Motivational Quotes

War

War is like love, it always finds a way.

- Brecht, Bertolt

Best Quotes about War

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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

Confucius

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

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

Voltaire

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

Kitman, Marvin

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

Sun Tzu

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Omar Bradley

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

Proverb, Irish

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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

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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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Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

16.

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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War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.

Maistre, Joseph De

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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Sewell, George

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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

25.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner.

Twain, Mark

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Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.

Westcott, Bishop

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

Carl Sandburg

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Cry havoc! and let slip the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial.

Shakespeare, William

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What are we hoping to get out of it, what's it all in aid of -- is it really just for the sake of a gloved hand waving at you from a golden coach?

Osborne, John

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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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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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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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Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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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

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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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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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

Meehan, Francis

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

Hazlitt, William

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