Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about War

War is the great scavenger of thought. It is the sovereign disinfectant, and its red stream of blood is the Condy's Fluid that cleans out the stagnant pools and clotted channels of the intellect. We have awakened from an opium-dream of comfort, of ease, of that miserable poltroonery of the sheltered life. Our wish for indulgence of every sort, our laxity of manners, our wretched sensitiveness to personal inconvenience, these are suddenly lifted before us in their true guise as the specters of national decay; and we have risen from the lethargy of our dilettantism to lay them, before it is too late, by the flashing of the unsheathed sword.

Gosse, Sir Edmund

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

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

Monica Fairview

A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

Bierce, Ambrose

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Carl Sandburg

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

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

Omar Bradley

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Blok, Alexander

11.

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

Ibarruri, Dolores

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once'The Unnecessary War'.

Sir Winston Churchill

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A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

17.

O can't you see, brother -- Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label.

Andrews, C. D.

18.

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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

Robert E. Lee

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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

27.

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

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

30.

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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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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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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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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The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

37.

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.

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War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Manor, Rachel

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Kitman, Marvin

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Neither enemy faces, nor the mothers that love them, come to mind when one is thinking of nothing but endeavouring to survive. Philosophising about war is useless under fire.

Linda Berdoll

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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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America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara