Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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

Poe, Edgar Allan

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

Orwell, George

Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

10.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

11.

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

Homer

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

13.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Junius

14.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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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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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 both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.

Bagehot, Walter

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Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

Runcie, Robert

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

Confucius

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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Graves, Robert

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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

Voltaire

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I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Confucius

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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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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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

Kocher, Gerhard

30.

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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 cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

Twain, Mark

34.

The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.

Crook, Jayne

35.

How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Cooke, E. V.

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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

39.

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

40.

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

41.

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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The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

Renard, Jules

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

Omar Bradley

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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 coward threatens when he is safe.