Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about War

A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.

Dietrich, Marlene

I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.

Frank, Anne

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Weil, Simone

War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.

Maistre, Joseph De

Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man, that is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.

Lawrence, Frieda

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.

Kitman, Marvin

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

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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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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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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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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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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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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It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Twain, Mark

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War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

25.

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

Crook, Jayne

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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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To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

Confucius

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

Asquith, Margot

33.

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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Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

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There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Manor, Rachel

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Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.

Davis, Rebecca Harding

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

Buddha

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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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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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Wars are made to make debt.