Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

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

Twain, Mark

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

Voltaire

A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More people are realizing that bonuses look like raises, but really aren't.

Bauman, Al

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

Sun Tzu

Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!

Blok, Alexander

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

God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.

Benedict, Ruth

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

Dahlberg, Edward

10.

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

11.

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Einstein, Albert

13.

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Graves, Robert

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War is the great scavenger of thought. It is the sovereign disinfectant, and its red stream of blood is the Condy's Fluid that cleans out the stagnant pools and clotted channels of the intellect. We have awakened from an opium-dream of comfort, of ease, of that miserable poltroonery of the sheltered life. Our wish for indulgence of every sort, our laxity of manners, our wretched sensitiveness to personal inconvenience, these are suddenly lifted before us in their true guise as the specters of national decay; and we have risen from the lethargy of our dilettantism to lay them, before it is too late, by the flashing of the unsheathed sword.

Gosse, Sir Edmund

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

George Orwell

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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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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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

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

Runcie, Robert

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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

25.

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

Benjamin, Walter

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War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

Nightingale, Florence

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters -- not to talk in armies and nations and numbers -- but to track it home.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Twain, Mark

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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

39.

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

Koestler, Arthur

40.

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Cooke, E. V.

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

45.

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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The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Omar Bradley

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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Hoffer, Eric

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The triumphs of peace have been in some proximity to war. Whilst the hand was still familiar with the sword-hilt, whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated; the compression and tension of these stern conditions is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times, except by some analogous vigor drawn from occupations as hardy as war.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo