Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Massie, Allan

Best Quotes about War

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Georges Clemenceau

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

Sun Tzu

For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Carl Sandburg

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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

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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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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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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

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

Junius

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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 savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief... for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.

Twain, Mark

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Hoffman, Abbie

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

Westcott, Bishop

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

Crook, Jayne

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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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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Twain, Mark

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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Shakespeare, William

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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

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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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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

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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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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

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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

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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 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

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I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hazlitt, William

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When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Hoffer, Eric

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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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

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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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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Omar Bradley

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The cowards never started -- and the weak died along the way.

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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Thoreau, Henry David