Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Renard, Jules

Best Quotes about War

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).

Mamet, David

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

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.

Bagehot, Walter

If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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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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That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

Coward, Noel

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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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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Junius

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

Manor, Rachel

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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

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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

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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

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Ibarruri, Dolores

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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

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Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Kennedy, John F.

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

Confucius

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

Voltaire

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it's fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

47.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.