Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

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

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

What we believe is more important than our material existence, therefore warfare is a legitimate extension of values.

Johnson, Edward

God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

Rockefeller, John D.

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 only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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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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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 coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Voltaire

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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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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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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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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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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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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

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What are we hoping to get out of it, what's it all in aid of -- is it really just for the sake of a gloved hand waving at you from a golden coach?

Osborne, John

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Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

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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.

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It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

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The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Koestler, Arthur

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

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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.

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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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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 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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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Meehan, Francis

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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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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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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Robert E. Lee

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

Hazlitt, William

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You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

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The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner.

Twain, Mark

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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Confucius

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War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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.