Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

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

Rockefeller, John D.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Macarthur, Douglas

It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

Baudouin I

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Mencken, H. L.

War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

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

Buddha

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

Homer

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

Kocher, Gerhard

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking themselves to what extent they are cowards. But the tests they set themselves -- there is a dead body, can you bear to look at it? -- are nothing in comparison with the tests that are sprung on them. It is not the obvious tests that matter (do you go to pieces in a mortar attack?) but the unexpected ones (here is a man on the run, seeking your help -- can you face him honestly?).

Fenton, James

12.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

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The cowards never started -- and the weak died along the way.

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

Meehan, Francis

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People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything.

Frida Kahlo

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Kraus, Karl

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

Georges Clemenceau

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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

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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

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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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A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

George Orwell

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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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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Confucius

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War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

Kraus, Karl

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It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable (such as votes for women and the abolition of unemployment) not merely thinkable but practicable. What is equally important, it can re-create communities of men and give a temporary sense to their lives by uniting them against foreigners and outsiders. This is an achievement beyond the power of the private enterprise economy when left to itself.

Hobsbawm, E. J.

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

Sun Tzu

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

Kitman, Marvin

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Andrews, C. D.