Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

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

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

Confucius

A just war is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

Cockburn, Alexander

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.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Johnson, Edward

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

Will Rogers

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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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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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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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Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once.

Shakespeare, William

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Crook, Jayne

18.

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

Confucius

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

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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

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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 greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

25.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Fenton, James

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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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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

Ibarruri, Dolores

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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

37.

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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Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

Reagan, Ronald

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People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything.

Frida Kahlo

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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Hoffman, Abbie

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

Westcott, Bishop

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

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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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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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I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

49.

All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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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