Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

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

Proverb, Irish

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

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.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Westcott, Bishop

Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

10.

Neither enemy faces, nor the mothers that love them, come to mind when one is thinking of nothing but endeavouring to survive. Philosophising about war is useless under fire.

Linda Berdoll

11.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

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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War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

19.

Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.

Cooke, E. V.

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The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.

Arendt, Hannah

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A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

25.

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

Homer

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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

28.

God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service.

Einstein, Albert

30.

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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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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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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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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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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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

Macarthur, Douglas

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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

Huxley, Aldous

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Wars are carried out by large organizations; Peace is brought one by one.

Manor, Rachel

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Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.

Meehan, Francis

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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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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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

Voltaire

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O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief... for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.

Twain, Mark

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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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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will.

Einstein, Albert

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No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.