Motivational Quotes

War

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

- Rufus, Quintus Curtius

Best Quotes about War

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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

Hoffman, Abbie

The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.

Rorty, Richard

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

Rockefeller, John D.

10.

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

11.

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

Kraus, Karl

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

Twain, Mark

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I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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

15.

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

Voltaire

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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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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

Massie, Allan

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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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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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My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Crook, Jayne

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

Bierce, Ambrose

25.

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

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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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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.

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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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It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

Ibarruri, Dolores

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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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

Buddha

32.

It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

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Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies.

Towbridge, J. T.

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Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

35.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

43.

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

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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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War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Kraus, Karl

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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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