Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about War

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

Macarthur, Douglas

No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Georges Clemenceau

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

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

Homer

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

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

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Koestler, Arthur

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I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what folly to kill one another for interests often imaginary, and always for the pleasure of persons who do not think themselves even obliged to those who sacrifice themselves for them!

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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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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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 has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

Heller, Joseph

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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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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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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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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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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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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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I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Voltaire

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

Cooke, E. V.

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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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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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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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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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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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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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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 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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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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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Benjamin, Walter

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What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Twain, Mark

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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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I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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Neither enemy faces, nor the mothers that love them, come to mind when one is thinking of nothing but endeavouring to survive. Philosophising about war is useless under fire.

Linda Berdoll

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Eliot, T. S.