Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

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

Robert E. Lee

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

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

Penn, William

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Proverb, Irish

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

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

Monica Fairview

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

Twain, Mark

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

Homer

10.

So you think you can tell heaven from hell blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail, a smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts hot ashes for trees, hot air for a cool breeze, cold comfort for change? Did you exchange a walk on part in a war for a lead role in a cage?

Waters, R.

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One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Agatha Christie

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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 sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

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

Carl Sandburg

16.

All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

17.

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

Poe, Edgar Allan

18.

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

19.

Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

20.

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

21.

I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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

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Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

24.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

Orwell, George

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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of politics by other means.

Clausewitz, Karl Von

28.

War -- what a waist of time. It's all about great achievements for the very few but hideous losses for the very many.

29.

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

Eliot, T. S.

30.

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

31.

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service.

Einstein, Albert

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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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 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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I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Manor, Rachel

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

George Orwell

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Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

Heller, Joseph

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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

45.

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

Westcott, Bishop

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I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.

Russell, Bertrand

48.

How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

Collier, Jeremy

49.

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra