Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about War

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

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Sewell, George

The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Collier, Jeremy

War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.

Meehan, Francis

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

Westcott, Bishop

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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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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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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man, that is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.

Lawrence, Frieda

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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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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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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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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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Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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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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I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Manor, Rachel

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A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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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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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 is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Confucius

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You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Voltaire

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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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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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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

Housman, A. E.

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

Weil, Simone

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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.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De