

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

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

Confucius

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

Crook, Jayne

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

Confucius

Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

Heller, Joseph

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

10.

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Cooke, E. V.

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People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything.

Frida Kahlo

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

Johnson, Edward

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

Shakespeare, William

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

19.

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

Carl Sandburg

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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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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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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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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

Heller, Joseph

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Twain, Mark

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

Manor, Rachel

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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

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If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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

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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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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Sun Tzu

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Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

Mandino, Og

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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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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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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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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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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

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Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

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

Massie, Allan