Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about War

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Einstein, Albert

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once'The Unnecessary War'.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Crook, Jayne

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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

Twain, Mark

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

Sun Tzu

War is the great scavenger of thought. It is the sovereign disinfectant, and its red stream of blood is the Condy's Fluid that cleans out the stagnant pools and clotted channels of the intellect. We have awakened from an opium-dream of comfort, of ease, of that miserable poltroonery of the sheltered life. Our wish for indulgence of every sort, our laxity of manners, our wretched sensitiveness to personal inconvenience, these are suddenly lifted before us in their true guise as the specters of national decay; and we have risen from the lethargy of our dilettantism to lay them, before it is too late, by the flashing of the unsheathed sword.

Gosse, Sir Edmund

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

10.

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

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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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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

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

George Orwell

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

Macarthur, Douglas

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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Hoffman, Abbie

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The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good deeds and an inescapable punishment for bad. Meditate upon this truth, and seek always to earn good wages from Destiny.

Fu Wu Ming

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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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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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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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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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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.

30.

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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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it's fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

Heller, Joseph

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Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

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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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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.

Proverb, Irish

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Twain, Mark

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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

46.

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Buddha

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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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I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike