Battle Won Quotes

#1. One cannot deny that if a person has the energy to get you interested and excited, then that is half the battle won, like all the great leaders had this quality.

Gale Harold

#2. The ability to take a walk from one point to the next point, that is half the battle won.

Maira Kalman

#3. A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

Ferdinand Foch

#4. On every team, there is a core group that sets the tone for everyone else. If the tone is positive, you have half the battle won. If it is negative, you are beaten before you ever walk on the field.

Chuck Noll

#5. So in that dark and tangled night,
the chaw of chaws rose to flight,
with talons bloodied, feathers singed.
A battle won - a war begins!

Kathryn Lasky

#6. Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#7. The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.

Simon Schama

#8. There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.

Nora Roberts

#9. Life is a gift that must be given back and joy should arise from its possession. It's too damn short and that's a fact. Hard to accept this earthly procession to final darkness is a journey done, circle completed, work of art sublime, a sweet melodic rhyme. A battle won.

Dean Koontz

#10. The only thing worse than a battle lost is a battle won.

Anonymous

#11. After the Battle of Waterloo, Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington - who managed to defeat Napoleon by the skin of his teeth - surveyed the blood-soaked cornfields of Belgium and wrote in a letter, "Nothing except a battle lost can be half as melancholy as a battle won.

Chris Pourteau

#12. Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.

Robert Jordan

#13. And, although you think the memory of the battle won will be a pleasure - if it is a pleasure, you've lost the war.

Karen Marie Moning

#14. Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

Arthur Wellesley

#15. If I had a child who wanted to be a teacher, I would bid him Godspeed as if he were going to war. For indeed the war against prejudice, greed, and ignorance is eternal, and those who dedicate themselves to it give their lives no less because they may live to see some fraction of the battle won.

James Hilton

#16. Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life.

Charles R. Swindoll

#17. You cannot prevent a major catastrophe, but you can build an organization that is battle-ready, where people trust one another. In military training, the first rule is to instill soldiers with trust in their officers - because without trust, they won't fight.

Peter Drucker

#18. Stop giving yourself permission to fail;
start giving yourself permission to succeed.
You cannot win battles you have already lost in your mind.
You cannot lose battles you have already won in your heart.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#19. The best battle is the battle that is never fought. The best war is the war that is won without a battle.

Frederick Lenz

#20. The Battle of Normandy was won on the beaches of Dieppe

Louis Mountbatten

#21. Maketa," I said, throwing myself down in the sand. "I lost. The ocean won."
She smiled. "Was it a good feeling?"
"Mm," I said.
"That's good," she said. "Have another rice ball?

Ruth Ozeki

#22. A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It will cost the world dearly.

Rick Riordan

#23. The battle for popularity is won, but the war for respect as a whole person is lost.

Mary Pipher

#24. Some victories are merely defeat wearing the wrong clothing

Kiersten White

#25. I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

#26. Gnats drifted on the same warm summer breeze that saw colorful paper lanterns swaying on their strings. Lily of the valley filled jam jars at each table, but sweet peas had won out in the battle to fragrance the evening air.

Anouska Knight

#27. Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles

George S. Patton

#28. Every time, I've won because I could understand the way my enemy though. From what they did. I could tell what they though I was doing, how they wanted the battle to take shape. And I played off of that. I'm very good at that. Understanding how other people think. - Ender Wiggin

Orson Scott Card

#29. I have won every battle, yet somehow I'm losing the war.

Anonymous

#30. Battles are not won by strength alone!

Zhuge Liang

#31. The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.

Louise Brown

#32. Such professions as the soldier and the lawyer ... give ample opportunity for crimes but not much for mere illusions ... If you have lost a battle you cannot believe you have won it; if your client is hanged you cannot pretend that you have gotten him off.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#33. They had a big court battle over who got to keep me. Mom won; she made me live with Dad.

Christopher Titus

#34. Certain battles were won by retreating.

Eoin Colfer

#35. Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.

William Ralph Inge

#36. You've got to always remember that the devil is a defeated foe. The battle has been won. You don't need to fight him. So what do you do? You simply stand and exercise your authority. All you've got to do is exercise your authority.

Pedro Okoro

#37. There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

Orison Swett Marden

#38. Almost 70 per cent of your fitness battle is won the day you realise what your body needs and when. I've made my own diets, and I decide for myself what works for me.

Arjun Rampal

#39. You can't lose this war, because your Father has already won. This isn't a battle of skin and bones, flesh and blood. This is about your faith, about your identity. When you discover who you truly are, you discover there is no war left to fight at all.

Rachelle Dekker

#40. When all is said and done we simply must make teaching in this country an honorable profession-since it's in the classrooms of America where the battle for excellence, ultimately, will be won or lost.

Ernest L. Boyer

#41. Brambleclaw dipped his head. "The battle is won," he growled. "The clearing is ours. Do you concede or shall we fight for it again?"
Blackstar flashed a look of burning hatred over his shoulder. "Take it," he hissed. "It was never worth the blood that has been spilled here today.

Erin Hunter

#42. Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

George Orwell

#43. Although spiritual growth puts our wills to the test, after the battle has been won, we recognize that the Lord is the true victor in the struggle.

Max Anders

#44. It was not battle, it was just the endless march, village to village, without
purpose, nothing won or lost. They marched for the sake of the march.

Tim O'Brien

#45. I understand that what you're doing when you call 911--it sounds so perfunctory--is announcing to strangers that you are losing the battle. I no longer have the strength, I no longer have the answers, the trouble is winning, and won't you please come help"?

Michael Perry

#46. If a battle can not be won do not fight it.

Sun Tzu

#47. A war without a strategy cannot be won. Then it is merely a battle where more lives are lost than necessary.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#48. There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.

Jane Austen

#49. The war against Napoleon was won not by England but by Russia, Austria, and Prussia; but England won the last battle and she won the peace.

J. Christopher Herold

#50. The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Margaret Thatcher

#51. She had won the battle against her memories. But one form of torture remained, untouched by the years, the torture of the word why?

Ayn Rand

#52. Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.

F. E. Adcock

#53. Not becoming the hate has been the biggest test of my life, one I've won, but one I still have to battle everyday.

Sarah Michelle Lynch

#54. Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory is won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

Sun Tzu

#55. We have won a battle, not a war

George R R Martin

#56. Every battle, every victory has been won!

Pat Boone

#57. At the final end you won the war after losing every battle.

Bob Dylan

#58. Demons run when a good man goes to war
Night will fall and drown the sun
When a good man goes to war
Friendship dies and true love lies
Night will fall and the dark will rise
When a good man goes to war
Demons run, but count the cost
The battle's won, but the child is lost

Steven Moffat

#59. Once a fear has been faced, whether the battle is won or lost, the soul becomes cleansed.

Dan Skinner

#60. The old guard in any society resents new methods, for old guards wear the decorations and medals won by waging battle in the accepted manner.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#61. You are not fighting for victory - you are fighting from victory. This battle has already been won!

Tony Evans

#62. Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

Arthur Wellesley

#63. It Is in the Agricultural Sector That the Battle for Long- Term Economic Development Will Be Won or Lost.

Gunnar Myrdal

#64. The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

Dorothy Day

#65. There are no short cuts to victory, battles must be fought for victories to be won.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#66. I won the vote but shunned the soft parade
[ ... ]
I won every battle and lost the war
(Geronimo)

Shannon McNally

#67. They will find a fourth, and the battle between light and dark will be won. A new leader will rise from the shadows of his death, and the Clans will survive beyond the memories of his memories. This is how it has always been, and how it will always be.

Erin Hunter

#68. The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.

Jim Ramstad

#69. A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and
get under way.

Soren Kierkegaard

#70. Do not let the hero in your soul parish, in lonely frustration, for the life you deserved but never have been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

Ayn Rand

#71. Each spilt drop of blood, in any country under whose flag one has not been born, is an experience passed on to those who survive, to be added later to the liberation struggle of his own country. And each nation liberated is a phase won in the battle for the liberation of one's own country.

Che Guevara

#72. All battles are won before they start.

Sun Tzu

#73. Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to woman the role of money-handler rather than money-maker, and our assigned specialty is far more likely to be home economics than financial economics.

Paula Nelson

#74. Not to write, for many of us, is to die. We must take ares each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle cannot be entirely won, but fight we must, if only a gentle bout. The smallest effort to win means, at the end of each day, a sort of victory.

Ray Bradbury

#75. If there is honesty in your face, the battle is won. It doesn't have to be the most beautiful face in the world. The audience can relate to you then. They feel love, not lust, for you.

Preity Zinta

#76. In battle, if you you make your opponent flinch, you have already won.

Miyamoto Musashi

#77. The thing I want you to understand," Ayn was saying, "is that no matter how hard the battle, it can be won. You can break through.

Nathaniel Branden

#78. The battle of Iwo Island has been won. The United States Marines by their individual and collective courage have conquered a base which is as necessary to us in our continuing forward movement toward final victory as it was vital to the enemy in staving off ultimate defeat.

Chester W. Nimitz

#79. So the princess discovered that when one loves a forbidden thing, one loses what ones loves most. This truth is a hard won battle for each who finds it and is always gained by loss.

David R. Mains

#80. You can't take it with you! Whatever you have there you will have already sent ahead in the way of souls won, victories won, battles won and rewards won for your service here!

David Berg

#81. Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person.

R. Kelly

#82. There are more battles won through prayer than by any other means.

Chuck Smith

#83. He closed by telling us the real battle is won in the mind. It's won by guys who understand their areas of weakness, who sit and think about it, plotting and planning to improve. Attending to the detail. Work on their weaknesses and overcome them. Because they can.

Marcus Luttrell

#84. The war is won but the battle rages, the lion is toothless yet roars, the clown frowns but the Son Shines, the Trumpet is ready to sound, the sword drawn, and the white horse ready to descend, whose rider is called Faithful and True.

Jonah Books

#85. I finally figured out how hard the battle between your love for me and your love for art, your future, and your career must've been. It just hurts to know art won, is all." ~Gage

Shanora Williams

#86. Success isn't always about triumph. It's about carrying on, continuing the battle. Even the fight can't be won.

Shannon Messenger

#87. Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.

Marquis De Lafayette

#88. Believe that you can whip the enemy, and you have won half the battle.

J. E. B. Stuart

#89. Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second

Victor Hugo

#90. Beauty is the enemy . We try to conquer not feeling beautiful all our lives. It's a battle that can't be won. There's no definition of beauty. The only way to achieve beauty is to feel it from inside without breaking down into individual physical attributes

Miley Cyrus

#91. I won't start the battle, but if it comes, I'll finish it.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#92. I've won because I could understand the way my enemy thought. From what they did. I could tell what they thought I was doing, how they wanted the battle to take shape.

Orson Scott Card

#93. Along with the fight to desegregate schools, we must desegregate the entire cultural statement of America, we must desegregate the minds of the American people or we will find that we have won the battle and lost the war.

John Oliver Killens

#94. A battle can be won before it's ever fought by choosing the right ground.

Rick Riordan

#95. No battle was ever won by wholly sane men.

Lynn Viehl

#96. I was reminded of our history lessons, in which we learned about the loot or bounty an army enjoys when a battle is won. I began to see the awards and recognition just like that. They were little jewels without much meaning. I needed to concentrate on winning the war.

Malala Yousafzai

#97. Perhaps that's the best way to recover, to return to the way things were before as quickly as we can. We won the Great Battle, so nothing needs to change.

Erin Hunter

#98. The battle for women's rights has largely been won. The days when they were demanded and discussed in strident tones should be gone forever. I hate those strident tones we hear from some Women's Libbers.

Margaret Thatcher

#99. You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won't. Especially not astrophysicists - we see the biggest picture there is. We understand how small we are in the cosmos. We understand how fragile and temporary our existence is here on Earth.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#100. It was a star," Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. "A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won, oh, yes, my children, it won. But it lost its life in the winning.

Madeleine L'Engle