Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Omar Bradley

Best Quotes about War

That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

Coward, Noel

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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

Weil, Simone

Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Homer

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Monica Fairview

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

Voltaire

15.

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.

Confucius

16.

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

Twain, Mark

17.

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

Omar Bradley

18.

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.

19.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

20.

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

21.

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

22.

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Graves, Robert

23.

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

George Orwell

24.

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

Koestler, Arthur

25.

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

26.

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

Hazlitt, William

27.

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

28.

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

29.

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

Robert E. Lee

31.

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

Will Rogers

32.

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

33.

Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking themselves to what extent they are cowards. But the tests they set themselves -- there is a dead body, can you bear to look at it? -- are nothing in comparison with the tests that are sprung on them. It is not the obvious tests that matter (do you go to pieces in a mortar attack?) but the unexpected ones (here is a man on the run, seeking your help -- can you face him honestly?).

Fenton, James

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

37.

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

38.

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

Andrews, C. D.

39.

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

40.

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

44.

Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.

Rorty, Richard

45.

God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

46.

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

47.

The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

48.

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

49.

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

50.

Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma