Motivational Quotes

War

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about War

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Koestler, Arthur

All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.

Cooke, E. V.

10.

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

11.

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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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

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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.

Proverb, Irish

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

Buddha

19.

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

Georges Clemenceau

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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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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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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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What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

Franklin, Benjamin

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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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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

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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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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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Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

Huxley, Aldous

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Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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

Kitman, Marvin

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

Shakespeare, William

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War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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.

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

Rockefeller, John D.