Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

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

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

Monica Fairview

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

Robert E. Lee

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

Homer

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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 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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Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.

Rorty, Richard

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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Manor, Rachel

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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

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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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War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.

Maistre, Joseph De

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I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

29.

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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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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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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Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.

Davis, Rebecca Harding

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

Sun Tzu

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

W. L. George

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

Carl Sandburg

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Blok, Alexander

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

43.

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

Voltaire

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Jefferson, Thomas

47.

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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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann