Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

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

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Kipling, Rudyard

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

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

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

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

Baudouin I

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

11.

Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

Runcie, Robert

12.

Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.

Crook, Jayne

14.

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

Kitman, Marvin

15.

Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.

Early, Gerald

16.

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

17.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

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

Towbridge, J. T.

19.

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

Twain, Mark

20.

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

21.

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

Andrews, C. D.

22.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

23.

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

24.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Kraus, Karl

25.

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

26.

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

27.

Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

28.

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

Homer

29.

God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

30.

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

Cooke, E. V.

31.

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

32.

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

Meehan, Francis

33.

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

Heller, Joseph

34.

Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

Gellhorn, Martha

35.

I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.

Frank, Anne

36.

Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

37.

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

38.

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

Sewell, George

39.

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

Penn, William

40.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Junius

41.

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

Buddha

42.

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

43.

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

Monica Fairview

44.

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.

45.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Pound, Ezra

46.

War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable (such as votes for women and the abolition of unemployment) not merely thinkable but practicable. What is equally important, it can re-create communities of men and give a temporary sense to their lives by uniting them against foreigners and outsiders. This is an achievement beyond the power of the private enterprise economy when left to itself.

Hobsbawm, E. J.

47.

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Weil, Simone

48.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Macarthur, Douglas

49.

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

50.

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