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

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

Junius

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Pound, Ezra

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

Jefferson, Thomas

War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view realistically; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent -- war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.

Sontag, Susan

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

Confucius

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Benjamin, Walter

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war --for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

Lennon, John

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

Georges Clemenceau

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Reagan, Ronald

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What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Ulysses S. Grant

28.

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Twain, Mark

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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 triumphs of peace have been in some proximity to war. Whilst the hand was still familiar with the sword-hilt, whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated; the compression and tension of these stern conditions is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times, except by some analogous vigor drawn from occupations as hardy as war.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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.

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

George Orwell

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

41.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Confucius

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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

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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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

W. L. George

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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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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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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