Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about War

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Pound, Ezra

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

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

Confucius

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

I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Shakespeare, William

Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

10.

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Ibarruri, Dolores

12.

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.

13.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Mencken, H. L.

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The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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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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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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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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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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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters -- not to talk in armies and nations and numbers -- but to track it home.

Lawrence, D. H.

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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Manor, Rachel

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

Voltaire

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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 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 has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Georges Clemenceau

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The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

Twain, Mark

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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.

33.

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

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

Twain, Mark

35.

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

36.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Bierce, Ambrose

38.

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

Renard, Jules

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

Benjamin, Walter

40.

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

41.

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 a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.

Kitman, Marvin

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

Monica Fairview

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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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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

46.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

47.

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

48.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Koestler, Arthur

49.

What we believe is more important than our material existence, therefore warfare is a legitimate extension of values.

Johnson, Edward

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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma