Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about War

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Blok, Alexander

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

Massie, Allan

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Rockefeller, John D.

It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

Baudouin I

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).

Mamet, David

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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I feel sure that coups d'?tat would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Crook, Jayne

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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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War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

21.

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Carl Sandburg

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War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable (such as votes for women and the abolition of unemployment) not merely thinkable but practicable. What is equally important, it can re-create communities of men and give a temporary sense to their lives by uniting them against foreigners and outsiders. This is an achievement beyond the power of the private enterprise economy when left to itself.

Hobsbawm, E. J.

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I think the mark of a great ruler, is not his ability to make war but to achieve peace.

Monica Fairview

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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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Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

Gellhorn, Martha

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

Confucius

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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Koestler, Arthur

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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters -- not to talk in armies and nations and numbers -- but to track it home.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

34.

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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

Sun Tzu

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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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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

40.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.

Breton, Andre

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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice -- is often the means of their regeneration.

Mill, John Stuart

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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner.

Twain, Mark

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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 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 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