Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

Epictetus

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

W. L. George

A just war is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

Cockburn, Alexander

It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

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

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

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.

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

Sewell, George

11.

War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Hazlitt, William

13.

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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

Carl Sandburg

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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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Cry havoc! and let slip the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial.

Shakespeare, William

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Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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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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I think the mark of a great ruler, is not his ability to make war but to achieve peace.

Monica Fairview

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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 only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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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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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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I feel sure that coups d'?tat would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.

Davis, Rebecca Harding

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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

32.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, Irish

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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

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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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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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Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated -- there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

Will Rogers

43.

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

44.

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

Kitman, Marvin

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Georges Clemenceau

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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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Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.

Meehan, Francis

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

Koestler, Arthur

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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