Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Westcott, Bishop

Best Quotes about War

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated -- there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

10.

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

Confucius

11.

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

12.

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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The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

Renard, Jules

14.

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

Einstein, Albert

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

19.

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

Koestler, Arthur

20.

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

Kraus, Karl

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

Georges Clemenceau

22.

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

Manor, Rachel

23.

Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

24.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

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

W. L. George

26.

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

27.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

28.

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

29.

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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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

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.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

33.

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

Heller, Joseph

34.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Junius

35.

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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Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

Massie, Allan

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

Voltaire

38.

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

Eliot, T. S.

39.

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters -- not to talk in armies and nations and numbers -- but to track it home.

Lawrence, D. H.

40.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

41.

War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

42.

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

Carl Sandburg

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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

44.

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

45.

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Hoffer, Eric

46.

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

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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

48.

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

Twain, Mark

49.

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

Twain, Mark