Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.

Breton, Andre

When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on.

Sewell, George

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

Monica Fairview

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

Albrecht, Karl

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

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice -- is often the means of their regeneration.

Mill, John Stuart

There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Crook, Jayne

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

Heller, Joseph

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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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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

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The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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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

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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 reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

Renard, Jules

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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

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

Buddha

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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

28.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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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

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Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies.

Towbridge, J. T.

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

Benjamin, Walter

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The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

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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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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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