Motivational Quotes

War

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

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Best Quotes about War

Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

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

Cooke, E. V.

Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!

Blok, Alexander

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

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

Penn, William

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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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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Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

Runcie, Robert

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

Housman, A. E.

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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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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.

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War -- what a waist of time. It's all about great achievements for the very few but hideous losses for the very many.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Confucius

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Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Benjamin, Walter

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O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief... for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.

Twain, Mark

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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

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Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

Reagan, Ronald

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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking themselves to what extent they are cowards. But the tests they set themselves -- there is a dead body, can you bear to look at it? -- are nothing in comparison with the tests that are sprung on them. It is not the obvious tests that matter (do you go to pieces in a mortar attack?) but the unexpected ones (here is a man on the run, seeking your help -- can you face him honestly?).

Fenton, James

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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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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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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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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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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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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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

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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

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