Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about War

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

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

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

Manor, Rachel

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.

Gandhi, Mahatma

It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.

Proverb, Irish

War is the great scavenger of thought. It is the sovereign disinfectant, and its red stream of blood is the Condy's Fluid that cleans out the stagnant pools and clotted channels of the intellect. We have awakened from an opium-dream of comfort, of ease, of that miserable poltroonery of the sheltered life. Our wish for indulgence of every sort, our laxity of manners, our wretched sensitiveness to personal inconvenience, these are suddenly lifted before us in their true guise as the specters of national decay; and we have risen from the lethargy of our dilettantism to lay them, before it is too late, by the flashing of the unsheathed sword.

Gosse, Sir Edmund

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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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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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If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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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

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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

Confucius

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A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

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

Georges Clemenceau

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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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Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.

Cooke, E. V.

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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

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Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

Mandino, Og

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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

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People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything.

Frida Kahlo

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A just war is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Junius

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Omar Bradley

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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Benjamin, Walter

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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

40.

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

Kitman, Marvin

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

Weil, Simone

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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Woolf, Virginia

44.

It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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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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No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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

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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.

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Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller