Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about War

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

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Sewell, George

The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

Baudelaire, Charles

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

Mussolini, Benito

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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

Robert E. Lee

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Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

28.

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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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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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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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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 a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.

Proverb, Irish

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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

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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Sun Tzu

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I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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

Carl Sandburg

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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

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A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.

Dietrich, Marlene

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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma