Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated -- there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Junius

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

Ibarruri, Dolores

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Omar Bradley

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

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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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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It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

Baudouin I

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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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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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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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What we believe is more important than our material existence, therefore warfare is a legitimate extension of values.

Johnson, Edward

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Graves, Robert

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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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If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

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Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

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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 the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on.

Sewell, George

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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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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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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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Wars are carried out by large organizations; Peace is brought one by one.

Manor, Rachel

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A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More people are realizing that bonuses look like raises, but really aren't.

Bauman, Al

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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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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Voltaire

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If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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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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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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 Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).

Mamet, David

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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