Motivational Quotes

War

It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

- Surtees, Robert S.

Best Quotes about War

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Twain, Mark

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

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

Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.

Cooke, E. V.

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.

If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.

Albrecht, Karl

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

10.

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it.

Robert E. Lee

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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

Collier, Jeremy

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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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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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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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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 chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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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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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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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Homer

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

Twain, Mark

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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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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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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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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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The cowards never started -- and the weak died along the way.

40.

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

Crook, Jayne

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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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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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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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Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scripture declares him twice-blessed.

Talmud, The

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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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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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