Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

War is the father of all things. But who is the mother?

Kocher, Gerhard

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

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

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

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

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once'The Unnecessary War'.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).

Mamet, David

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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You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

Will Rogers

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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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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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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

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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

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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Georges Clemenceau

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

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Carl Sandburg

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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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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Voltaire

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Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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What we believe is more important than our material existence, therefore warfare is a legitimate extension of values.

Johnson, Edward

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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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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

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War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

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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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War -- what a waist of time. It's all about great achievements for the very few but hideous losses for the very many.

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

Robert E. Lee

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

Ibarruri, Dolores

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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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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Ulysses S. Grant

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David