Motivational Quotes

War

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

- Penn, William

Best Quotes about War

War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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.

A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Will Rogers

So you think you can tell heaven from hell blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail, a smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts hot ashes for trees, hot air for a cool breeze, cold comfort for change? Did you exchange a walk on part in a war for a lead role in a cage?

Waters, R.

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

Housman, A. E.

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

Homer

Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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

Reagan, Ronald

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I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

Thoreau, Henry David

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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

15.

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

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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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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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If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.

Albrecht, Karl

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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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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

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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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I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

25.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

Ibarruri, Dolores

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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Twain, Mark

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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.

29.

All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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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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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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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 more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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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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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

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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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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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A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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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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The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service.

Einstein, Albert

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Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

42.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Sun Tzu

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

Georges Clemenceau

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

Confucius

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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Hemingway, Ernest