Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Pound, Ezra

Best Quotes about War

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

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

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Hemingway, Ernest

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

Reagan, Ronald

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

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

Robert E. Lee

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 problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Kitman, Marvin

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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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 like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Homer

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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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

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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Cry havoc! and let slip the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial.

Shakespeare, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Twain, Mark

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

32.

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

Sun Tzu

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Sewell, George

41.

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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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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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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I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what folly to kill one another for interests often imaginary, and always for the pleasure of persons who do not think themselves even obliged to those who sacrifice themselves for them!

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

Asquith, Margot

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There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Confucius

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What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

Franklin, Benjamin

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How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von