Top 100 Liddell Quotes
#1. Someone should write a book about how Alice Liddell from Wonderland falls in love with Huckleberry Finn. I might rather want to read that book.
Heather Lyons
#2. I remember that famous line from Olympic runner Eric Liddell. People asked him why he ran and he said, 'When I run, I feel His pleasure.' When I lay my hands on the keyboard, that is exactly how I feel, I feel God's pleasure. It is what he made me to do.
Dave Sterrett
#3. Wonderlawn's lost us for ever. Alis, alas, she broke the glass! Liddell lokker through the leafery, ours is mistery of pain.
James Joyce
#4. I don't think much of Tito Ortiz. He needs to grow balls and sign to fight Chuck Liddell.
Tank Abbott
#5. To ensure attaining an objective, one should have alternate objectives. An attack that converges on one point should threaten, and be able to diverge against another. Only by this flexibility of aim can strategy be attuned to the uncertainty of war.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#6. The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#7. For Caesar met failure each time he relied on the direct, and retrieved it each time he resorted to the indirect.
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#8. Epaminondas himself fell in the moment of victory, and in his death contributed not the least of his lessons to subsequent generations-by an exceptionally dramatic and convincing proof that an army and a state succumb quickest to paralysis of the brain.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#9. I don't have a tolerance for long meetings. I generally expect to get things over with quickly.
Chris Liddell
#10. For there is nothing more intolerable to mankind than suspense; when a thing is once decided, men can but endure whatever out of the catalogue of evils it is their misfortune to undergo.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#11. Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#12. Anyone who, neglecting that fixed hour of prayer, [will] say he can pray at all times but will probably end in praying at no time.
Eric Liddell
#13. Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#14. My day, normally speaking, is: I go the gym in the morning, I go and work for 10 or 12 hours, I have dinner, I go to sleep.
Chris Liddell
#15. I'll always try to go the safest route, but once someone strikes you or puts their hands on you then it's on, at least for me.
Chuck Liddell
#16. If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#17. I don't try to knock 'em out, I just know I will
Chuck Liddell
#18. You will know as much of God, and only as much of God, as you are willing to put into practice.
Eric Liddell
#19. Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future
B.H. Liddell Hart
#20. The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#21. It is thus more potent, as well as more economical, to disarm the enemy than to attempt his destruction by hard fighting ... A strategist should think in terms of paralysing, not of killing.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#23. Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit.
Eric Liddell
#24. In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is removed - if the enemy is led to abandon his purpose.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#25. We are all missionaries. Wherever we go we either bring people nearer to Christ or we repel them from Christ.
Eric Liddell
#26. The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#27. When someone is fearless, when pain isn't a factor, it's impossible to break his spirit.
Chuck Liddell
#28. Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#29. [The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this. In other words, dislocation is the aim of strategy.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#30. No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.
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#31. To foster the people's willing spirit is often as important as to possess the more concrete forms of power.
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#32. For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.
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#33. While hitting one must guard ... In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard.
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#34. Sunday is God's day, and he was committed to honoring it. Just because he was in Paris to compete in the Olympics didn't justify changing his lifelong commitment.
Craig Groeschel
#35. The evolution of the sport is so fast, if you slow down for a second, you're past.
Chuck Liddell
#36. No man who really is a man ever cared for the easy task. There is no enjoyment in the game that is easily won. It is that in which you have to strain every muscle and sinew to achieve victory that provides real joy.
Eric Liddell
#37. Loyalty is a noble quality, so long as it is not blind and does not exclude the higher loyalty to truth and decency.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#38. Keep strong, if possible. In any case, keep cool. Have unlimited patience. Never corner an opponent, and always assist him to save his face. Put yourself in his shoes - so as to see things through his eyes. Avoid self-righteousness like the devil - nothing is so self-blinding.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#39. The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.
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#40. Natural hazards, however formidable, are inherently less dangerous and less uncertain than fighting hazards. All conditions are more calculable, all obstacles more surmountable than those of human resistance.
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#41. Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God's plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins. God's love is still working. He comes in and takes the calamity and uses it victoriously, working out His wonderful plan of love.
Eric Liddell
#42. Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's main forces on the battlefield'. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means - hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#43. The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#44. In a campaign against more than one state or army, it is more fruitful to concentrate first against the weaker partner than to attempt the overthrow of the stronger in the belief that the latter's defeat will automatically involve the collapse of the others.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#45. The kingdom is where the King reigns. If He is reigning in my heart, then the Kingdom of Heaven has come to me.
Eric Liddell
#46. For even the best of peace training is more theoretical than practical experience ... indirect practical experience may be the more valuable because infinitely wider.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#47. Ensure that both plan and dispositions are flexible, adaptable to circumstances. Your plan should foresee and provide for a next step in case of success or failure.
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#48. I've never found that getting physical is ever the best response in a bar. You just have to make sure you keep your distance, and if it gets to a point where it gets aggressive then the best thing to do is go get a bouncer and get the situation resolved intelligently.
Chuck Liddell
#49. I used to think that the causes of war were predominantly economic. I came to think that they were more psychological. I am now coming to think that they are decisively "personal," arising from the defects and ambitions of those who have the power to influence the currents of nations.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#50. The hydrogen bomb is not the answer to the Western peoples' dream of full and final insurance of their security ... While it has increased their striking power it has sharpened their anxiety and deepened their sense of insecurity.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#51. People with disabilities want to be recognised for what they can do, not what they can't do.
Karni Liddell
#52. No man of action has more completely attained the point of view of the scientific historian, who observes the movements of mankind with the same detachment as a bacteriologist observes bacilli under a microscope and yet with a sympathy that springs from his own common manhood. In
B.H. Liddell Hart
#53. You just have to realize that Jet Li is a movie star. He's great at what he does, but if he stepped into our world he wouldn't last long.
Chuck Liddell
#55. I don't sit down and relax very much. I don't desire to.
Chris Liddell
#56. Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#57. As Christians, I challenge you. Have a great aim - have a high standard - make Jesus your ideal ... make Him an ideal not merely to be admired but also to be followed.
Eric Liddell
#58. But Polybius brought out the basic lesson in his reflection-'for as a ship, if you deprive it of its steersman, falls with all its crew into the hands of the enemy; so, with an army in war, if you outwit or out-manoeuvere its general, the whole will often fall into your hands'.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#59. A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#60. The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#61. It has been a wonderful experience to compete in the Olympic Games and to bring home a gold medal. But since I have been a young lad, I have had my eyes on a different prize. You see, each one of us is in a greater race than any I have run in Paris, and this race ends when God gives out the medals.
Eric Liddell
#62. Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best.
Eric Liddell
#63. Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge.
Chris Liddell
#64. Choices in life are not and should not be determined by our life circumstances.
Karni Liddell
#65. Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#66. In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#68. The statesman will soon find himself thwarted in some way or other, will deduce from this opposition a menace first to his plans, then to national prestige, and finally to the existence of the state itself - and so, regarding his country as the party attacked, will engage in a war of defence.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#69. We must face the fact that international relations are governed by interests and not by moral principles.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#70. If you are not guided by God, you will be guided by something or someone else.
Eric Liddell
#71. It would seem that Caesar's recurrent and deep-rooted fault was his concentration in pursuing the objective immediately in front of his eyes to the neglect of his wider object. Strategically he was an alternating Jekyll and Hyde.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#72. And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within.
Eric Liddell
#73. An army should always be so distributed that its parts can aid each other and combine to produce the maximum possible concentration of force at one place, while the minimum force necessary is used elsewhere to prepare the success of the concentration.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#74. In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#75. The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#76. The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#77. War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.
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#78. This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that the indirect is by far the most hopeful and economic form of strategy.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#79. For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#81. While the nominal strength of a country is represented by its numbers and resources, this muscular development is dependent on the state of its internal organs and nerve-system - upon its stability of control, morale, and supply.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#82. But Quebec is an illuminating example of the truth that a decision is produced even more by the mental and moral dislocation of the command than by the physical dislocation of its forces.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#84. So, what genetic disposition do you need to be a CFO? Essentially, you need to be miserable, you need to be the sort of person who takes drinks away from people at the end of a party.
Chris Liddell
#85. Engineering is a fantastic base for any career.
Chris Liddell
#86. One direct approach had, by its vain cost, done much to undo the aggregate advantage which indirect approaches alone had built up. And it is not the least significant feature that the issue was finally settled, in the reverse way, by yet another example of the indirect approach.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#88. The secret of my success over the 400m is that I run the first 200m as fast as I can. Then, for the second 200m, with God's help I run faster.
Eric Liddell
#89. Christ for the world, for the world needs Christ!
Eric Liddell
#90. Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight. It is not willingness to know, but willingness to DO (obey) God's will that brings certainty.
Eric Liddell
#91. The historian's rightful task is to distil experience as a medicinal warning for the future generations, not to distil a drug.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#93. Train hard, get good coaching and don't forget that its mixed martial arts. Don't get tied into one style of fighting and focus on multiple disciplines.
Chuck Liddell
#94. The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#95. I'll fight somebody in my backyard for free, just to see if I'm better than him.
Chuck Liddell
#96. While there are many causes for which a state goes to war, its fundamental object can be epitomized as that of ensuring the continuance of its policy - in face of the determination of the opposing state to pursue a contrary policy. In the human will lies the source and mainspring of conflict.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#97. If, in the quiet of your heart, you feel something should be done, stop and consider whether it is in line with the character and teaching of Jesus. If so, obey that impulse to do it, and in doing so you will find it was God guiding you.
Eric Liddell
#98. A fighter with heart will almost always win out against a fighter with skill but no will.
Chuck Liddell
#99. As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.
B.H. Liddell Hart
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