Our Battles Quotes

#1. We don't get to choose our battles.

John Scalzi

#2. The Negro people of America ... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty .

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#3. May God fight our battles for us.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. You don't want to be anywhere near one of our battles. I don't even want to be near our battles. Unfortunately, the evil idiots usually don't give me a choice. -

James Patterson

#5. Beside, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone.

Patrick Henry

#6. This is America, and we don't restrict our battles over people's sex lives to 11 months a year

Gail Collins

#7. Delicate in every way but one
God knows we like archaic kinds of fun
Chance is the only game I play with, baby
We let our battles choose us.

Lorde

#8. Girl or boy, we fight our battles,' he said, 'but the gods let us choose our weapons.' He pointed to the spear, then to my mother's tears, and I picked up the spear. 'I told you she was mine,' my father said, and took me.

Anonymous

#9. We poor tellers of tales have our moments too, it seems. Like great generals sitting upon horses upon the tops of hills and throwing troops into the arena, we throw the little soldier words into our battles.

Sherwood Anderson

#10. No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.

Tiffany Thornton

#11. It's not okay to send a feeble kid out to fight our battles, and it's not okay to push people around like pawns on a fuckin chessboard and it's not okay giving orders to kill like a Mafia boss.

Stephen King

#12. Even in the most uneventful of our lives, we are called upon to choose our battles...

Arundhati Roy

#13. Our battles are first won or lost in the secret places of our will in God's presence, never in full view of the world.

Oswald Chambers

#14. In all of our battles, let's roar with the conquering powers of love and determination.

D. Allen Miller

#15. Our lives were short, no more than a blink to the foes we fought, but we were fertile. Fathers fought our battles, but it was our mothers who won the war.

Brian Staveley

#16. We've all got to remember to pick our battles carefully, to be prepared to lose small ones, and to hold out for big ones.

Margaret Kennedy

#17. Girl or boy, we fight our battles. But the God's let us choose our weapons.

George R R Martin

#18. We all have our battles. We get past them the best we can by putting one foot in front of the other. Looking back doesn't do anything but make it hurt a little more.

Harper Sloan

#19. Whether elected or appointed, public officials serve those who put and keep them in office. We cannot depend upon them to fight our battles.

Charles Hamilton Houston

#20. We must conserve our strengths for the battles we can win.

David Henry Hwang

#21. Some of the hardest battles we fight are those against the demons of our past, over which we have no control.

Charles F. Glassman

#22. 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

#23. We honor our heroic and patriotic dead by being true men, as true men by faithfully fighting the battles of our day as they fought the battles of their day.

David McMurtrie Gregg

#24. We have so many battles going on in America today that we should be a people of prayer. Our government needs prayer. Our leaders need prayer. Our schools need prayer. Our youth need our prayers. Our families need our prayers.

Billy Graham

#25. Good health is about being able to fully enjoy the time we do have. It is about being as functional as possible throughout our entire lives and avoiding crippling, painful and lengthy battles with disease. There are many better ways to die, and to live.

T. Colin Campbell

#26. As we face our vulnerability and weakness, there are things you and I should pray for regularly. We should pray for purity of desire, wisdom to recognize the enemy's tricks, and strength to fight the battles we can't avoid.

Paul David Tripp

#27. There is a speculative battle innate to imagination this much we know, yet let us not 'bear the wounds'2 of battles' avoided. Petrified imaginaries are the scars of our aversion; calcified thought coagulated into magical formulas of destructive equivalence.

Anonymous

#28. There is so much shame and guilt in our society, and I think it has deprived a lot of people from living fully. We are all facing battles ... We've all had someone who has hurt us. So let's talk about it.

Mary Lambert

#29. These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.

Michael N. Castle

#30. 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

#31. Our daily battles are to get traffickers behind bars, but the war for the fate of elephants is far away from the field and our sweat, it is a war of values vs greed, where more elephants can be killed by a vote than by any gun.

Ofir Drori

#32. 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

#33. Our battle of wills would never be complete. But there was no battle worth fighting if it would tear us apart.

Robert P. Rowe

#34. For over 221 years our Corps has done two things for this great Nation. We make Marines, and we win battles.

Charles C. Krulak

#35. But who am I to judge? We're all fighting our own battles, the best way we can.

Richelle Mead

#36. Passionate conviction ... sparks romances, wins battles, and drives people to pursue dreams others wouldn't dare. Belief in ourselves and in what is right catapults us over hurdles, and our lives unfold.

Howard Schultz

#37. People sense that our reaction to phenomena such as epidemics or religious war is not that different to how we reacted to plagues or to battles a millennia ago.

Karen Maitland

#38. Whether it's raising the minimum wage, fixing our broken immigration system or supporting an economic climate that gives our businesses that chance to succeed, I hope to continue to fight these important battles on behalf of my constituents.

Joseph P. Kennedy III

#39. The only battles we face in love are the battle to know our worth and the battle to know when our boundaries need to be protected.

Shannon L. Alder

#40. Shakespeare cared little for the State, the source of all our judgments, apart from its shows and splendours, its turmoils and battles, its flamings out of the uncivilized heart.

William Butler Yeats

#41. In life, some of the toughest battles we face are in between our own two ears.

Christian Cianci

#42. 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

#43. We all have our own battles to fight, and sometimes we have to go it alone. I'm stronger than you think, you'd be surprised.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#44. It is unfortunately true that our generation and that of your parents have left you with a big mess that will now be yours to clean up: wars, budget challenges, pollution, global warming, battles of health care, natural disasters. They're all there for you. We're willing those to you. Are you ready?

John Morgridge

#45. In our lives we face so many wars in which each of them has so many battles. all we go through based on our believe we will live better when we win them. there are no hard battles or easy battles ... they are all the same. however in each war we go through, the first battle is the hardest.

Sameh Elsayed

#46. Tens of millions of Russian people died, fighting all sorts of Western expansionism. They defeated Nazism. They helped to liberate much of our world from colonialism. Of course the West never forgave Russia for fighting the epic battles against its expansionism and colonialism.

Andre Vltchek

#47. If people want to believe that our ancestors were riding around on dinosaurs or that the protracted, increasing, and devastating warming of the Earth is just nature doing its thing - I guess I feel I have more useful battles to fight.

Michael Specter

#48. Prayer and holiness are learned in a similar way as commitments are made, habits are formed and battles are fought against a real opponent (Satan, in this case), who with great cunning plays constantly on our weak spots.

J.I. Packer

#49. Ah hon, we all have our own demons to fight, guardians or not.

C.K. Dawn

#50. The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed,
Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless creed:
'T was red with the blood of freemen and white with the fear of the foe;
And the stars that fight in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know.

Julia Ward Howe

#51. Our strength for labor is hidden even from ourselves - until we venture forth to fight the Lord's battles,

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#52. Ender, for the past few months you have been the battle commander of our fleets. This was the Third Invasion. There were no games, the battles were real, and the only enemy you fought was the buggers.

Orson Scott Card

#53. And it's often in those battles that we are most alive: it's on the frontlines of our lives that we earn wisdom, create joy, forge friendships, discover happiness, find love, and do purposeful work. If you want to win any meaningful kind of victory, you'll have to fight for it.

Eric Greitens

#54. As our God Most High fights, we flourish. As err his people flourish, our God strikes the killing blow. The battles in heaven are seen on earth, and the battles of earth do not escape the notice of heaven. We flourish when we are one with each other and with heaven's purpose.

Lisa Bevere

#55. 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

#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. 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

#58. From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, We will fight our country's battles in the air, on land and sea. First to fight for right and freedom, and to keep our honor clean, We are proud to claim the title of United States Marines. - Marine Corps Hymn

Tom Clancy

#59. And who had the honor to be, as a child, the play-fellow of our king, Louis XIII, whom God preserve! Sometimes their play degenerated into battles, and in these

Alexandre Dumas

#60. That night I did it. I used a utility knife from our garage. It was amazing. For that brief moment, all the tension, anxiety, stress I put on myself disappeared. It went up in a cloud of smoke and my head was finally clear after months of endless internal battles.

S.M. Koz

#61. Nature battles against us sometimes, and it can be hard. Our souls seek a soul mate and our bodies seek to procreate. You need to be wise and self controlled and not put yourself in a place where nature might overcome your commonsense.

M.H. Strom

#62. Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#63. We conservatives can win the ideological battles on a level playing field. Our ideas are better. Given fair elections based on contributions from regular voters, instead of $100,000 checks from business-as-usual special interests, we will prevail.

John McCain

#64. 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

#65. It is not easy to shut out the world, set aside a few minutes by yourself, and spend time in God's Word and prayer. But it is essential if we are to grow in our relationship with God and be strengthened for the battles ahead. Don't delay. Begin now to spend time alone with God every day.

Billy Graham

#66. Do you think that they, with their Battles, Famine, Black Death and Serfdom, were less enlightened than we are, with our Wars, Blockade, Influenza, and Conscription.

T.H. White

#67. Without darkness, we may never know how bright the stars shine. Without battles, we could not know what victory feels like. Without adversity, we may never appreciate the abundance in our lives. Be thankful, not only for the easy times, but for every experience that has made you who you are.

Julie-Anne

#68. 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

#69. My Akri says that tragedy and adversity are the stones we sharpen our swords against ao that we can fight new battles.- Simi

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#70. Rather than fight the same tired battles that have dominated Washington for decades, it's time to try something new. Let's invest in our people without leaving them a mountain of debt. Let's meet our responsibility to the citizens who sent us here. Let's try common sense.

Barack Obama

#71. When we can overcome our own personal battles, we can live confidently in situations we would have otherwise been too weak to handle.

Tanya R. Liverman

#72. Our character isn't defined by the battles we win or lose, but by the battles we dare to fight.

Robert Beatty

#73. we fight every battle with our imaginations: the battles within, the battles in the world beyond. This is the truth of command, and a warrior must learn command, of oneself and of others. It

Steven Erikson

#74. The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.

Juan Williams

#75. Always
in the middle
of our bloodiest battles
you lay down your arms
like flowering mines
to conqueror me home,
-Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde

#76. Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.

Blaise Pascal

#77. I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight.

Anthony Horowitz

#78. Our faith is built in the dark, in the valleys, and during the back-breaking battles in life.

Dana Arcuri

#79. Ultimately these battles are about females, which means that the fundamental difference between our two closest relatives is that one resolves sexual issues with power, while the other resolves power issues with sex.

Frans De Waal

#80. To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

Michel De Montaigne

#81. Only the defeated know LOVE.
because it is in the realm of love that we
fight our first battles - and generally lose ...

Paulo Coelho

#82. Almost all people suffer some form of intense inner pain at some times in their lives. The suffering might be depression, anxiety, substance abuse, or suicidal thoughts and it results from the battles we wage against our thoughts as we futilely try to get rid of our historie.

Steven C. Hayes

#83. The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.

Jackson Katz

#84. 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

#85. Most of life's battles are fought inside ourselves, & our greatest periods of growth usually come during crises.

Robert Scheid

#86. Prayer warriors need to put on the armor of God every day because the war is always going on. New battles continually need to be fought so that evil will be driven back, the kingdom of God advanced, and the will of God be done. Our spiritual armor not only protects us from the

Stormie O'martian

#87. The great battles, the battles that decide our destiny and the destiny of generations yet unborn, are not fought on public platforms, but in the lonely hours of the night and in moments of agony.

Samuel Logan Brengle

#88. For the moment, I am relying on the authority of Cahir aep Ceallach, the only soldier in our company-and Cahir confirmed that winning battles by means of a rapid escape from the battlefield is permissible from the point of view of most military doctrines.

Andrzej Sapkowski