Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about War

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Pound, Ezra

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

Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Robert E. Lee

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

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

Crook, Jayne

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

17.

It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.

Frank, Anne

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From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

Asquith, Margot

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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Ulysses S. Grant

25.

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

Junius

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Cry havoc! and let slip the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial.

Shakespeare, William

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Einstein, Albert

30.

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

Meehan, Francis

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Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their senses and feelings to become numbed and indifferent, have emerged from their experiences with growth and humanness greater than that achieved through almost any other means.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man, that is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.

Lawrence, Frieda

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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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A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Weil, Simone

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

Confucius

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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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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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Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war --for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

Lennon, John

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What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once'The Unnecessary War'.

Sir Winston Churchill

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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Cooke, E. V.