Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Sun Tzu

Best Quotes about War

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Sewell, George

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

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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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Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

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A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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

Voltaire

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

Andrews, C. D.

16.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man, that is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.

Lawrence, Frieda

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

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

Sun Tzu

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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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

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Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

Reagan, Ronald

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For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Renard, Jules

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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

W. L. George

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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it's fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cooke, E. V.

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Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Hazlitt, William

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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 quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

George Orwell

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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

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War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

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

Graves, Robert

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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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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

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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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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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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