Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Blok, Alexander

Best Quotes about War

War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Omar Bradley

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

Einstein, Albert

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it.

Robert E. Lee

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

Pound, Ezra

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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

Meehan, Francis

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For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

Renard, Jules

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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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America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Buddha

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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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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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War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

Runcie, Robert

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I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good deeds and an inescapable punishment for bad. Meditate upon this truth, and seek always to earn good wages from Destiny.

Fu Wu Ming

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Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their senses and feelings to become numbed and indifferent, have emerged from their experiences with growth and humanness greater than that achieved through almost any other means.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hazlitt, William

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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will.

Einstein, Albert

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

Confucius

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A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Confucius

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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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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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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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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 both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.

Bagehot, Walter

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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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.

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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