Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Clemenceau, Georges

Best Quotes about War

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

Crook, Jayne

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

Hazlitt, William

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

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

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

The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Voltaire

10.

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

11.

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

Heller, Joseph

12.

O can't you see, brother -- Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label.

Andrews, C. D.

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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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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

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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 greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Georges Clemenceau

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

Johnson, Edward

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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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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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The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

Renard, Jules

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Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.

Rorty, Richard

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

Clemenceau, Georges

30.

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

31.

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

Confucius

32.

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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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

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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

Sun Tzu

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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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Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, Irish

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When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on.

Sewell, George

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

Twain, Mark

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I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

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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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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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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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

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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

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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Carl Sandburg

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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