Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Koestler, Arthur

Best Quotes about War

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

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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.

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

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

War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

Cooke, E. V.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Carl Sandburg

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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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Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.

Einstein, Albert

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Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Agatha Christie

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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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The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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 savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

31.

Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Sewell, George

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Kitman, Marvin

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It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Twain, Mark

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The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.

Arendt, Hannah

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Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man, that is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.

Lawrence, Frieda

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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

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

Confucius

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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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A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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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