Motivational Quotes

War

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about War

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

Runcie, Robert

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

For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Homer

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

Hazlitt, William

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner.

Twain, Mark

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

10.

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

Confucius

11.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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 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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The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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 just war is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

Cockburn, Alexander

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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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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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War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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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

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War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

Mussolini, Benito

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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters -- not to talk in armies and nations and numbers -- but to track it home.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Carl Sandburg

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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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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.

34.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Georges Clemenceau

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Twain, Mark

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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 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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America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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.