Motivational Quotes

War

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about War

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

Blok, Alexander

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

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

Eliot, T. S.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

Reagan, Ronald

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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

Neither enemy faces, nor the mothers that love them, come to mind when one is thinking of nothing but endeavouring to survive. Philosophising about war is useless under fire.

Linda Berdoll

10.

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

11.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

13.

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

14.

Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking themselves to what extent they are cowards. But the tests they set themselves -- there is a dead body, can you bear to look at it? -- are nothing in comparison with the tests that are sprung on them. It is not the obvious tests that matter (do you go to pieces in a mortar attack?) but the unexpected ones (here is a man on the run, seeking your help -- can you face him honestly?).

Fenton, James

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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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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

Washington, Booker T.

17.

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

Kitman, Marvin

20.

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

Georges Clemenceau

21.

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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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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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

24.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

25.

A just war is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

Cockburn, Alexander

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It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

27.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

28.

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

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

32.

The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

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

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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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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.

36.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Buddha

38.

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

Penn, William

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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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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Sewell, George

46.

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

47.

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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

Manor, Rachel