Motivational Quotes

War

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.

Best Quotes about War

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

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Voltaire

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

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

Sun Tzu

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Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

Heller, Joseph

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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

Twain, Mark

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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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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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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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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

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

Crook, Jayne

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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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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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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

25.

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

Westcott, Bishop

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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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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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Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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.

32.

You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

Will Rogers

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Robert E. Lee

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A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

39.

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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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 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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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Hazlitt, William

43.

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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The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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