Motivational Quotes

War

God's delays are not God's denials.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about War

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

Albrecht, Karl

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

Heller, Joseph

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

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

Housman, A. E.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Meehan, Francis

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.

Cooke, E. V.

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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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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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.

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

Voltaire

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

Omar Bradley

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

Twain, Mark

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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 like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Carl Sandburg

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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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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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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

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Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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 pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service.

Einstein, Albert

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What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

George Orwell

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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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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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I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.

Einstein, Albert

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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.

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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Poe, Edgar Allan