Motivational Quotes

War

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about War

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

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

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

Homer

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

Albrecht, Karl

Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

War is the father of all things. But who is the mother?

Kocher, Gerhard

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

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

Collier, Jeremy

10.

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

Benjamin, Walter

11.

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

W. L. George

12.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Confucius

14.

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

Sun Tzu

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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

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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

19.

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

Westcott, Bishop

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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

23.

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

Junius

24.

For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

25.

That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

Coward, Noel

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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

27.

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

Proverb, Irish

28.

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

30.

War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view realistically; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent -- war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.

Sontag, Susan

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You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

Will Rogers

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

Ibarruri, Dolores

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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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

37.

So you think you can tell heaven from hell blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail, a smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts hot ashes for trees, hot air for a cool breeze, cold comfort for change? Did you exchange a walk on part in a war for a lead role in a cage?

Waters, R.

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The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner.

Twain, Mark

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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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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

41.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Kitman, Marvin

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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

George Orwell

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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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What are we hoping to get out of it, what's it all in aid of -- is it really just for the sake of a gloved hand waving at you from a golden coach?

Osborne, John

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It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

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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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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

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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