Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Cooke, E. V.

Best Quotes about War

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Robert E. Lee

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

Renard, Jules

All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

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

I feel sure that coups d'?tat would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

10.

It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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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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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 quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

George Orwell

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It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

22.

I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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

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When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

Georges Clemenceau

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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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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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Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

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

Hazlitt, William

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

34.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Kraus, Karl

35.

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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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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Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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

41.

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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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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War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.

Proverb, Irish

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

Kitman, Marvin

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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