Courage Quotes

"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell."

- William Tecumseh Sherman

"In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons."

- Herodotus

"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars."

- William Westmoreland

"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."

- Thomas Mann

"If we don't end war, war will end us."

- H. G. Wells

"War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man."

- Napoleon Hill

"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."

- Jeannette Rankin

"There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it."

- Havelock Ellis

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."

- George Santayana

"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"An unjust peace is better than a just war."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"I have never advocated war except as a means of peace."

- Ulysses S. Grant

"It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it."

- Robert E. Lee

"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others."

- Niccolo Machiavelli

"I have not yet begun to fight!"

- John Paul Jones

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse."

- John Stuart Mill

"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."

- Jean-Paul Sartre

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."

- George S. Patton

"God created war so that Americans would learn geography."

- Mark Twain

"War is what happens when language fails."

- Margaret Atwood

"The general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations beforehand."

- Sun Tzu

"The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim."

- Sun Tzu

"If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding."

- Sun Tzu

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."

- Sun Tzu

"The experienced soldier, once in motion, is never bewildered; once he has broken camp, he is never at a loss."

- Sun Tzu

"The skillful soldier does not raise a second levy, neither are his supply-wagons loaded more than twice."

- Sun Tzu

"Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose."

- Sun Tzu

"Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of the trigger."

- Sun Tzu

"Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated."

- Sun Tzu

"Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing."

- Sun Tzu