Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about War

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

Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Sun Tzu

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

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

War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Confucius

It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Kitman, Marvin

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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.

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

Penn, William

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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it's fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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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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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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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

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

Crook, Jayne

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Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Twain, Mark

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A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More people are realizing that bonuses look like raises, but really aren't.

Bauman, Al

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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

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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

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

Omar Bradley

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Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

Reagan, Ronald

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Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!

Blok, Alexander

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

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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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Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

Runcie, Robert

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

Koestler, Arthur

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If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.

Albrecht, Karl

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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

George Orwell

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The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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What we believe is more important than our material existence, therefore warfare is a legitimate extension of values.

Johnson, Edward

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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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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Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

Epictetus

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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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It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it.

Robert E. Lee

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Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies.