Motivational Quotes

War

All men would be cowards if they could.

- Rochester, Earl

Best Quotes about War

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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

W. L. George

War -- what a waist of time. It's all about great achievements for the very few but hideous losses for the very many.

Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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

Jefferson, Thomas

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Twain, Mark

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

Confucius

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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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Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their senses and feelings to become numbed and indifferent, have emerged from their experiences with growth and humanness greater than that achieved through almost any other means.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Sun Tzu

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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice -- is often the means of their regeneration.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Georges Clemenceau

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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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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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I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Kitman, Marvin

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Carl Sandburg

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

George Orwell

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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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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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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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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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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will.

Einstein, Albert

44.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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

Pound, Ezra

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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