Motivational Quotes

War

Wars are made to make debt.

- Pound, Ezra

Best Quotes about War

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

Homer

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

Confucius

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

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

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

Massie, Allan

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.

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

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

Georges Clemenceau

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

Heller, Joseph

10.

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

Johnson, Edward

11.

There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Carl Sandburg

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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.

15.

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

Omar Bradley

16.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

18.

Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.

Early, Gerald

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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

20.

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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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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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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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

27.

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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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 award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Graves, Robert

30.

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

31.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated -- there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

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

Buddha

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

Penn, William

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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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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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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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When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on.

Sewell, George

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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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

Towbridge, J. T.

49.

A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More people are realizing that bonuses look like raises, but really aren't.

Bauman, Al

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

Hazlitt, William