Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Homer

Best Quotes about War

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

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

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

Georges Clemenceau

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Kraus, Karl

10.

Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

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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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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

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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.

14.

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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

Homer

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War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Westcott, Bishop

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

Einstein, Albert

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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Sewell, George

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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

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Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

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

Robert E. Lee

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

Omar Bradley

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Benjamin, Walter

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I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

43.

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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

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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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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

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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