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

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Ulysses S. Grant

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

Twain, Mark

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

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

Ibarruri, Dolores

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

Crisp, Quentin

Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

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 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

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.

Benedict, Ruth

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

Albrecht, Karl

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

W. L. George

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

George Orwell

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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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The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Omar Bradley

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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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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their senses and feelings to become numbed and indifferent, have emerged from their experiences with growth and humanness greater than that achieved through almost any other means.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Carl Sandburg

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

Weil, Simone

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

Homer

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Cooke, E. V.

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

Kitman, Marvin

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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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A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.

Shaw, George Bernard

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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Manor, Rachel

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

Confucius