Motivational Quotes

War

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

- Solomon Short

Best Quotes about War

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

Homer

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

Hazlitt, William

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

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

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

11.

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

Andrews, C. D.

12.

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

Proverb, Irish

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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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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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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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The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

22.

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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War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

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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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A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Benjamin, Walter

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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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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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No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.

Dahlberg, Edward

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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view realistically; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent -- war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.

Sontag, Susan

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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

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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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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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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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

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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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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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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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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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The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service.

Einstein, Albert

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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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

Cooke, E. V.