Motivational Quotes

War

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

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Best Quotes about War

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

Albrecht, Karl

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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

War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Sewell, George

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.

Confucius

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Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.

Westcott, Bishop

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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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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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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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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Cooke, E. V.

18.

War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Johnson, Edward

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

Manor, Rachel

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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

Huxley, Aldous

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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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

Kocher, Gerhard

34.

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

Blok, Alexander

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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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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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I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.

Russell, Bertrand

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For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Sun Tzu

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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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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

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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

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

Voltaire

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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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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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It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.