Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Proverb, Irish

Best Quotes about War

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Shakespeare, William

For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Heller, Joseph

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

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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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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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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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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice -- is often the means of their regeneration.

Mill, John Stuart

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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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

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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

18.

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

19.

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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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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I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.

Johnson, Samuel

23.

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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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

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

Koestler, Arthur

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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

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

Ibarruri, Dolores

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Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

34.

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

Benjamin, Walter

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A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.

Kitman, Marvin

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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

37.

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

Kraus, Karl

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Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.

Meehan, Francis

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!

Blok, Alexander

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

Crook, Jayne

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Massie, Allan

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America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking themselves to what extent they are cowards. But the tests they set themselves -- there is a dead body, can you bear to look at it? -- are nothing in comparison with the tests that are sprung on them. It is not the obvious tests that matter (do you go to pieces in a mortar attack?) but the unexpected ones (here is a man on the run, seeking your help -- can you face him honestly?).

Fenton, James

49.

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