Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about War

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Voltaire

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

Confucius

It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

Baudouin I

If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.

Albrecht, Karl

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

It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.

Einstein, Albert

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Twain, Mark

10.

Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once.

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

George Orwell

12.

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

Georges Clemenceau

13.

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

Robert E. Lee

14.

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

Carl Sandburg

15.

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

Macarthur, Douglas

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

23.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

24.

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

Heller, Joseph

25.

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

Westcott, Bishop

26.

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

27.

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

28.

The triumphs of peace have been in some proximity to war. Whilst the hand was still familiar with the sword-hilt, whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated; the compression and tension of these stern conditions is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times, except by some analogous vigor drawn from occupations as hardy as war.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

30.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

31.

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

32.

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

Ibarruri, Dolores

33.

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

34.

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

35.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

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

Monica Fairview

37.

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

Penn, William

38.

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

39.

The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.

Lapham, Lewis H.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Twain, Mark

44.

All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

45.

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

Poe, Edgar Allan

46.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

47.

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

48.

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

49.

God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

50.

War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.