Motivational Quotes

War

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

- Ibarruri, Dolores

Best Quotes about War

The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.

Davis, Rebecca Harding

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

Penn, William

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

Westcott, Bishop

Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.

Benedict, Ruth

War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

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

Voltaire

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Twain, Mark

13.

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

14.

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

Heller, Joseph

15.

Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking themselves to what extent they are cowards. But the tests they set themselves -- there is a dead body, can you bear to look at it? -- are nothing in comparison with the tests that are sprung on them. It is not the obvious tests that matter (do you go to pieces in a mortar attack?) but the unexpected ones (here is a man on the run, seeking your help -- can you face him honestly?).

Fenton, James

16.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

17.

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

Hazlitt, William

18.

All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

19.

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

20.

The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.

Crook, Jayne

21.

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

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

30.

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

Massie, Allan

31.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

32.

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

Koestler, Arthur

33.

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.

34.

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

Confucius

35.

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

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

37.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

38.

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

Proverb, Irish

39.

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

Omar Bradley

40.

War -- what a waist of time. It's all about great achievements for the very few but hideous losses for the very many.

41.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

42.

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

Cooke, E. V.

43.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Hoffman, Abbie

44.

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

45.

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

46.

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

47.

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Junius