Motivational Quotes

War

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

- Benjamin, Walter

Best Quotes about War

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

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

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Churchill, Winston

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

Albrecht, Karl

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

Sun Tzu

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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

Manor, Rachel

12.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Omar Bradley

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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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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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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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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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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

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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

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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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People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything.

Frida Kahlo

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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

28.

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

Georges Clemenceau

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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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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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Bierce, Ambrose

39.

All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

40.

Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man, that is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.

Lawrence, Frieda

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Jefferson, Thomas

45.

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

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What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

48.

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

49.

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

Crook, Jayne

50.

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