Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Hoffman, Abbie

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

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

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

Junius

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Rockefeller, John D.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it's fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Wilde, Oscar

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.

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The cowards never started -- and the weak died along the way.

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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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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

Weil, Simone

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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Voltaire

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America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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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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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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

Confucius

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

Homer

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

28.

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

Confucius

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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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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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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

Twain, Mark

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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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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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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Sun Tzu

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The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

Twain, Mark

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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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

W. L. George

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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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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