Motivational Quotes

War

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

- Grant, Phillip C.

Best Quotes about War

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Heller, Joseph

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Bierce, Ambrose

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

So you think you can tell heaven from hell blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail, a smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts hot ashes for trees, hot air for a cool breeze, cold comfort for change? Did you exchange a walk on part in a war for a lead role in a cage?

Waters, R.

10.

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

Robert E. Lee

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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

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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Carl Sandburg

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

Baudouin I

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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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

24.

God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

25.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Churchill, Winston

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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 coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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I feel sure that coups d'?tat would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

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Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Hazlitt, William

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

George Orwell

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Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war --for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

Lennon, John

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The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Koestler, Arthur

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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

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

Confucius

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

Buddha

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There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

Orwell, George

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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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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

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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann