Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about War

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

Voltaire

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

Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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

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

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

Omar Bradley

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

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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

Confucius

10.

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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

Kitman, Marvin

12.

Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!

Blok, Alexander

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Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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War is the great scavenger of thought. It is the sovereign disinfectant, and its red stream of blood is the Condy's Fluid that cleans out the stagnant pools and clotted channels of the intellect. We have awakened from an opium-dream of comfort, of ease, of that miserable poltroonery of the sheltered life. Our wish for indulgence of every sort, our laxity of manners, our wretched sensitiveness to personal inconvenience, these are suddenly lifted before us in their true guise as the specters of national decay; and we have risen from the lethargy of our dilettantism to lay them, before it is too late, by the flashing of the unsheathed sword.

Gosse, Sir Edmund

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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 is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

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I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

27.

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.

28.

Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once'The Unnecessary War'.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Monica Fairview

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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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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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Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

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Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.

Davis, Rebecca Harding

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

Benjamin, Walter

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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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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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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.

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

Sun Tzu

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Penn, William