Fighting Battle Quotes

#1. I am sure that if every leader who goes into battle will promise himself that he will come out either a conqueror or a corpse, he is sure to win. There is no doubt of that. Defeat is not due to losses but to the destruction of the Soul of the leaders-the 'live to fight another day' doctrine.

George S. Patton

#2. Fighting physically signifies spiritual weakness.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#3. I'm a friend in the context that we helped fight a battle together for survival of the American Football League. But I don't consider myself close to Al in recent years. You just don't continually sue your business partners like he has.

Lamar Hunt

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

Tony Evans

#5. On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

Richard Le Gallienne

#6. She wanted to tell him of the years she had spent looking for men such as he to work with; she wanted to tell him that his enemies were hers, that she was fighting the same battle ...

Ayn Rand

#7. Come,' he said, 'come, we must see and act. Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him all the same.

Bram Stoker

#8. Though we be active in the battle, if we are not fighting where the battle is the hottest, we are traitors to the cause.

Martin Luther

#9. Keep this straight in your head: we are not fighting an alien invasion we're leading a revolution . And today the battle begins.

Steven Moffat

#10. The battles, the fights, the bruises, the bites. That's the way true love grows.

Ray Davies

#11. There is no better way to die, than to die in the midst of a battle, fighting to the very end ... like a man.

Enson Inoue

#12. It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.

Sutton E. Griggs

#13. Everybody is fighting a hard battle that you know nothing about, never give up with yours.

Auliq Ice

#14. When I looked into those eyes of his that saw everything, those eyes that saw me, I knew the fight would be worth it. The struggle to let him in when I wanted to barricade the windows and lower the gates would be a battle I'd never regret fighting.

Nicole Williams

#15. Fighting communicable disease was often like fighting a forest fire: sometimes you had to drop back and surrender a battle in hopes of winning the war.

Dan Brown

#16. Like most people, I gave little thought during my life to the scourge of child pornography. But, I now know we are fighting a losing battle. The predators are sophisticated in the use of computers and talented in the manipulation of children.

Kurt Eichenwald

#17. 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

#18. Women are opening businesses at twice the rate of men ... Forty percent of businesses will be owned by women. Women are saying, I don't belong in this company. I'm sick of fighting this battle.

Faith Popcorn

#19. The resilience and the resourcefulness of people to make a better life, to survive, to give their children something better than they had, is so inspiring. I look at how hard it must be to get up every day and fight that battle and I think, Wow, anything I'm doing just has to be in service.

Kathy Calvin

#20. Casting a film is to me one of the most important things next to the writing. If you cast it properly everything takes place very easily. If you cast it improperly you're fighting an uphill battle.

Clint Eastwood

#21. I went off to fight some battle that I'd invented inside me.

Sting

#22. It was Aristotle who said, 'In life, be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Nikki Sex

#23. He raised his hand automatically and tried to make his hair lie flat. "You're fighting a losing battle there, dear," said his mirror in a wheezy voice.

J.K. Rowling

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

Sun Tzu

#25. The women has her own battlefield with every child she brings into the world she fights a battle for the nation

Adolf Hitler

#26. I guess sometimes you just have to fight your battles.

John Wagner

#27. A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.

Criss Jami

#28. Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.

Winston Churchill

#29. fighting with your felling is the most difficult battle ever..!!

Hassan

#30. No man has a right to leave his wife to fight the battle alone if he is able to help. No man has a right to desert his children if he can possibly be of use. As long as he can add to the comfort of those he loves, as long as he can ... be of any use, it is his duty to remain.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#31. In other words, let's give our young women the right weapons to fight with as they charge naked into battle, instead of ordering them to get back in the house and put some goddamn clothes on.

Amanda Palmer

#32. What a battle a man must fight everywhere to maintain his standing army of thoughts, and march with them in orderly array throughthe always hostile country! How many enemies there are to sane thinking! Every soldier has succumbed to them before he enlists for those other battles.

Henry David Thoreau

#33. Life - give me life until the end,
That at the very top of being,
The battle-spirit shouting in my blood,
Out of the reddest hell of the fight
I may be snatched and flung
Into the everlasting lull,
The immortal, incommunicable dream.

William Ernest Henley

#34. Fight all your battles on your knees and you win every time.

Charles Stanley

#35. I eternally fight internal battles about developing things that only appeal to the East Coast and the West Coast. For years I've been trying to do a Western, nobody's interested in doing a Western, how can that be?

Edward Allen Bernero

#36. The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.

Sean O'Casey

#37. As we fulfill our dream and move toward success, we will not escape fighting

Sunday Adelaja

#38. The season of love is that of battle. The roots of these fights run deep.

Charles Darwin

#39. Anyone can battle for pride, power, vanity, greed, or hate, but war should always be approached with an equal measure of wisdom and strength. It's not just enough to know when to fight, but to know when to lay down the sword and negotiate. Not everything in the world is worth fighting for.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#40. 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

#41. Too often, the idea seemed to be that the cost of being part of Europe was being less like Britain. So after years of fighting to defend Europe against attacks from the Eurosceptic right, it would be fatal to retreat into the same arguments and begin the battle anew.

Douglas Alexander

#42. We are fighting the greatest battle of all time with the most untrained army on earth. If strict discipline is necessary in art and athletics, how can we expect to be advanced Christians and stay in kindergarten?

Vance Havner

#43. I think there comes a point when the outcome of a battle is inevitable but the fighting has not ended. Then the enemy becomes exhaustion and pain. A common enemy. Does the soldier holding in his entrails and facing the death reaper, care any longer what he fought for?" said Quain.

Adrian G. Hilder

#44. Never fear dying, beloved. Dying is the last, but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about. Fear living ... that is a hard battle to fight, a stern discipline to endure, a rough voyage to undergo.

Charles Spurgeon

#45. If you really look at hip-hop dance, it's really a rites-of-passage thing. You never see the arms release down. They're always up in fighting position. It's going to war. What do we say? We say your're going to battle. You go out there and fight.

Rennie Harris

#46. The primary battle which religion must fight today is the battle to justify its own existence.

Georgia Harkness

#47. My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother Shirley, who was fighting a very private, solitary battle with mental illness.

Shawn Amos

#48. The world is full of warfare 'twixt the evil and the good;I watched the battle from afar as one who understoodThe shouting and confusion, the bloody, blundering fight-How few there are that see it clear, how few that wage it right!

Henry Van Dyke

#49. There are certain things about my game I don't want to change, but I think it's about time that I realized I can't fight every battle. Three hundred minutes in penalties is way too many. Way too many.

Rick Tocchet

#50. War? One can lose oneself in the joy of battle, in fighting for a glorious cause, but there are not many glorious causes for which to fight these days.

Donna Tartt

#51. If you're fighting against a minimum wage increase, you're fighting an uphill battle, because most Americans, even most Republicans, are okay with raising the minimum wage.

Frank Luntz

#52. To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

E. E. Cummings

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

George S. Patton

#54. That's why I love fighting, because I get to have a big battle every couple months to make up for the little battles I have to forfeit every day

Ronda Rousey

#55. Love is universal and freely given, yet the ego insists that it be owned, that it obey the ego's stern dictates of when, how and where. In this, the ego will forever fail, for it is fighting the wrong battle. Love can never be limited or exist in separation or isolation.

Maharishi Sadasiva Isham

#56. Daenaira, Magnus realized, had the fighting instinct of a berserker. For her, once battle began, it didn't stop until she no longer felt threatened.

Jacquelyn Frank

#57. No battle is worth fighting except the last one.

Enoch Powell

#58. Every man at some point in his life is gonna lose a battle. He's gonna fight and he's gonna lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle, he does not lose himself.

Eric Taylor

#59. The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.

Herodotus

#60. When the Lord fights the battles of the saints, he does it so effectually that nobody gets nervous but the enemy

Brigham Young

#61. It's always an uphill battle to defeat a Supreme Court nominee, but this is a fight worth having.

Kim Gandy

#62. They have not the heart for this battle. So think of your families, think of your homes, and remember it is they you are fighting for.

Christopher Paolini

#63. I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult.

Emma Watson

#64. The Prime Minister wins debate after debate and loses battle after battle. The country is beginning to say that he fights debates like a war and the war like a debate.

Aneurin Bevan

#65. I'm here to change things so that little girls have someone to look up to. I'm here to fight the eating-disorder battle that millions of people are having and I'm standing up and saying that's not okay. Frankly, I can't fail. I will not fail.

Whitney Thompson

#66. When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling of resentment, before the commander-in-chief can tell whether or not he is in a position to fight, the result is ruin.

Sun Tzu

#67. Justice will be served
And the battle will rage
This big dog will fight
When you rattle his cage
And you'll be sorry that you messed with
The U.S. of A.
'Cause we'll put a boot in your *ss
It's the American way

Toby Keith

#68. Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.

Sun Tzu

#69. Remember: everyone you meet is fighting a mighty battle. Be kind. Be understanding.

John Spence

#70. It's incredible how much stamina you can find when you're fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination.

Alexander Gordon Smith

#71. We will win this battle because we are fighting for our lives and the lives of our Clanmates. Our enemies are already dead. They fight only out of hate and that will be their weakness.

Erin Hunter

#72. The commander must decide how he will fight the battle before it begins. He must then decide who he will use the military effort at his disposal to force the battle to swing the way he wishes it to go; he must make the enemy dance to his tune from the beginning and not vice versa.

Bernard Law Montgomery

#73. 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

#74. The person who abides in solitude and quiet is delivered from fighting three battles: hearing, speech, and sight. Then there remains one battle to fight-the battle of the heart.

Anthony The Great

#75. The road for Arjuna is unexpected. Sri Krishna says you have to face that which you fear the most that which you're most attached to and eliminate it. In this case he has to fight a battle, and the battle is his attachments.

Frederick Lenz

#76. I'm fighting a losing battle here: I'm trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that's one of my biggest downfalls. I haven't gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I'd probably be about 300 pounds.

Carrie Underwood

#77. Our task is not to fight old battles, but to show that there is a third way, a way of marrying together an open competitive society and successful economy with a just and decent society.

Tony Blair

#78. Ultimately, you have to write what's coming at any given point in time. Fighting your instincts for practical reasons is a losing battle.

Jonathan Tropper

#79. The simplest idea of someone coming to your home to pamper you at a time when all your energy is being expended to fight a personal battle, is much more than just feeling good about how you look. Beauty Bus gives its clients renewed internal strength to keep fighting.

Karen O

#80. Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle.

Socrates

#81. The only other things I got from the abstract expressionists is the absolute belief that this canvas is the complete total area of struggle, this is the arena, this is where the fight is taking place, the battle. Everybody believes that, but you have to really believe that and work that way.

Aaron Siskind

#82. When you have resolved to fight a battle, collect your whole force. Dispense with nothing. A single battalion sometimes decides the day.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#83. Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing personally and under fire to direct the fighting while involved in the obscuring smoke of it.

Herman Melville

#84. If his life depended on it, he
had to find out later why that indomitable soldier, accustomed to fighting to the last drop
of blood, had left the final battle of his life unfinished.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#85. Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

Jack Kornfield

#86. Choose to stop fighting and trust God to fight for you. That is how to win a battle.

Joyce Meyer

#87. You don't have to fight every battle. You don't have to respond to every critic. You don't have to be offended because of what others say. You can rise above these things and soar.

Joel Osteen

#88. It takes skill to win a battle, but brains to win a war.

Amy I. Long

#89. At its core, every battle worth fighting is a spiritual battle. Those men were able to succeed only because they humbled themselves and entrusted the battle to God. But

Eric Metaxas

#90. War buddies don't exist in the meeting room. It's a battle between a lot of different officers. Some continue fighting when they don't realize that they have been shot.

Hideo Kojima

#91. You know we don't have to wait until the end of the night, just to say that something's wrong and maybe nobody's right. We're all victims in a battle, that we never had to fight. It's okay. It's alright. Steady now, we're in this thing together.

Brandon Heath

#92. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.

Philo Of Alexandria

#93. I knew tomorrow would be another battle, one that a few days back I wouldn't have even considered, but in that moment it was all I wanted to do. To be there, fighting. For you

Diana T. Scott

#94. In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.

David Suzuki

#95. Watch for a wild boy of no particular clan, ready for anything, always armed. Prefers fighting to toil, drink to fighting, chasing women to booze or battle: may attempt all three concurrently.

Nelson Algren

#96. You don't go into battle because you're sure of victory. You go into battle because it's the right thing to do.

C.J. Redwine

#97. Sword fighting is not a dance, not in battle. You save all that showing off for the duels if you want to. In battle, when you kill, kill quickly, and be ready for the next enemy to come at you. One strike should be all it takes. It's all you'll get

G.R. Matthews

#98. You may not be able to see the battle others are fighting, and you may believe they are confident and have never known sadness or fear, but believe me, they have, so be kind. Take

Anderson Cooper

#99. Fighting is in my very bones. I don't have any fancy, noble reason like anger at my fate. I'm just like a gamecock that launches itself into battle after meaningless battle. I like fighting. That's why I can't stop.

Nahoko Uehashi

#100. Julian was a part of that, the beginning of battle and the cold of the middle of it and the fierceness of the fighting. There was nothing she wanted to look at more in the moments before a battle than his face. Nothing that made her feel more fully at home in herself, more like a Shadowhunter.

Cassandra Clare