Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Johnson, Edward

Best Quotes about War

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

O can't you see, brother -- Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label.

Andrews, C. D.

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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.

Kitman, Marvin

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

Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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

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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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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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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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War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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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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Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

Sun Tzu

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

Shakespeare, William

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

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Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scripture declares him twice-blessed.

Talmud, The

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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

Confucius

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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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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.

Rorty, Richard

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Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their senses and feelings to become numbed and indifferent, have emerged from their experiences with growth and humanness greater than that achieved through almost any other means.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

Mussolini, Benito

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If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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War -- what a waist of time. It's all about great achievements for the very few but hideous losses for the very many.

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

Sun Tzu

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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