My Own Battle Quotes

#1. I had my own battle tactics.

Lech Walesa

#2. The noise was deafening, and no one could have heard me anyway as I let out my own battle cry, which I figured was worth a shot. What the hell.
I DON'T BELIEVE IN FAERIES!

Jim Butcher

#3. 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

#4. It was merely a few words of encouragement, the sort of words that are uttered in the din of battle, not distinguishable individually but restoring confidence by the fact of being spoken.

George Orwell

#5. 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

#6. A nathion is as strong as the hearts of its women. It's warriors may be brave and many, but when the blood of it's women spills upon the earth, the battle is lost.

Pam Godwin

#7. Without cavalry, battles are without result.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#8. Perhaps I occasionally sought to give, or inadvertently gave, to the student a sense of battle on the intellectual battlefield. If all you do is to give them a faultless and complete and uninhabited architectural masterpiece, then you do not help them to become builders of their own.

Carl-Gustaf Rossby

#9. Jev was certain the words "should've known better" would go somewhere on her tombstone, but at the moment her focus shifted to the dozens of angry pixies honed in on her.

Katherine McIntyre

#10. When I was younger, I never thought there could be anything better than the glory of battle. (Sparhawk)
And now? (Taryn)
Now I would much rather coax a smile from your face. (Sparhawk)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#11. 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

#12. You wanted to show us ... a battle droid? The most incompetent droid soldier in the history of both the Republic and the Empire. A mechanical comedy of errors.

Chuck Wendig

#13. Because I've been around guys like that my whole life. He will always be a little boy who acts like a dog. Guys don't really change who they are at their core. Even if he wanted to, it would be a completely uphill battle, and he's not man enough for the journey.

Sheri Fink

#14. Nervous energy is the ammunition we take into any mental battle. If you don't have enough of it, your concentration will fade. If you have a surplus, the results will explode.

Garry Kasparov

#15. If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.

Johann Most

#16. Somehow whether or not the war is winnable is beyond our scope, an irrelevant detail. We don't do it to win anymore; we do it because it's what we know how to do. Get ready to go. Get ready to come back. And the moments in between we mark on the calendar. It's our battle rhythm.

Angela Ricketts

#17. A book may be as great a thing as a battle.

Benjamin Disraeli

#18. 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

#19. It was only in university I was told that I was dyslexic. It kind of gave me the confidence to be able to pursue academia in the way that I always thought I could. I guess that was a bit of battle and just my own kind of negative thoughts about what I can achieve.

Erin Richards

#20. When the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.

Twyla Tharp

#21. Almost 70 per cent of your fitness battle is won the day you realise what your body needs and when. I've made my own diets, and I decide for myself what works for me.

Arjun Rampal

#22. I suffered my own battles. I suffer still.

Carla H. Krueger

#23. To me, flying free is doing what I want to do, even if it's different from what everybody expects me to do. I'm flying free when I win the battle between me and the people who thought I should go down this road and I find my own road.

Crystal Waters

#24. Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my experiences there have been a healthy dose of reality, fueling my own sense of urgency to do my part in reducing the preventable suffering of the incredible women I met.

Mandy Moore

#25. 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

#26. The only guide which I feel that I can follow is not the fluctuating dicta of those who are victors in the battle for popularity at a given moment, but my own understanding of the American tradition in which I was brought up.

Jane Jacobs

#27. I find that comedy is my specialty, but drama is slowly starting to move up in that rank. I've always liked playing a character that has depth and that I'm able to bring my own niche to.

Texas Battle

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is loving myself 100%. And that's still a battle. I love myself, but sometimes you can be your own worst enemy. And I think I've been my worst enemy in life, because others haven't been able to do anything to me unless I allowed them to do it.

Mike Epps

#31. When I had independence, it was a constant battle within me to figure out when am I on my own. And also the insecurity that my life engendered, especially as a freelance cartoonist, kept me in a constant state of anxiety as to whether I am going to be able to meet my financial obligations.

Al Jaffee

#32. I was so tired of this ceaseless, day-to-day tug-of-war between my hormones and my head, my vanity and my virtue. I felt very much as though I were caught in the middle of some dreadful battle in which taking a side of my own would mean certain misery in either case.

Emily Tomko

#33. The field of battle is my temple. The swordpoint is my priest. The dance of death is my prayer. The killing blow is my release.

Sabaa Tahir

#34. Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.

Euripides

#35. It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

Thomas Paine

#36. Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise.

David Bowie

#37. Sometimes the only option is to raise the stakes, to throw yourself the other way, to force your opponent further down the path they've chosen, further than they might want to go.

Mark Lawrence

#38. The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.

Johnny Cash

#39. Maybe love is a risk, but it's a risk I'm willing to take and as you said, it's not a choice. I never thought I would, never thought I could love someone like that but I fell in love with you. I fought it. It's the first battle I didn't mind losing.

Cora Reilly

#40. Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#41. There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.

Mario Batali

#42. The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.

Jerry A. Coyne

#43. 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

#44. Oh, I thought. It's on, bitch!

Richelle Mead

#45. The battle against the devil, which is the principal task of Saint Michael the Archangel, is still being fought today, because the devil is still alive and active in the world.

Pope John Paul II

#46. Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

George S. Patton

#47. I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

George S. McGovern

#48. 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

#49. 'Revelations' is one of the most important pieces to the African American arts. It assesses the hope and despair of a people and overcoming the struggle with our faith.

Robert Battle

#50. Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory ... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.

Alfred Adler

#51. We have found that it is easier for men to die together on the field of battle than it is for them to live together at home in peace.

Harry S. Truman

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. Faith is a vulnerable thing, not a battle.

David Bazan

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. The thundering line of battle stands, And in the air Death moans and sings: But Day shall clasp him with strong hands, And Night shall fold him in soft wings.

Julian Grenfell

#59. Certainly the soda companies, the junk food companies fought hard against this and today's agreement doesn't mean the battle is over, we still have to pass this bill.

Don Williams

#60. Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion.

Charles Caleb Colton

#61. There's nay shame to ha' fallen in battle, mo caraidh," he said softly. "The greatest of warriors may be overcome.

Diana Gabaldon

#62. Christianity has secured for itself a continuing place, at the cost of surrendering the crucial battle field.

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