Fight A Losing Battle Quotes

#1. The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.

G.K. Chesterton

#2. Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.

Charles Hamilton Houston

#3. So what happens when your universe begins to get off balance, and you don't have any experience with bringing it back to center? All you can do is fight a losing battle, waiting for those walls to collapse, and your life to become one huge mystery ashtray.

Neal Shusterman

#4. Men like you preach change, but I wonder. Is this a battle we can really fight?"
"You're fighting it already, Goodman Mennis. You're just losing horribly.

Brandon Sanderson

#5. There's times a woman's just got to fight, even if she knows it's a losing battle.

Novala Takemoto

#6. Do we fight? If we do, then know that in battle there is only winning and losing. Rules against hurting are for games.

Robert Jordan

#7. Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.

W.B.Yeats

#8. To flee from the battle is the worst thing that could happen. It is worse than losing the fight, because we can always learn something from defeat; if we flee, all we do is declare that our enemy has won.

Paulo Coelho

#9. I do that which I do in every place. Here also, at the gateway of that garden into which time has not entered, I fight with time my ever-losing battle, because to do that diverts me.

James Branch Cabell

#10. Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.

George Eliot

#11. You know, I've tried staying away from you. I've tried ignoring how I feel about you, which isn't how I should feel. But it's like fighting a losing battle. And I don't want to fight it anymore. I don't want to ignore this.

J. Lynn