Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Poe, Edgar Allan

Best Quotes about War

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

Carl Sandburg

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

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

Shakespeare, William

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

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

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

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

10.

There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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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

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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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From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

Asquith, Margot

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

Junius

20.

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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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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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

23.

A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

24.

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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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 problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

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I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

W. L. George

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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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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 is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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What we believe is more important than our material existence, therefore warfare is a legitimate extension of values.

Johnson, Edward

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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

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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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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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War is not nice.

Barbara Bush