Motivational Quotes

War

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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Best Quotes about War

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Hoffman, Abbie

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Einstein, Albert

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Agatha Christie

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Voltaire

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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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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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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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

16.

O can't you see, brother -- Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label.

Andrews, C. D.

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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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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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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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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Kraus, Karl

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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

Nightingale, Florence

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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

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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

George Orwell

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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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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So you think you can tell heaven from hell blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail, a smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts hot ashes for trees, hot air for a cool breeze, cold comfort for change? Did you exchange a walk on part in a war for a lead role in a cage?

Waters, R.

28.

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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What are we hoping to get out of it, what's it all in aid of -- is it really just for the sake of a gloved hand waving at you from a golden coach?

Osborne, John

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

31.

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

Sewell, George

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Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.

Early, Gerald

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War is the great scavenger of thought. It is the sovereign disinfectant, and its red stream of blood is the Condy's Fluid that cleans out the stagnant pools and clotted channels of the intellect. We have awakened from an opium-dream of comfort, of ease, of that miserable poltroonery of the sheltered life. Our wish for indulgence of every sort, our laxity of manners, our wretched sensitiveness to personal inconvenience, these are suddenly lifted before us in their true guise as the specters of national decay; and we have risen from the lethargy of our dilettantism to lay them, before it is too late, by the flashing of the unsheathed sword.

Gosse, Sir Edmund

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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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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.

Einstein, Albert

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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Sun Tzu

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

Robert E. Lee

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

49.

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

Kitman, Marvin

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Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma