Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Collier, Jeremy

Best Quotes about War

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Agatha Christie

War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Heller, Joseph

It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

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

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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

10.

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

Koestler, Arthur

11.

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

13.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

14.

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

15.

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

Johnson, Edward

16.

Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

Kollwitz, KaThe

17.

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

18.

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.

Confucius

19.

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

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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

21.

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

Confucius

22.

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

Georges Clemenceau

23.

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

24.

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

25.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of politics by other means.

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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

Albrecht, Karl

28.

My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

29.

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

30.

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

Massie, Allan

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Will Rogers

35.

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

36.

I think the mark of a great ruler, is not his ability to make war but to achieve peace.

Monica Fairview

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Wars are made to make debt.