Motivational Quotes

War

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about War

The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable (such as votes for women and the abolition of unemployment) not merely thinkable but practicable. What is equally important, it can re-create communities of men and give a temporary sense to their lives by uniting them against foreigners and outsiders. This is an achievement beyond the power of the private enterprise economy when left to itself.

Hobsbawm, E. J.

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

Robert E. Lee

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

Kitman, Marvin

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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 seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

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It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

Clemenceau, Georges

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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Monica Fairview

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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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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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When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on.

Sewell, George

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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

Crisp, Quentin

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How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

Collier, Jeremy

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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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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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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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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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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 coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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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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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

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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

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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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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Hoffman, Abbie

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

Homer

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I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.

Frank, Anne

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

Cooke, E. V.