Top 100 Life Battles Quotes
#1. All life battles teach us something, even those we lose
Paulo Coelho
#2. People in America get up and go to their nine-to-five jobs every day and are oblivious to all these battles and wars and people dying every minute all over the world. This is life. This is how other countries live. This is a daily occurrence in some places.
Mitchell Zuckoff
#3. She had always assumed that her life would end inside the war, that the war itself would be her eternal present, as it was for Darrow and for her brother. The possibility of time going on, her memories growing dim, the photographs of the battles turning from life into history terrified her.
Tatjana Soli
#4. Not that she didn't about fighting losing battles.
Lisa Unger
#5. Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.
Peter Ustinov
#6. The strongest people are people who faced the toughest situations in life. People who are defeated by the toughest battles are stronger than those who have won by using the escape route!
Israelmore Ayivor
#7. Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one's past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in life were either won on paper or held to a draw.
Jules Feiffer
#8. Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
Nathan Myhrvold
#9. Even in the most uneventful of our lives, we are called upon to choose our battles...
Arundhati Roy
#11. There are some battles you can't win, no matter how much you fight.
Jessamine Verzosa
#12. Running away, avoiding life's battles or giving up robs you of the opportunity to grow and be stronger.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#13. The peaceful warrior's greatest battles don't lie in the external world, but within us. These inner hurdles generate most of the obstacles and difficulties we encounter in daily life. They carry greater danger than outer problems, because they slip, unseen and unnoticed, into our every endeavor.
Dan Millman
#14. I'm just like this. I have no talent for choosing my battles. Life seems, strangely, like a battle to me. The whole thing.
Louise Penny
#15. The most difficult battles in life are those we fight within. - Old Chinese Proverb
Camron Wright
#16. Son, in life you do not fight battles because you expect to win...
...you fight them merely because they need to be fought.
-Snagglepuss
Mark Russell
#17. You are here, alive and awake and for whatever reasons you have fought your battles, it's time to start focusing on what strengths pulled you up when the entire world had knocked you down.
That's where the virtue in self grows.
Nikki Rowe
#18. The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
David O. McKay
#19. I languish around in my life, never quite doing what I set out to do. I am tired of being a silver medalist, and tired of fighting uphill battles that I only sort of win.
Kim Gruenenfelder
#20. Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.
John Lubbock
#21. I didn't just magically end up becoming the person that I am today. I also dealt with different kinds of pain and hardships, and I chose to fight and win over these battles instead of letting it defeat me and become just a mere victim.
Kcat Yarza
#22. That's the way all life's battles are won.. You don't look at the overall picture. You take one step, then another, and another ... until you arrive at your destination.
V.C. Andrews
#23. There are some battles in life that have only two possible outcomes: they either destroy us or they make us strong.
Paulo Coelho
#24. If getting my way as ruler is always going to be so difficult, I'll have to choose my battles carefully, or spend the rest of my life in a state of perpetual exhaustion.
Stacey Jay
#25. For me, the most interesting people seem to have the bumpiest pasts. I prefer to connect with someone who has experienced the struggles, battles, and casualties of life's journey. There is beauty, wisdom, and truth to be found in the scars.
Steve Maraboli
#26. If you're the kind of woman who can withstand the blaze of hellfire he's got burning inside, he battles that and wins, you will know nothing for the rest of your life, no taste, no experience, not even the birth of your children that will be sweeter than the love he'll have for you.
Kristen Ashley
#27. Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles
Garry Kasparov
#28. Procrastination and fear are the enemies of success; the war is lifelong, but the battles are daily.
Noel DeJesus
#29. Now the line was drawn. Lucy had never thought that one of the fiercest battles of her life would be fought over a breakfast table, with quiet words carefully chosen.
Lisa Kleypas
#30. All life's battles teach us something, even those we lose. When you grow up, you'll discover that you have defended lies, deceived yourself, or suffered foolishness. If you're a good warrior you will not blame yourself for this, but neither will you allow your mistakes to repeat themselves.
Paulo Coelho
#31. Every single person suffers; every marriage has some major battles. Life pulls you in different directions. But if you try, and you're lucky, you can find your way back to each other.
Taya Kyle
#32. Our greatest battles lie deep within our own psyches as we face fear, insecurity, and self-doubt. These internal adversaries pose a far greater threat to our lives and our well-being than the external difficulties of daily life. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Plato
Dan Millman
#33. Her father lov'd me; oft invited me;
Still question'd me the story of my life,
From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes,
That I have pass'd.
William Shakespeare
#34. If only thy eyes flutter once, the bees lose their direction and the fighting men their aim!
Avijeet Das
#35. My life's been defined by my actions. I've shaped my destiny through my battles. I would rather keep chasing after my dreams until I crumble into dust than sit around waiting for fate to show me mercy.
Koji Suzuki
#36. I was reminded as I was reviewing my life, that I have been in too many conflicts, too many wars, political battles, military battles, civil strifes in government. And always one lesson stands out and that is, those whom you fight most passionately often turn out to be your best friends.
Ferdinand Marcos
#37. Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.
Anton Chekhov
#38. But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.
Paulo Coelho
#39. When you are all wasted
by the battles of life
And finally,
given up on ideologies
An embalming hand comes out of Grace
Race towards it
Hold it
Embrace it
Cut off your garments
Expose your wounds
Bare your heart
Heal
Forget
Live
Gabriel Iqbal
#40. The most critical, defining battles we wage in life, we wage alone. Against ourselves. It
Karen Marie Moning
#42. Live is not about constantly fighting to keep someone in your life. It is about constantly fighting for a better life together.
Shannon L. Alder
#43. There are some battles, no matter how much you don't want to fight them, that you just have to fight. That are worth giving your life for.
Paullina Simons
#44. The enemy doesn't warn its target. Emergencies do not make appointments, and the greatest battles of life are often surprises.
Wayde Goodall
#46. If you haven't got a sense of humor you're making your life a hundred times harder. It doesn't matter what happens to you, if you can have a laugh about it, and don't take yourself so serious, you have the battles halfway won.
Jack Bruce
#47. Exactly, Kitten.Your pride isn't worth it. It's not worth the pain. It's not worth the torture I, or anyone else could put you through. It sure as fuck isn't worth your life. Be smart! Fight the battles you can win and accept the ones you can't. That's how you survive. - Caleb
C.J. Roberts
#48. Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Norman Vincent Peale
#49. Get the mind right, the body will follow, you lose some battles in life, but if you always put your heart and passion forward first as your main objective, you will win the war, that's what gives you the strength to get off the ground ... and do it again.
Greg Plitt
#51. I see myself living by correct principles and accomplishing worthy purposes. One of my favorite quotes is, "The greatest battles of life are fought out every day in the silent chambers of one's own soul." (David O. McKay).
Stephen Covey
#52. I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.
August Strindberg
#53. Mr Cricket: So what are you going to do?
Rose Red: Fight like a motherfucker, of course. Fight like I've got a chance. Hell if I'm just going to roll over and show throat.
Bill Willingham
#54. Don't count me out ... I have been built and strengthened by life's battles. When you think I'm tired; I'm just getting started. When you think I'm dead; that's when I'm most alive.
Steve Maraboli
#55. Choose battles that you can win without losing your heart and your soul.
Kristin Cast
#56. Time spent worrying - about anything - provides no emotional or physical benefit to us; such things only weaken us for the fights we must endure in our lives.
A.J. Darkholme
#57. I'm such a strong human being. I amaze myself even. If only you knew what I've been up against, you'd want my autograph. I'm a real life superhero.
Crystal Woods
#58. Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.
John Eldredge
#59. There are so many battles worth fighting for. The ones not worth fighting are the insecure battles that rage in another person's mind.
Shannon L. Alder
#60. In my life, I've been both the besieged and the besieged, and I know damned well which I prefer!
Sharon Kay Penman
#61. Gabriel Oak: "It's time for you to fight your own battles... and win them too.
Thomas Hardy
#62. Life is seen as an ongoing war between art and philistinism - and although the philistines may win some of the battles, it is literature that always wins the war.
Helon Habila
#63. What happens to you, Uhtred, is what you make happen. You will grow, you will learn the sword, you will learn the way of the shield wall, you will learn the oar, you will give honor to the gods, and then you will use what you have learned to make your life good or bad.
Bernard Cornwell
#64. Principle: To counter aimlessness, you must define your battles wisely, and build your life around winning them.
Todd Henry
#65. Seek happiness now within you. Don't look anywhere else or for anyone to help bring that happiness to your life. Happiness comes as a reward of battles we win. Happiness will come from the will to be strong minded and the readiness to face the next challenge with a smile.
Sal Martinez
#66. Your trials equal the power of God that works in you. If your battles are intense, then what God has deposited in you is deep.
Paul Gitwaza
#67. By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.
Emmett Kelly
#68. Our lives consist of a series of internal battles, deep within us, where weapons don't exist and technology is unable to create devices that better the best of yesterday. Our knowledge is our only defense; caution, our only friend.
A.J. Darkholme
#69. More than whimsy, joy is a weapon we use to fight life's battles.
Margaret Feinberg
#71. Do fight unwinnable battles. Sometimes they're worth it.
Jesse Petersen
#72. A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless' ...
Christopher Hitchens
#73. You'd put our parents at risk for some piece of tail?" Ghleanna demanded.
"She saved my life."
"You can fight your own battles!"
"Not when I'm knocked out on my ass!"
"You mean knocked out on your fat ass!"
"My ass, like the rest of me, is perfection!
G.A. Aiken
#74. Defeating the enemy through deception with little loss of life is better than fighting face-to-face with the loss of many lives on both sides.
Aleksandra Layland
#75. 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
#76. Why does anyone fight a war? To protect a way of life, to find or support loved ones. To avenge those lost. Or maybe because it's a calling. Because someone has to. Because there's a line no enemy should be allowed to cross.
Tracy Banghart
#77. Your worries are my worries. Your battles are my battles. I will stand by you for all of my days. I will witness your life. I will look to you and follow. You will never be alone, for I will be at your side. Together we will forever be.
M. Topping
#79. All battles have some use, including those in which we were defeated.
Paulo Coelho
#80. How beautiful it is to have inner peace while knowing that everyone is busy with their own battles in life.
Debasish Mridha
#81. Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield, but his sense of poetic justice, his sublime faith in life and its infinite resources, guided the battles.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
#82. And she knew that her fate wasn't set by how or where she was born, but the decisions she made and the battles she fought. It didn't matter if she had eight toes or ten, amber eyes or blue. What mattered was what she set out to do.
Robert Beatty
#83. Our faith is built in the dark, in the valleys, and during the back-breaking battles in life.
Dana Arcuri
#84. Faith is difficult to conquer and requires daily battles if it is to be maintained.
Paulo Coelho
#85. Winning is an inside job. A person who achieves victory is the one that first wins his or her internal battles.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#86. In all of our battles, let's roar with the conquering powers of love and determination.
D. Allen Miller
#87. I don't let things stress me out, and I'm doing my best with all the battles life presents.
Jake Shears
#88. Nevertheless this was life. I could wish that life was fair and that things were different, but this is what it was and I was determined to make the best of it. I needed to move forward, and fight the battles put in front of me and cherish the friendships that surrounded me.
Rachel Higginson
#89. No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife, From strength to strength advancing
only he His soul well-knit, and all his battles won, Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.
Matthew Arnold
#90. The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there she may learn the reality and the earnestness of life.
Elizabeth Prentiss
#91. Of course things like that complicate life, and there are all kinds of
readjustments to think about, battles to fight and lines to draw.
Nick Hornby
#92. My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.
GG Allin
#93. Choose your battles - small enough to win but big enough to matter.
Carlos Wallace
#94. We win some, but we lose many. We lose a lot. We lose our friends and we lose our family. In the end we lose everything. No matter who's with us, we always die alone. When you fight your battles, whatever battles you fight, it's always going to be about life.
Neil Gaiman
#95. The sense of danger made her lift up her head higher. There were battles coming. But life was meant to be a battle, wasn't it? There was nothing to fear.
Regina Doman
#96. The belief that life was hard and often its worst battles were fought in private, that it was possible to walk through fear and come out scorched but still breathing.
Gail Caldwell
#97. Life's battles don't often go, to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or late the one who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Dorcas Wood
#98. Most of life's battles are fought inside ourselves, & our greatest periods of growth usually come during crises.
Robert Scheid
#99. I'll bet most of the companies that are in life-or-death battles got into that kind of trouble because they didn't pay enough attention to developing their leaders.
D. Wayne Calloway
#100. After all these years, his best friend is malaria.
Even on the brink of an Alaska summer, it comes calling: a bone-deep chill one night, a ministry of sweat the next. Calling him back to old battles.
Louis Bayard
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