Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

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

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Westcott, Bishop

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

Homer

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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.

10.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

Weil, Simone

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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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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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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Hoffman, Abbie

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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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No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Baudouin I

18.

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

Georges Clemenceau

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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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When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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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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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

28.

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

31.

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

32.

Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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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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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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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.

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

37.

It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Voltaire

41.

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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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

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The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.

Arendt, Hannah

44.

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

Einstein, Albert

45.

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Reagan, Ronald

49.

All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

50.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.