Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

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

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Westcott, Bishop

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Penn, William

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Voltaire

11.

It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

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War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

13.

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

Graves, Robert

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

18.

The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Monica Fairview

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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

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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.

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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Mencken, H. L.

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.

Dietrich, Marlene

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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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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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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

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

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

Hazlitt, William

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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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

Andrews, C. D.

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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

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Wars are carried out by large organizations; Peace is brought one by one.

Manor, Rachel

43.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The triumphs of peace have been in some proximity to war. Whilst the hand was still familiar with the sword-hilt, whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated; the compression and tension of these stern conditions is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times, except by some analogous vigor drawn from occupations as hardy as war.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Shakespeare, William

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Morality is contraband in war.