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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Penn, William

Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

10.

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

Homer

11.

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

Crook, Jayne

12.

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

13.

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

14.

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

Monica Fairview

15.

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

16.

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.

Benedict, Ruth

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

20.

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

21.

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

Hoffman, Abbie

22.

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

Benjamin, Walter

23.

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

24.

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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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

26.

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.

27.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

28.

War is the father of all things. But who is the mother?

Kocher, Gerhard

29.

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

Epictetus

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

35.

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.

36.

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

Robert E. Lee

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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

38.

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

39.

A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

40.

If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.

Albrecht, Karl

41.

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

42.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

43.

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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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

Nightingale, Florence

45.

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Weil, Simone

46.

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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The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good deeds and an inescapable punishment for bad. Meditate upon this truth, and seek always to earn good wages from Destiny.

Fu Wu Ming

48.

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

49.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

Huxley, Aldous

50.

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

Blok, Alexander