Top 100 Life Is A Battle Quotes
#1. Tucker, I want to tell you a secret." She curled my hand into a fist and showed it to me. "Life is a battle, but you can't fight it with your fists." She gently tapped me on the chin with my fist and then put her hand on my chest, " You got to figt it with your heart.
Charles Martin
#2. If life is a battle, then my inner scars are medals for valor, for swiftness, for courage, for passion. Evil is the dark-haired brother of Good; they walk hand in hand - always.
Storm Constantine
#3. Life is a battle; face it.
Life is a jungle; explore it.
Life is a puzzle; study it.
Life is a mystery; solve it.
Life is a game; beat it.
Life is an opponent; defeat it.
Life is a treasure; cherish it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#4. But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!
Charlotte Bronte
#5. All of life is a battle against fear. We fight it on one front, and it sneaks around to our flank." He paused, looked kindly at her. "Yes, Father. I understand." "I regret many things I've done," he said, "but most of all I regret those moments when I said to Fear, 'You are my master.
S.D. Smith
#6. Life is a battle, Sasha. All existence is in conflict. We fight the elements, we fight our consciences, we fight the limitations and eventual mortality of our bodies. All things happen by conflict, of one sort or another.
Joel Shepherd
#7. This earthly life is a battle,' said Ma. 'If it isn't one thing to contend with, it's another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#8. Life is a battle immortal, an eternal struggle between Light and Dark.
Karen Azinger
#9. Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#10. The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all life is a riddle.
G.K. Chesterton
#11. Although some people think that life is a battle, it is actually a game of giving and receiving.
Florence Scovel Shinn
#13. Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march has poorly read his origin and his destiny.
Lydia M. Child
#14. Life is a battle of wits, and many people have to fight it unarmed.
Evan Esar
#15. A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to preserve life, if for no other reason than that he himself is an extension of life around him.
Albert Schweitzer
#16. All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.
Leon Uris
#17. Sir, I am not a brave man ... The truth is, I am an utter craven coward. I have never been within the sound of gunshot or in sight of battle in my whole life that I wasn't so scared that I had sweat in the palms of my hands.
George S. Patton
#18. When you have known someone your whole life you don't need a lot of warm-up time to get into a big argument. All the fore-play has been done years ago, and so the battle sits in your memory like stove gas awaiting the match. A wrong word, a careless allusion, and the old fire is suddenly raging.
Roland Merullo
#19. New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course.
Kathleen Battle
#20. It is sometimes easier to trust God in a life-threatening battle than in the small challenges of daily life.
Max Anders
#21. The question is not ... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have set for myself, if I am the best I can be in the things I do. Am I living up to the reasons I became a singer in the first place?
Kathleen Battle
#22. The wisdom of LIFE eludes even the best ...
For those who pass the test Life is a fest,While, its forever,
A battle for the rest..
Sujit Lalwani
#23. In the midst of meeting new people and making plans, I forgot that my plan is to walk straight into a battle that could claim my life. Right after I realized that my life was worth living.
Veronica Roth
#24. Nothing is ever perfect. There is always some good in the bad and some bad in the good. What is important is to know if the good can make up for the bad. Fight only for those things that matter. Because otherwise after a point the battle will seem pointless.
Mansi Soni
#25. 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
#26. Regardless of the perpetual battle between believers and atheists, for me, religion is a tool of making friends, rather than making enemies.
Abhijit Naskar
#27. Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.
H. Rap Brown
#28. School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle.
Karl G. Maeser
#29. Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.
Barry Sanders
#30. Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men "ought always to pray, and not to faint." How fierce the battle! I know something of the conflict, but I ought not to faint, because I can pray.
G. Campbell Morgan
#31. Blaming the woman for the loss of a child is like blaming the soldier for the loss of his life in battle.
Katherine Longshore
#32. It was Aristotle who said, 'In life, be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Nikki Sex
#33. 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
#34. We do two things in life: We race the clock and everything is a struggle. One way or not, it's a metaphorical battle all of the time.
Sylvester Stallone
#35. After a glorious victory in a grand war, the hardest battle to fight is the first little skirmish of the next campaign.
Pat Riley
#36. In life when we feel we have reached a limit, that is when the true battle begins. Just when you despair and think it is impossible to go any further, will you become apathetic, or will you say it's not over and stand up with an unyielding spirit? The battle is decided by this single determination.
Daisaku Ikeda
#37. The road to success in life is never an individual battle but a collective effort.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#38. Life is war, and marriage provides us with a close and intimate ally with whom we may wage this war. The battle requires bold love, forgiveness, confrontation, and repentance.
Dan B. Allender
#39. Everybody is fighting a hard battle that you know nothing about, never give up with yours.
Auliq Ice
#41. This life is a dance, not a battle. We are all part of this world, not masters of it.
Kate Constable
#42. There is a war out there, and believe me, Fly, it was never really between Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Crusaders and Confucius. The final battle is between those who love, respect, and liberate the body and those who hate it
Rawi Hage
#43. The singers make much of kings who valiantly die in battle, but your life is worth more than a sword. To me at least, who gave it to you.
George R R Martin
#44. Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.
Arthur Lynch
#45. As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.
Marcus Aurelius
#46. Life is about love and as a country that stands united, we lose in the battle that we call love.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#48. I've always welcomed war, but when the last battle ends, what life is left for a warrior?
Andrea Cremer
#49. We as Bible-believing evangelical Christians are locked in a battle. This is not a friendly gentleman's discussion. It is a life and death conflict between the spiritual hosts of wickedness and those who claim the name of Christ.
Francis Schaeffer
#50. 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
#51. I've got to be willing to enter into and do battle with the confusion in order to reach the victory on the other side. It's like, I am here, confusion is in front of me, and just beyond confusion waits the answer or skill I need to take my life in a new and incredible direction.
Andy Andrews
#52. . . . what matters in combat is adaptability, boldness and maintaining A cool exterior, whilst penetrating your enemy's soul with An icy cold stare
- Diary of A Combat Fiend
Soke Behzad Ahmadi
#53. Winning is an inside job. A person who achieves victory is the one that first wins his or her internal battles.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#54. The fight life, that was easy. This is a battle I have every day.
Oscar De La Hoya
#55. Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.
George R R Martin
#56. They're battle scars of a life lived and tangible evidence of her strength. She made another human being. The weight of that knowledge is heavy.
Eliza Lentzski
#57. At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.
George Packer
#58. knowing what the problem is makes up for half the battle towards a better life!
Dasrim Hasik
#59. How can you make light of it? I says.
What should I do? She says. Cry fer the rest of my life? Molly of the Many Sorrows? ... You got battle scars. This is mine, she says. You know what it tells me? I'm a survivor.
Moira Young
#60. For an individual as well as a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. To fight in a battle and live in glory is one mode. To beat a retreat, to surrender and to live the life of a captive is also a mode of survival.
B.R. Ambedkar
#61. People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.
August Strindberg
#62. The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.
Natasha Lyonne
#63. I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.
Carrie Fisher
#64. It's one thing to put on your nation's uniform to give your life for your country. But to dress up in black-market khakis and head into battle in a borrowed bush hat, armed only with a Nikon camera, 10 rolls of film and notebook, is definitely another thing.
Peter Arnett
#65. The world is changing from day to day; it is high time for our writers to take off their masks, look frankly, keenly, and boldly at life, and write about real flesh and blood. It is high time for a brand-new arena for literature, high time for some bold fighters to charge headlong into battle!
Lu Xun
#66. Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me.
Sojourner Truth
#67. One way we could describe the struggle of life would be to say it is a battle between agency and addiction. Agency is our power to choose, and addiction is what happens when we have lost that power and we are controlled by something else.
John Bytheway
#68. A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots in the Battle of Britain, of whom Winston Churchill said 'Never have so many owed so much to so few,' - that is worth praising. But for glory alone? I think not.
Tim O'Reilly
#69. A true friend is like a soldier that never abandons his partner alone in the battle field".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#70. Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
Democritus
#71. The Christian life, then, is a battle, so sharp and full of danger that effort can nowhere be relaxed without loss ...
Huldrych Zwingli
#72. Out on the street I start to run; I need to breathe in this life, the trees, the warmth of my town. I will be able to control my own fate and I will know how to be happy. Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle ...
Shan Sa
#73. The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#74. Life in battle is like a roll of toilet paper....the more you use it, the less you have left.
Charles A. Krohn
#75. Life is not a battle to win but a melody to sing.
Amit Ray
#76. Life is not a battle to win but to sing a melody.
Amit Ray
#77. Life's battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing.
John Masefield
#78. But to be honest, there is only so much battle a man can take. I think all of us crave a quieter life with a tender touch. (Sparhawk)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#79. Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
Edmond About
#80. Commit yourself to a dream. Nobody who tries to do something great, but fails, is a total failure. Why? Because he can always be assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle; he defeated the battle of not trying.
Robert H. Schuller
#81. There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.
Phil Knight
#82. 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
#83. If love is a battlefield and we all get scars ... These were my reminders ... my necessary thorns.
Sabrina Childress
#84. Religious feeling is thus an absolute addition to the subject's range of life. It gives him a new sphere of power. When the outward battle is lost, and the outward world disowns him, it redeems and vivifies an interiour world which otherwise would be an empty waste.
William James
#86. Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse
Joseph Brodsky
#87. I've found in my own life, if you try to struggle against what the universe is telling you, you set yourself up for more of a battle.
Michael Stuhlbarg
#88. The life of separation may be a path of sorrow, but it is the highway of safety; and though the separated life may cost you many pangs, and make every day a battle, yet it is a happy life after all.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#89. Adolescence was only recognised as a life stage in the early 20th century, when psychologists got down to work. Today's generational battle obscures the fact that adulthood is happening later. A new transitional stage has emerged after adolescence: the twenties.
Jane Ridley
#90. For life is practically a battle. To all intents and purposes a battle. Except for a few lucky fellows who can read books, and so avoid the realities.
E. M. Forster
#91. 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
#92. A war is an incarnation. A battle is a day of your life. So we do one day at a time in self-discovery.
Frederick Lenz
#93. A Warrior knows when a battle is worth fighting.
Paulo Coelho
#94. Life has good and bad times. And to get through them you have to battle. Life is not all smooth. I've had my bumps and bruises, like anybody, but I've always tried to look at life like a glass that's half full.
Dick Vitale
#95. Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.
Mahatma Gandhi
#96. Life is a gamble, Vane. It's harsh and painful most of the time, and it's not for the timid. Spoils go to the victor, not to the one who doesn't even show up for the battle.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#97. I wear my wrinkles like battle scars, having earned every last one slaying life's dragons. They boast of my victories and some defeats while their beauty is a wealth of wisdom gained.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#98. There is a distinct feeling of contentment that engulfs your entire being after a day well lived, a battle well fought, and a purpose tirelessly pursued.
Steve Maraboli
#99. Biblical Christianity doesn't fit the world's vision of global solidarity right now as there is a battle against Truth and the world hates that.
Auliq Ice
#100. The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song.
George R R Martin
