Motivational Quotes

War

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about War

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief... for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.

Twain, Mark

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

Mencken, H. L.

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Graves, Robert

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Rockefeller, John D.

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

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

Confucius

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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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Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

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

Manor, Rachel

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Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.

Davis, Rebecca Harding

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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

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

Shakespeare, William

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Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

Twain, Mark

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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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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Sun Tzu

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Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

Gellhorn, Martha

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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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I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Kennedy, John F.

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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.

Westcott, Bishop

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

Buddha

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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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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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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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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

Eliot, T. S.

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My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Carl Sandburg

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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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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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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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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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America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara