Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Buddha

Best Quotes about War

Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

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

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

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

O can't you see, brother -- Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label.

Andrews, C. D.

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

Massie, Allan

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

Renard, Jules

A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

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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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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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Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.

Rorty, Richard

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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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Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scripture declares him twice-blessed.

Talmud, The

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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

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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'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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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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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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

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

Cooke, E. V.

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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Graves, Robert

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

George Orwell

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It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

Ibarruri, Dolores

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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Voltaire

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

Weil, Simone

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It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Manor, Rachel

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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Buddha

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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.